Kyodo said the passenger train was moving slowly because of the heavy snow on the tracks, and the derailment caused no injuries.
In a similar payoff scandal, four executives of Mitsubishi Motors were arrested in October on suspicion of paying more than nine million yen to Tei and another sokaiya gangster since 1995, Kyodo said.
The Kyodo report said the Chinese officials had called it an "emergency decision" made by a local commander.
Among individual stocks, Tokyo Electric Power Co. jumped 4.3 percent after the utility announced it will join Hitachi Ltd. to set up a new company to export electricity systems, Kyodo News said.
The expert panel found no clear direct link between the vaccines and the deaths but said further studies were needed, Kyodo news agency said.
Mr Abe offered a "masakaki" decorated wooden stick, inscribed with his name and title, Kyodo News agency said.
Japanese F-2 fighter jets were scrambled, as the Russian Su-27 planes flew south over the Sea of Japan before turning back to the north, Japan's Kyodo news agency said.
The US Marine Corps in Okinawa went on maximum alert following the suspected terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, the Kyodo news agency said quoting a US military official.
China's Defence Ministry immediately refuted a report on Monday by Japan's Kyodo news agency that said unnamed "senior Chinese military officials" admitting recently, and for the first time, that a Chinese warship did lock weapons-guiding radar on a Japanese destroyer on 30 January.
"If Beijing had called them North Korean nationals, the case could not have been resolved, " he said, according to Kyodo news agency.
The cause of the power failure was still being investigated, as Tepco had made restoring power the priority, spokesman Masayuki Ono said, according to Kyodo news agency.
An opinion poll published on June 27th by Kyodo, a news agency, said 80% of respondents were unenthused by Mr Ozawa's threat to establish a new party.
Still, Ichiro's march toward these milestones, official and unofficial, figures to stoke enormous interest in Japan, said Keizo Konishi, a reporter with Kyodo News who has covered Ichiro for the past 20 years.
Kyodo News agency, citing unidentified government sources, said on Tuesday that defence officials were looking into basing fighter jets closer to the disputed island chain, utilising a runway on a small island south of Okinawa.
Among individual stocks, Japan's Komatsu rose 2 percent after the heavy machinery maker said it will start selling automatic bulldozers in North America in June, Kyodo News reported.
Southern Metropolis Daily notes that when Chinese reporters laughed at a question by a correspondent of Japan's Kyodo News on the possibility of Beijing's diplomacy becoming "more aggressive", Fu Ying said the laughs did not reflect the majority of views in China.
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