21.   According to a study conducted by the metropolitan government in October, the percentage of sufferers has doubled over the last decade and continues to rise.

22.   Financial shares were also hurt by news that the Tokyo metropolitan government is considering a new corporate tax on major banks.

23.   Financial shares were hurt by news that the Tokyo metropolitan government is considering a new corporate tax on major banks.

24.   Hiroaki Kojima, a spokesman for the Bureau of Labor and Economic Affairs at the metropolitan government confirmed Tuesday that the complaint was filed.

25.   Meanwhile, Cosmo official Aikawa said Tokyo Gov. Yukio Aoshima has in principle approved the disbursement of funds from the metropolitan government coffers.

26.   On Monday, the Seoul metropolitan government starting barring vendors from hawking their wares in downtown districts.

27.   One-third of Japanese women responding to a survey said they had been battered by their husbands of partners, the Tokyo metropolitan government said Thursday.

28.   Shares had been hit by worries about the possible introduction of a new bank tax by the Tokyo metropolitan government.

29.   Shares in banks were hurt by news that the Tokyo metropolitan government plans a new corporate tax on major lenders.

30.   The bomb exploded just outside the Lhasa city metropolitan government office, on a main shopping street near the old section of the city, it said.