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Japanese Prime Minister Suga Yoshihide has apologized for his son’s role in a growing scandal that is threatening to engulf his administration. The comments came during Monday’s Diet session, after an in-house probe at the communications ministry named several officials and a current Cabinet spokesperson.
The ministry announced that 11 officials had violated its ethics code when they accepted dinners from the prime minister’s eldest son, Suga Seigo. Suga works for Tohoku Shinsha Film Corporation, a video production company whose satellite broadcasting arm would benefit from good relations with the ministry. The scandal was first reported on by weekly magazine Shukan Bunshun in February.
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KYODO Feb 26, 2021
Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga denied Friday that an ethics scandal involving a senior press official had anything to do with his decision not to hold a news conference that day when announcing the partial lifting of the coronavirus emergency.
Cabinet Public Relations Secretary Makiko Yamada, who moderates Suga’s news conferences, came under fire after she was found to have been treated to a luxurious dinner in 2019 by the now-prime minister’s eldest son.
Japan PM Suga denies ethics scandal pushed him to skip press conference
February 26, 2021 (Mainichi Japan)
Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga meets the press at his office in Tokyo on Feb. 26, 2021, after announcing that the country will lift its coronavirus state of emergency for six prefectures at the end of the month, but the Tokyo metropolitan area will have to wait for further signs of improvement. (Kyodo) TOKYO (Kyodo) Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga denied Friday that an ethics scandal involving a senior press official had anything to do with his decision not to hold a news conference that day when announcing the partial lifting of the coronavirus emergency.
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