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Japanese prosecutors made their first arrest Sunday in connection with a major political slush fund scandal that has rocked Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's already unpopular government. Tokyo ...
Shaimaa Khalil - Tokyo correspondent and Koh Ewe - BBC News January 27, 2025 at 3:35 AM Fuji TV's president Koichi Minato (left) and chairman Shuji Kano (right) bowed during the press conference ...
TOKYO (Reuters) -Yuichiro Tamaki, the head of the Japanese opposition party that has emerged as kingmaker as lawmakers select the next prime minister on Monday, said a tabloid report about his ...
On 8 December 2023 Kishida, as well as other members of the LDP, were questioned by opposition lawmakers during a meeting of the National Diet.According to initial public allegations, dozens of members of the Diet from the Seiwakai were suspected of collecting at least ¥100 million from fundraising and storing the money in slush funds, in violation of Japanese campaign finance and election law.
Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index for 2023 ranked Japan in the 16th position with a score of 73, a ranking it has maintained since 2021. [2] The Corruption Perceptions Index scores the public sector of 180 countries on a scale from scale from 0 ("highly corrupt") to 100 ("very clean").
In January 2021, Koki Maeda, a former member of 7 Men Samurai, stated through an interview with Arama! Japan that he was "certain" there were sexual relations between Kitagawa and Johnny's Jr. because he "had the privilege of deciding who deserved to debut". [17] Moments after the interview was published, Maeda recanted his statement.
Few in Japan want to believe national hero Shohei Ohtani could be accused of wrongdoing in the sports gambling scandal involving his ex-interpreter, Ippei Mizuhara. Japanese treat Shohei Ohtani ...
The cherry blossom scandal (Japanese: 桜を見る会問題, romanized: sakura wo miru kai mondai, lit. 'cherry blossom viewing party problem'), also known as the cherry blossom party scandal [ 1 ] or the cherry blossom viewing scandal , was a political scandal in Japan involving Shinzo Abe , the then- prime minister of Japan , and the ...