31.   He said he needed time to consider the charge, formally defined as professional negligence resulting in death.

32.   Earlier this month, former health and welfare ministry official Akihito Matsumura was arrested on suspicion of professional negligence resulting in death.

33.   They face charges of professional negligence resulting in death, the reports said.

34.   They were also accused of professional negligence resulting in death.

35.   With the mass questioning, prosecutors are in the final stage of charging the former bureaucrat with professional negligence, the Mainichi said.

36.   Japanese prosecutors on Wednesday charged the former head of a government-led task force on AIDS with professional negligence, Japanese television and news agencies reported.

37.   Japanese public prosecutors Wednesday charged three former presidents of pharmaceutical company Green Cross Corp. with professional negligence resulting in death, news reports said.

38.   Kawano and the two former presidents, Renzo Matsushita and Tadakazu Suyama, are suspected of professional negligence resulting in death.

39.   Japanese public prosecutors charged three former presidents of pharmaceutical company Green Cross Corp. Wednesday with professional negligence resulting in death, news reports said.

40.   NHK said Kawano and the two former presidents of the Osaka-based company would be charged with professional negligence resulting in death.