11.   TV Asahi is a Tokyo-based television network affiliated with national broadcaster Asahi Broadcasting Corp. based in Osaka.

12.   One-by-one, national broadcasters around the world have hammered out deals with Kirch to buy the rights to show the games.

13.   Other bullet train services were to run at one-third of their normal rates, national broadcaster NHK said.

14.   Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori was meeting with a team of crisis-response officials, national broadcaster NHK said.

15.   Police raided the Saitama government office and the headquarters of the developer Tuesday, national broadcaster NHK reported.

16.   A local man told national broadcaster NHK that someone had tasted the curry before it was taken to the festival site and detected nothing unusual.

17.   A reporter with national broadcaster NHK described an acrid smell coming from the site.

18.   A reporter with national broadcaster NHK described an acrid smell coming from the site of the blaze.

19.   An organization of European national broadcasters which had used those transmission facilities expressed concern about the attack.

20.   An unidentified man stabbed three children, one fatally, at a residence on the northern island of Hokkaido, national broadcaster NHK television reported Wednesday.