41.   Prosecutors raid scandal-plagued Finance Ministry.

42.   Prosecutors raided the Yamaichi main office in Tokyo Wednesday, a company spokesman said.

43.   The case began more than two years ago, when Bavarian prosecutors raided CompuServe offices in Munich.

44.   The scandal surrounding Koike widened Wednesday when prosecutors raided the head office of Yamaichi Securities Co., another major brokerage.

45.   The scandal surrounding Koike widened Wednesday when prosecutors raided the head office of Yamaichi Securities Co., another top brokerage.

46.   Tokyo prosecutors Wednesday raided the head office of Yamaichi Securities Co., a major Japanese brokerage, in a widening payoffs scandal to a corporate racketeer.

47.   Yamaguchi had said he was willing to cooperate with investigators until last Tuesday when prosecutors raided his home and offices.

48.   It is quite unusual for prosecutors to raid public bodies in a bid-rigging case.

49.   Japanese prosecutors raided the office of a lower house legislator in central Japan on Friday on suspicion that he helped supporters evade taxes, officials said.

50.   Last week, prosecutors also raided offices of Nippon Zoki Pharmaceutical Co., another importer of blood products, on suspicion of selling tainted blood products to Abe.