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(Japan Economic Newswire Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) TOKYO, Nov. 27_(Kyodo) _ ---------- Police mulls urging removing info from online marijuana seed ads
TOKYO - The National Police Agency is considering urging Internet service providers to remove information that may lead to marijuana abuse from online marijuana seed advertisement, agency sources said Thursday.
The sale of marijuana seeds is legal, but the current marijuana propagation in Japan, particularly among younger generations, is partly attributed to such sales as the buyers in many cases grow the seeds for abuse.
---------- 1 Japanese killed, another Japanese hurt in India attacks
TOKYO - One Japanese person was killed in a shootout in Mumbai and another was injured, the Foreign Ministry said Thursday.
Japanese trading house Marubeni Corp. said the person killed was an employee of an affiliate but the identity of the victim is unknown.
---------- U.N. chief condemns attacks in India
NEW YORK - U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday criticized shootings and blasts in India's financial capital of Mumbai, which killed and wounded a large number of people.
"Such violence is totally unacceptable," the secretary general said in a statement.
---------- Police obtain arrest warrant for ex-official of Chongryon affiliate
TOKYO - Police obtained an arrest warrant Thursday for a former official of an affiliate of the pro-Pyongyang General Association of Korean Residents in Japan, or Chongryon, on suspicion of violating the certified tax accountant law, investigative sources said.
The former official is suspected of conducting tax accountant business without the license of a certified tax accountant.
---------- Aso, ruling parties to confirm Diet extension to Dec. 25
TOKYO - Prime Minister Taro Aso is expected to confirm with the ruling parties Thursday a plan to extend the current extra Diet session to Dec. 25 to ensure the parliamentary passage of a bill to continue Japan's antiterrorism refueling missing in the Indian Ocean, lawmakers said.
After a meeting with Hiroyuki Hosoda, secretary general of his Liberal Democratic Party, and LDP Diet affairs panel chief Tadamori Oshima on the plan to extend the session beyond the scheduled end on Nov. 30, Aso will meet Akihiro Ota, head of the LDP's coalition partner New Komeito party, they said.
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