41.   The Tokyo metropolitan government, which is in charge of oveseeing religious activities in the capital, has the authority to seek court approval to disband religious organisations.

42.   The Tokyo metropolitan government has introduced a new policy banning foreign nationals from promotion to managerial positions in the government office, the Daily Yomiuri said Sunday.

43.   The Tokyo metropolitan government plans to order Cosmo Credit Corp. to suspend part of its businesss, Jiji Press reported.

44.   Within hours, a mail bomb exploded in the Tokyo metropolitan government building, injuring a secretary and a cleaning worker.

45.   Jiji said the company and the Tokyo metropolitan government would announce full details of the project next week.

46.   On the same day, a parcel bomb addressed to Tokyo Governor Yukio Aoshima explodes in the metropolitan government building.

47.   Public health officials from the metropolitan government and the local authority have conducted a series of inspections of the hospital.

48.   Takashimaya was suspended from Tokyo metropolitan government tenders for two months in April following allegations of bid rigging with other stores.

49.   The district court decision was a response to a legal action brought in June by the Tokyo prosecutors office and the Tokyo metropolitan government demanding the sect be disbanded.

50.   The decisions by the Japanese authorities, and particularly by the Tokyo metropolitan government, met with praise from analysts here.