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‘FAR-FETCHED’ TESTIMONY Ex-TEPCO vice president denies approving steps against tsunamiOctober 19, 2018 A former vice president of Tokyo Electric Power Co. on Oct. 19 denied a former subordinate’s testimony that the company approved additional anti-tsunami measures in 2008 based on the government’s new earthquake forecast.
5.5-BILLION-YEN SWINDLE Inmate believed to have hatched plot to swindle Sekisui HouseOctober 19, 2018 A 65-year-old inmate may have been the mastermind behind an elaborate real estate scam that swindled major developer Sekisui House Ltd. out of 5.55 billion yen ($48.8 million), investigators said.

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