Japan payout over tainted blood
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Japanese lawmakers pass a bill compensating people infected with hepatitis C by tainted blood products.
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Japanese conglomerate Sumitomo Corp and UK metals broker Credit Lyonnais Rouse today settled their $1.1bn (Â£600m) action, drawing a line under a rogue trader scandal that shook the world&#39;s biggest metals market in the 1990s.
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By Natalie Obiko Pearson, Associated Press, 10/30/2004 01:52. TOKYO  A body resembling a Japanese hostage held by Islamic militants has been found in Iraq, the government announced Saturday, and officials
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FORMER shipyard workers at risk from a killer disease were today thrown a lifeline which could lead to pay-outs worth tens of thousands of pounds.
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ATHENS - After seeing American Brendan Hansen take both of his breaststroke world records away last month, Japan&#39;s Kosuke Kitajima got the ultimate revenge by sweeping both Olympic breaststroke gold medals.
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OTTAWA (CP) - The federal government says it will open negotiations on compensating the forgotten victims of the tainted blood scandal - those infected with hepatitis C before 1986 or after 1990.
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Japan's beleaguered government overcame opposition hurdles early Friday and pushed through legislation aimed at cleaning up a major political scandal that culminated earlier this week with the suicide of the agriculture minister.
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Sumitomo Corp. and Credit Lyonnais Rouse Ltd. settled the Japanese company&#39;s $1.1 billion claim the metals brokerage dishonestly aided Yasuo Hamanaka, who tried to corner the copper market in the 1990s.
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Japan&#39;s trade surplus rose by 8.8% in October from a year earlier, to 1.164 trillion yen ($11.32bn; Â£6.02bn). The rise was above market expectations, because of one-off exports of vessels, the Ministry of Finance said.
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Hoping to set the tone for this week&#39;s 50-nation Iraq reconstruction donors&#39; conference, Japan announced Tuesday three new projects worth a total of roughly US$14 million (euro 11.
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Experts say patients given blood contaminated with the human form of mad cow disease face substantial risk.
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Japan's government rushed to clean up a damaging political scandal Friday, pushing bills to fix pension system errors through parliament's lower house and replacing a Cabinet minister who committed suicide.
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Japan on Wednesday pledged to disburse $40 million (4.4 billion yen) in promised aid to Iraq to ensure that democratic elections slated for early next year get the country back on its feet.
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Japanese health officials confirm their first case of variant CJD, the human form of mad cow disease.
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China is to compensate 19 people who caught HIV from a hospital blood transfusion, in a landmark case.
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Japan scrambled on Friday to check a  report that an Asian body had been found in Iraq after a  deadline expired for the beheading of a Japanese youth whose  captors had demanded that Tokyo withdraw its troops.
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Japanese hepatitis patients on Thursday  rejected a government compensation proposal in a high-profile  scandal over tainted blood, a move that could further erode  Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda's falling support rate.