Mr Sonoda had received an official warning, Kyodo news agency reported, as had other coaching staff.
One shook the Ibaraki Prefecture mid-morning Monday registering a 5.0 on the Richter scale, Kyodo news reported.
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Latest estimates of the Japanese earthquake put the mounting death toll above 1 , 800, Kyodo News reports.
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Mr Abe offered a "masakaki" decorated wooden stick, inscribed with his name and title, Kyodo News agency said.
He apologised and has received an official warning, the Kyodo news agency reported, as had other coaching staff.
From Kyodo News: The containment vessel for No. 3 reactor may be damaged.
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Japanese officials were meanwhile cited as saying by the Kyodo news agency that at least 14 Japanese nationals were still missing.
"If Beijing had called them North Korean nationals, the case could not have been resolved, " he said, according to Kyodo news agency.
"The government is considering the extent of what can be disclosed, " Kyodo news agency quoted Japanese Defence Minister Itsunori Onodera as saying.
Earlier today, the Japanese newspaper Kyodo News increased the fog by omitting critical information i n a story about the crisis in Fukushima.
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The expert panel found no clear direct link between the vaccines and the deaths but said further studies were needed, Kyodo news agency said.
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.
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.
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.
Among individual stocks, Japanese vehicle maker Mitsubishi Motors Corp. jumped more than 16 percent after raising its group net profit forecast for the year ending March 2013, Kyodo News reported.
Okinawa Governor Hirokazu Nakaima has also met Japanese Defence Minister Satoshi Morimoto to protest against the incident, saying the alleged crime was "extremely heinous and despicable", Kyodo news agency reports.
"The ruling may seem severe, but the damage to the feelings of the victim and residents is more severe, " Judge Hideyuki Suzuki was quoted by Kyodo news agency as saying.
However, shares in Softbank added 2% after Kyodo News reported the firm's mobile-carrier unit won key spectrum which will allow it to better compete against larger rivals NTT DoCoMo and KDDI.
The two countries have held three rounds of talks since the row erupted, Japan's Kyodo news agency reports, with the latest taking place in Wuhan in China on Sunday and Monday.
Restarting cooling to the spent fuel pool at reactor 4 had been of particular urgency for Tepco as it had the highest number of fuel assemblies stored there, Kyodo news agency reported.
"Obuchi was never anything special, but those two were always told they were geniuses from the time they were young, " says Kenji Goto, a veteran political writer for the Kyodo News Service.
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.
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.
Meanwhile, the Nikkei stock index started Monday down over 500 points as the country tries to grasp with the worst natural disaster in a generation, Kyodo News agency reported at the opening bell.
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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.
Japanese police searched the head offices of Mitsubishi Electric and Toshiba on Tuesday for evidence linked to a widening racketeering scandal that led to the arrest on Monday of two top executives, Kyodo news agency reported.
Kazuyo Miyashita, 40, her two daughters Misa, 17, and Sayo, 14, and her son Daiki, 11, died at a hospital Saturday night of carbon-monoxide poisoning after their vehicle got buried in the snow, according to Kyodo news service.
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