Special Report: Death, drugs and detention in Japan’s immigration system

A medical treatment room is seen at the East Japan Immigration Center in UshikuBy Minami Funakoshi, Thomas Wilson, Ami Miyazaki and Mari Saito TOKYO (Reuters) – In the 13 months before Niculas Fernando died in a Japanese immigration detention center in 2014, three other men suffered the same fate. •  Anwar Hussin, 57, a Rohingya from Myanmar, died on Oct. 14, 2013, after suffering a stroke while being held at the same detention center as Fernando. •  Saeid Ghadimi, a 33-year-old Iranian, choked on food and died on March 29, 2014, at the East Japan Immigration Detention Center in Ibaraki prefecture, a sprawling complex set among rice paddies northeast of Tokyo.

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Toshiba to name bidder for healthcare unit Wednesday; Canon, Fujifilm lead: sources

A man walks past a Toshiba Corp logo displayed on one of its television sets in Tokyo, JapanTOKYO (Reuters) – Toshiba Corp plans an extraordinary executive meeting on Wednesday, indicating the troubled conglomerate will settle on a preferred bidder for its healthcare unit, two people with knowledge of the process said on Monday. Canon Inc and Fujifilm Holdings Corp are considered the front-runners with the highest bids, three people familiar with the matter told Reuters. A Toshiba spokesman had no comment on the sale process. (Reporting by Junko Fujita and Kentaro Hamada; Additional reporting by Emi Emoto; Editing by William Mallard)

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2012 broke disability ‘taboo’ for British sailor

By Alexander Smith LONDON (Reuters) – This year’s Paralympics in Rio will be different from previous competitions for British sailing gold medalist Helena Lucas as a taboo was broken when the Games “came home” to London in 2012. “Up until the London Games it was a bit of a taboo subject and people would be embarrassed to ask you about your disability or to chat to you about it,” Lucas, who was born without thumbs and only has the use of two fingers on both hands, told Reuters. “The British people made us feel like athletes and on a par with the Olympic athletes.
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