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2009/07/03 20:34
Police investigating the death of a 60-year-old man whose partially mummified body was found in Odawara last month have arrested a 55-year-old construction worker living in Shizuoka Prefecture on suspicion of murder.
A fire broke out at a building housing a confectionery store in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward, killing the 86-year-old owner.
The Lower House on Friday passed a bill to ease standards of recognition for Minamata disease by including more symptoms to extend financial assistance to patients currently not receiving aid and forwarded the bill to the Upper House.
The Finance Ministry released its findings of an audit aimed at identifying wasteful spending in the 2009 budget.
Police arrested a journalist for the evening print newspaper Yukan Fuji on suspicion of secretly filming up the skirt of a high school girl aboard a train.
810 people gathered in New York to set a new world record for the largest air guitar jam session.
Fifty teams from around the world took part in the World Cup of swamp soccer in Scotland.
Kim Jong Seoung, the former agent of South Korean actress Jang Ja Yeon who committed suicide in March, was extradited from Japan and arrested in-flight by South Korean authorities.
Inspections turned up about 25,000 cracks attributed to metal fatigue along the Metropolitan Expressway.
Police arrested a city councilman in Sagamihara, Kanagawa Prefecture, on suspicion of assaulting a restaurant employee in Machida, Tokyo.
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