Mr Sonoda had received an official warning, Kyodo news agency reported, as had other coaching staff.
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.
Japanese officials were meanwhile cited as saying by the Kyodo news agency that at least 14 Japanese nationals were still missing.
"The government is considering the extent of what can be disclosed, " Kyodo news agency quoted Japanese Defence Minister Itsunori Onodera as saying.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
FORBES: China Stocks Resilient Early Monday While Nikkei Below 10k
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.
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.
On July 5th Kyodo, a news agency, reported that 21 Chinese were among 27 foreign trainees who died last year on a government-sponsored skills-transfer scheme for developing countries that over the past four years has brought in an average of 94, 000 workers a year, mostly from China.
It is now considering lending more money to Burma by end of fiscal year 2012, according to news agency Kyodo.
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