Reports that, on February 16, 1996, Japan's Ministry of Health and Welfare (MHW) acknowledged responsibility for the disaster in July 1993 in which two-fifths of Japan's 5,000 hemophiliacs were infected with HIV. Naoto Kan's apology to a group of hemophiliacs and relatives of AIDS victims; The discovery of files which led to a perjury charge against Atsuaki Gunji; Murder charges brought against Takeshi Abe who headed the MHW AIDS study group.