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POISONING

As many as 270 people in 21 prefectures in the country have become sick after eating bento meals supplied by Yoshidaya, based in the Aomori Prefecture city of Hachinohe.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Sep 24, 2023
Aomori bento maker banned from operations due to food poisoning
As many as 270 people in 21 prefectures in the country have become sick after eating bento meals supplied by Yoshidaya.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Mar 30, 2022
Anti-virus measures pushed down Japan food poisoning cases in 2021
The health ministry believes the remarkably low figure is due to improved hygiene management stemming from the plethora of measures introduced to curb the spread of COVID-19.
Japan Times
JAPAN / History / JAPAN TIMES GONE BY
Aug 8, 2021
Japan Times 1946: 'Perfect occupation' is MacArthur's goal
In 1946, Japan was still rebuilding after the war. Those steps would continue until 1971 when the country first attempted to float its currency on the global stage.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Oct 31, 2020
Calling out the U.S. military for ‘Poisoning the Pacific’
Journalist Jon Mitchell has spent 10 years probing the contamination of the Asia-Pacific region by the American and Japanese governments.
JAPAN
Jul 3, 2020
Over 3,400 students and teachers suffer food poisoning near Tokyo
More than 3,400 elementary and junior high school students and teachers have contracted food poisoning at 15 schools near Tokyo due to school lunches, local authorities said Thursday.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Jun 20, 2020
An aging sumo wrestler, food poisoning risks and safeguarding pets from COVID-19
Warning: A portion of this contribution deals with suicide, which some readers may find distressing.
WORLD
Dec 15, 2018
11 die and over 90 sickened after eating food at temple in India
Eleven people including two children died and more than 90 were hospitalized after consuming a religious food offering at a temple in the southern Indian state of Karnataka, police said on Saturday, calling it a suspected case of mass food poisoning.
COMMUNITY / Voices / OVERHEARD
Oct 27, 2018
Overheard in the newsroom
'I can confirm he (philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre) died from food poisoning, but I can't confirm he died after consuming rotten horse meat.'
Japan Times
WORLD
Oct 3, 2018
Ukraine minister says Sergei Skripal poisoning suspect helped Yanukovic flee in 2014
Ukraine's interior minister said on Tuesday a suspect in the Skripal poisoning case, working for Russian military intelligence, had been identified in Ukraine as a man who helped the former Ukrainian president flee to Russia in 2014.
ASIA PACIFIC
Sep 19, 2018
Alcohol poisoning kills at least 21 people in Malaysia, where cheap, homemade liquor is popular among migrant workers
Police in Malaysia are investigating a case of alcohol poisoning that killed at least 21 people, with dozens more hospitalized, most of them citizens of Asian nations, officials said on Wednesday.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Sep 17, 2018
Pussy Riot-linked anti-Kremlin activist seen doing better in German hospital after apparent poisoning in Moscow
An anti-Kremlin activist lost his sight, hearing and ability to walk in a suspected poisoning last week but is doing better since he arrived in Berlin for treatment, two friends said Sunday.
JAPAN
Sep 15, 2018
28 Mos Burger customers sickened in Tokyo, seven other prefectures last month: health ministry
Over two dozen Mos Burger customers came down with food poisoning last month after dining at its restaurants in Tokyo and seven other prefectures in eastern and central Japan, it has been learned.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jul 29, 2018
Ex-nurse in Yokohama arrested second time on poisoning charge as multiple deaths probed anew
In a serial murder case involving a Yokohama hospital, a former nurse has been arrested anew for allegedly poisoning a second patient at the hospital where she once worked.
JAPAN
Mar 13, 2018
Japan restaurant chain ordered to pay damages over raw-meat food poisoning deaths
The Tokyo District Court on Tuesday ordered restaurant chain operator Foods Forus Co. to pay ¥169 million ($1.58 million) to the families of three victims who died from food poisoning after eating raw meat at one of its barbecue restaurants in 2011.
JAPAN
Dec 30, 2017
Food poisoning sickens 70 at Kyoto hot springs inn
Food-poisoning hits 70 patrons of a hot springs inn in Kyoto, leaving about 8 people with confirmed norovirus infections.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Oct 12, 2017
Murdered North Korean Kim Jong Nam had $100,000 in backpack, police witness says
The half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un was carrying $100,000 in cash in his backpack at the time of his murder, the police officer investigating the case told a Malaysian court on Wednesday.
JAPAN
Sep 20, 2017
17 delicatessens in eastern Japan close over E. coli outbreak
An operator of delicatessens in eastern Japan said Wednesday it has closed all 17 of its stores after some locations were hit by an E. coli bacteria outbreak that has killed a 3-year-old girl and sickened 21 others.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Sep 13, 2017
E. coli-infected food bought at delicatessen in Gunma kills Tokyo girl
The Maebashi Municipal Government in Gunma Prefecture said Wednesday a 3-year-old girl has died after eating fried shrimp and bamboo shoots bought in August at a local delicatessen hit by an E. coli bacteria outbreak.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Aug 26, 2017
No toxic bacteria found in samples from Gunma factory linked to food-poisoning probe
The municipal government of Takasaki, Gunma Prefecture, said Saturday it did not find toxic bacteria in food samples taken from a local factory after potato salad produced there caused E. coli food poisoning earlier in the month.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Aug 23, 2017
Food processing plant probed over potato salad linked E. coli poisoning in Saitama, Gunma
The inspection was ordered after 10 people in Gunma and Saitama prefectures were found to have been infected with the O-157 strain of the E. coli bacteria.

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