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Thursday, July 31, 2008

Japan Company Raided Over Possible Nuclear Exports, Kyodo Says

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By Taku Kato

July 31 (Bloomberg) -- Horkos Corp., a machine tool maker in Hiroshima, western Japan, was raided by police because of suspicion it may have exported machinery that can be used to develop nuclear weapons without approval, Kyodo News reported.

Three calls to the company's headquarters went unanswered when Bloomberg News tried to phone the number.

To contact the reporter on this story: Taku Kato in Tokyo at tkato6@bloomberg.net.


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