Key words : 128 195
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Officials in Ishikawa Prefecture, central Japan, say 128 people have been confirmed dead and 195 remain unaccounted for after the powerful earthquake on New Year's Day.
Weather officials are warning of traffic disruptions as heavy snowfall is expected to blanket disaster-hit areas.
They say the prefecture is likely to get up to 60 centimeters of snow in the 24 hours through Monday morning.
The agency is warning of traffic disruptions, due to icy roads and snow accumulations.
Rescue operations have been continuing, despite the cold and rainy weather. Police officers managed to pull a woman in her 90s out from under a collapsed house.
She was saved 124 hours after the magnitude 7.6 quake.
A member of the emergency rescue team said, "This is a very rare case, as it is the rescue of a person alive quite a long time after an earthquake. We are fully aware that such cases can happen, so we will carry on looking for others without giving up."
Nearly 30,000 people in the prefecture have taken shelter.
Officials are advising individuals in the evacuation sites to take preventative measures against infectious diseases. They say cases of the coronavirus have been reported.
About 20,000 households are dealing with power outages, and 66,000 are without water.
The Japan Pharmaceutical Association has dispatched a so-called "mobile pharmacy" to provide medication in hard-hit Suzu City. The vehicle is equipped with shelves to store pills and devices to package them.
A pharmacist who was heading for the city said, "There must be people who are feeling unwell or have run out of their usual medication. We will do our utmost to protect the health of people in the area."
Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio has said that he will continue to provide seamless support for mid- and long-term recovery efforts.
Kishida said, "We must rebuild the lives and jobs of people affected by the quake as we move forward with recovery efforts. We must be considerate of the circumstances facing each and every person."
The Japanese government intends to designate the earthquake as a "disaster of extreme severity" within a week. The designation will make it possible to increase state subsidies for restoring public facilities and farmland.
Key words : food shop nakanoto
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Reopened food shop in Nakanoto, Japan, draws people in need
People in central Japan are flocking to a restaurant and food shop chain that reopened following the devastating New Year's Day earthquake. As NHK World's Takahashi Naoya reports, access to a warm meal is proving to be a big comfort to people in need.
Key words : tokyo prosecutor arrested
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Tokyo prosecutors have arrested Lower House lawmaker Ikeda Yoshitaka on suspicion of violating the Political Funds Control Law. The prosecutors allege that Ikeda conspired with his policy secretary to falsify political funds reports.
Ikeda is a member of the LDP's largest faction, which was once led by the late Prime Minister Abe Shinzo.
The Abe faction is suspected of having failed to include in its political funds reports kickbacks it paid to the offices of member lawmakers who sold tickets to fundraising events in excess of their quotas.
The special investigation squad raided Ikeda's offices on December 27.
Informed sources say that Ikeda's office is believed to have received kickbacks worth about 48 million yen, or over 331,000 dollars, from the faction during the five-year period leading up to 2022.
Investigators suspect that Ikeda conspired with his policy secretary, who was in charge of accounting, to falsify the organization's political funds reports.
Ikeda has been elected to the Lower House four times.
He served as state minister of education from October 2021 to August 2022.
The total amount of funds that the Abe faction used as slush funds is suspected to have reached around 600 million yen in total over the 5 years until 2022, including income from events that lawmakers didn't deliver to their factions.
Key words : tokyo prosecutor nikai
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NHK has learned that Tokyo prosecutors have questioned another high-ranking member of the main ruling Liberal Democratic Party on a voluntary basis in connection with a political fundraising scandal.
Nikai Toshihiro is a former secretary-general of the LDP, and heads the party's Nikai faction. The faction is said to have paid kickbacks to the offices of member lawmakers who sold tickets for fundraising events in excess of their quotas.
It has also been revealed that the offices of some lawmakers kept the excess revenues after selling the tickets, without handing them over to the faction.
Nikai's office is believed to be among those that held on to the funds, in the five years through 2022.
Neither the faction, nor the offices of the lawmakers concerned, are said to have reported the extra revenues in their political funding reports -- an action that would violate the law.
The office of the Nikai faction was raided last month on suspicion of violating the political funds control law.
Prosecutors also searched the office of the faction once led by the late Prime Minister Abe Shinzo over similar allegations. Senior members of the Abe faction have also been questioned on a voluntary basis.
Nikai had issued a statement following the raid, offering his apologies for causing trouble and concern. He said his faction will cooperate with prosecutors in good faith.
Key words : bangladesh about 2,000
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People in Bangladesh will vote in a general election on Sunday, amid an opposition boycott and fears of further unrest.
About 2,000 candidates are vying for 350 seats in the country's parliament. Votes are due to be counted as soon as the polling stations close on Sunday.
Supporters of opposition parties allege the votes will be rigged in favor of the ruling party of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. She has been in power for nearly 15 years.
Since last year, opposition supporters have repeatedly clashed with police during anti-government protests. Some members have turned violent, setting buses on fire.
On Friday, four people were killed when a train was set ablaze in an apparent attempt to sabotage the election.
Prime Minister Hasina has responded to the unrest with what some see as high-handed measures, including detaining senior opposition members.
Bangladesh was once known as one of the world's poorest countries. But in recent years it has achieved high economic growth.
Its population of 170 million people is seen as having a huge potential as a growth market. Japanese companies view the country as a promising investment destination.
Still, fears are mounting that Sunday's election could be followed by more political turmoil, and a further decline in public security.
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