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- Former DPJ bigwig Ichiro Ozawa, on trial for misappropriating political funds, told prosecutors that keeping ¥400-¥500 million in cash lying around “is not something that contradicts common sense.”
- During a visit to Thailand, trade minister Yukio Edano advised local officials to “strengthen levees and implement other effective flood countermeasures before the rainy season.”
- Foreign Minister Koichiro Gemba visited Afghanistan and called for the government to boost efforts “to eradicate corruption, promote the rule of law and improve governance.”
Not all smiles and sunshine
- A 65-year-old Japanese man was fined $2,500 by a court in Hawaii for hitting a Delta Air Lines cabin attendant—twice—on a flight from Tokyo to Honolulu. The man was allowed to attend his son’s wedding in Waikiki, though.
- Newly installed Justice Minister Toshio Ogawa said, “It isn’t in line with the spirit of the [capital punishment] law for the number of death row inmates to continue increasing without executions.”
- The government announced that it will rewrite relevant laws to enable JAXA to become involved “in the use of space for security purposes.”
- Meanwhile, a science ministry official said the space agency will begin studying the feasibility of a mission to Mars.
stats
- 113 Number of moves it took a computer program called “Bonkras” to defeat Japan Shogi Association chairman Kunio Yonenaga in a recent match in Tokyo
- 200 Estimated number of companies believed to have received shipments of “radioactive gravel” that had been stored near the Fukushima nuclear plant, according to government investigators
- 29.1 Percentage of college students who have failed to receive job offers ahead of graduation in March, the second highest figure on record, according to the labor ministry
- 23 Rank of Japan, out of 32 nations, in terms of “nuclear materials security conditions,” according to a US-based NGO
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