1.   Spokesman Toru Osumi said the ministry itself was not aware of the restrictions were being applied to doctors who came to help with quake relief.

2.   South Korea will send a second shipment of quake relief goods for the victims of the Kobe earthquake, the Foreign Ministry said Wednesday.

3.   Spokesman Toru Osumi said the ministry itself was unaware of the restrictions were being applied to doctors who came to help with quake relief.

4.   Unai is the first government employee to be designated as dying from overwork in quake relief, the personnel authority said.