Japan's health ministry officials walk towards a plant operated by a subsidiary of Kobayashi Pharmaceutical Co. to conduct an on-site inspection in Kinokawa, south of Osaka, western Japan, Sunday, March 31, 2024. Japanese government health officials on Sunday inspected a factory producing health supplements linked to several deaths and the hospitalization of more than 100 others, one day after the authorities investigated another plant that manufactured the product. (Yohei Fukai/Kyodo News via AP)
Japan's health ministry officials walk into a plant operated by a subsidiary of Kobayashi Pharmaceutical Co. to conduct an on-site inspection in Kinokawa, south of Osaka, western Japan, Sunday, March 31, 2024. Japanese government health officials on Sunday inspected a factory producing health supplements linked to several deaths and the hospitalization of more than 100 others, one day after the authorities investigated another plant that manufactured the product. (Yohei Fukai/Kyodo News via AP)
Akihiro Kobayashi, president of Kobayashi Pharmaceutical Co., arrives at a news conference in Osaka, western Japan, Friday, March 29, 2024. In the week since a line of Japanese health supplements began being recalled, several people have died and more than 100 people were hospitalized as of Friday. The Osaka-based pharmaceutical company came under fire for not going public quickly with problems known internally as early as January. The first public announcement came March 22. (Yohei Fukuyama/Kyodo News via AP)
An employee of Kobayashi Pharmaceutical Co. speaks to media members outside a plant operated by its subsidiary after Japan's health ministry officials walked into the plant to conduct an on-site inspection in Kinokawa, south of Osaka, western Japan, Sunday, March 31, 2024. Japanese government health officials on Sunday inspected the factory producing health supplements linked to several deaths and the hospitalization of more than 100 others, one day after the authorities investigated another plant that manufactured the product. (Yohei Fukai/Kyodo News via AP)