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JAPAN: WASTE COMPANY BOSS SUICIDES WITH POISON

Mainichi Daily News

NIIGATA, Japan, 23 July 2000 -- The president of an industrial-waste disposal company that does business with Nisso Ltd., which allegedly exported hazardous waste to the Philippines last year, has killed himself in Niigata Prefecture, police said Saturday.

Police suspect Daisuke Kikuchi, 49, president of the Ichinoseki, Iwate Prefecture-based company, swallowed insecticide to kill himself.

Kikuchi's firm was being investigated on suspicion of burying plastics in its disposal site in Ichinoseki without permission.

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