Japan news 16/4

• Police boost force guarding Olympic relay in Nagano to 1,500 members
• Traffic accident fatalities plunge to 125 during spring safety campaign
• JAL to pay 11.1 billion yen in fines to U.S. Justice Department over air cargo cartel
• Police to offer 100,000 yen reward for information on illegal guns
• Knife-wielding patient slashes medical workers at Tokyo clinic
• U.S. MPs ignore Japanese cops' right to question American criminal suspects
• Tchaikovsky gets spotlight at Tokyo Opera Nomori
• Eating dairy products drastically increases prostate cancer risk
• Peru Supreme Court upholds 6 year sentence of former President Fujimori
• Police search for suicidal American college student missing in Hokkaido
• **Trio prosecuted for illegal love hotel operation
• TV economist Uekusa's groping conviction upheld
• **Public smoking ban in Kanagawa targets restaurants, pachinko parlors
• Cops failed to report missing girl's emergency call