31.   Footage on national broadcaster NHK showed investigators from the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office entering the Tokyo condominium where Miki lives.

32.   Hashimoto also called on the U.N. Security Council to again take up the Kashmir problem that divides the two countries to help reduce tension, national broadcaster NHK reported.

33.   He had blood on his face, but national broadcaster NHK cited officials at a nearby hospital as saying he suffered only a nick on the chin.

34.   He decided to sell his land because he was getting old and wanted to start a new life, he was quoted as saying by national broadcaster NHK.

35.   Hoping to fend off increasing competition from private networks, the Greek national broadcaster launched a new channel Monday with a greater emphasis on news and cultural programming.

36.   In his meeting with the former government heads, Li expressed concern over post-Cold War defense ties between the United States and Japan, national broadcaster NHK reported.

37.   In Niigata, independent Takahiro Kuroiwa edged runner-up Ichiro Tsukada from the LDP, national broadcaster NHK reported, citing exit poll results.

38.   Investigators also raided affiliated finance companies and the home of former LTCB President Katsunobu Onogi, Kyodo News agency and national broadcaster NHK reported.

39.   It broadcast an apology to its shareholders on the national broadcaster NHK.

40.   It also decided to expand public financing of jobs projects at businesses in these regions through government-linked financial institutions, national broadcaster NHK said.