31.   Japanese newspapers have reported that sect officials explicitly told police interrogators that they had seen the video at TBS offices.

32.   Japanese newspapers reported over the weekend that Hitachi also planned to eliminate tens of thousands of jobs, but the company made no announcement on Monday.

33.   Japanese newspapers reported the two banks will form an advisory panel to prepare for the possible merger.

34.   Japanese newspapers and television have reported that one suspected terrorist was overcome by gas and taken to hospital.

35.   Japanese newspapers likened him to a one-man Air Force.

36.   Japanese newspapers, with one exception, have obeyed Chinese instructions not to post reporters in Taiwan, in exchange for permission to open bureaus in Beijing.

37.   Last week a Japanese newspaper reported that Kokusai Securities Co. would buy Sanyo Securities, using money lent by Sanwa Bank Ltd.

38.   Last month another foreign reporter, from the Japanese newspaper Yomiuri Shimbun, was also charged with possessing state secrets and was deported.

39.   Last week, Japanese newspapers printed the text of a letter that President Bush sent to Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi before his visit to Tokyo last month.

40.   Most Japanese newspapers, though, have written little about it, concentrating instead on the housing lenders.