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Eel exec in label scam guilty, fined

The Tokyo District Court on Wednesday sentenced the former chairman of a food processing and sales company to a suspended two-year prison term for falsely labeling and selling Chinese eel as those raised in Japan. The court also ordered Hayama Nakamura,... ...full story at Japan Times

from Japan Times on Wed, Nov 04 2009

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