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“The Last Train from Hiroshima,” a new book about the atomic destruction of Hiroshima that has won critical acclaim with its heartbreaking portrayals of the bomb’s survivors also claims to reveal a secret accident with the atom bomb that killed one American and irradiated others and greatly reduced the weapon’s destructive power.

Three officials of FIS, an organization providing free or cheap accommodation to welfare recipients, have been reported to public prosecutors on suspicion of avoiding some 200 million yen in income tax.

Four men have died in unnatural circumstances after becoming acquainted with a 34-year-old woman, under arrest for alleged fraud concerning marriage, and police are now treating them as murder cases, they said Tuesday.

The Osaka District Court has sentenced a man to nine years in prison for swindling nearly 74 million yen out of the family of a missing 15-year-old girl by falsely claiming funds for search fees.

The Tokyo District Court has awarded an Osaka woman 1.65 million yen in a lawsuit against a Tokyo information service company that sold her ineffective tips for winning at pachinko.

According to the U.N. Office of Internal Oversight Services (OIOS) audit report, violations of internal regulations included falsifying billing statements, and unmonitored orders for U.N. printed material that were then dumped in storage.

Japan's version of Bernie Madoff. However, he only stole $2.5 billion, 20 times less than good-ole Bernie.

You cannot escape the warnings..the warnings...the warnings...

Actor Kenji Haga was acquitted Friday on charges of defrauding a man of 370 million yen and attempting to blackmail him into writing off 400 million yen worth of debts. The Osaka District Court handed down a not-guilty ruling for Haga, 47, as well as for former professional boxer Jiro Watanabe, 53, who was charged with conspiracy with Haga in the blackmail attempt.

Tetsuya Komuro, a top producer of Japanese pop music, front, sits inside a car as he heads to Osaka District Public Prosecutors Office in Osaka, western Japan Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2008. Japanese public broadcaster NHK says Komuro was arrested Tuesday by the Public Prosecutors Office in Osaka for alleged fraud

The Board of Audit has discovered that all 12 prefectural governments it randomly inspected misused a total of 500 million yen in central government subsidies. The prefectural governments were: Aomori, Aichi, Fukushima, Gifu, Gunma, Hokkaido, Iwate, Kyoto, Nagano, Oita, Tochigi and Wakayama.

Is anyone actually surprised by this?

A Hyogo Prefecture police officer is suspected of attempting to defraud an insurance company out of 700,000 yen by falsely claiming to have shot a hole in one at golf. Hole-in-one insurance is common in Japan, which an ace obliges the lucky golfer to wine and dine friends, and to provide them with memorial gifts.

After upholding Takafumi Horie's two-and-a-half year sentence for fraud last Friday, the Tokyo High Court decided today to grant bail, set at 600 million yen.