and land minister Kazuo Kitagawa, addresses a government meeting Tuesday on aid for condominium owners in the shoddy building scandal.

The seven complexes, sold by developer Huser Ltd., based in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward, were constructed using falsified data provided by architect Hidetsugu Aneha.

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