Two men believed to be journalists working for Nippon Television Network Corp. were confirmed dead Sunday after being taken to hospital from a mountain in Chichibu, Saitama Prefecture, which they had climbed to cover the fatal crash a week earlier of a rescue helicopter, police said.

Two male journalists working for Nippon Television Network Corp. were confirmed dead Sunday after being taken to hospital from a mountain in Chichibu, Saitama Prefecture, which they had climbed to cover the fatal crash a week earlier of a rescue helicopter, police said.

Lay judges who have served under the new criminal trial system since the first case in August last year have offered both positive and negative feedback, with 21 percent of respondents to a recent Kyodo News survey saying they had felt inducement by professional judges in coming to a judgment, the survey showed.
