31.   The Hanoi metropolitan government has pleaded for public cooperation in tracking down the culprits.

32.   The metropolitan government has jurisdiction over religious groups registered in Tokyo.

33.   Tokyo prosecutors and the metropolitan government recently submitted a request to a court to dissolve Aum.

34.   A mail bomb exploded in the Tokyo metropolitan government building here Tuesday afternoon, injuring at least two people, officials said.

35.   A senior Tokyo metropolitan government official has already visited Beijing and Seoul to explain the scrapping of the planned exposition.

36.   Five other in-patients at the same hospital also contracted the bacteria, but they were recovering, the metropolitan government official said.

37.   The order follows an action brought in June by the public prosecutors office and the Tokyo metropolitan government, which supervises the sect.

38.   The Tokyo metropolitan government ordered Cosmo Credit to suspend part of its business, in what analysts here thought was a temporary move.

39.   The Tokyo metropolitan government ordered Cosmo to halt business the same day.

40.   The Tokyo metropolitan government has jurisdiction over religious organisations in the area.