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Komeito lawmaker Kiyohiko Toyama bows at the Diet building Monday as he offers to quit after admitting that he visited a hostess bar late at night last month. | KYODO
Kyodo Feb 1, 2021
A senior member of the ruling coalition offered to quit the Diet Monday after angering the public by visiting a Tokyo hostess bar despite government calls to avoid unnecessary outings under a state of emergency to rein in the spread of the coronavirus.
Japan ruling lawmaker quits over hostess bar visit amid virus emergency
A senior member of Japan s ruling coalition on Monday resigned from parliament after angering the public by visiting a Tokyo hostess bar despite government calls to avoid unnecessary outings under a state of emergency to rein in the spread of the coronavirus.
Kiyohiko Toyama, former acting secretary general of Komeito, the junior coalition partner of the Liberal Democratic Party, has admitted to visiting a hostess bar in Tokyo s posh Ginza district late at night on Jan. 22.
Komeito member Kiyohiko Toyama, who offered to resign as a lawmaker for visiting a hostess bar during a coronavirus emergency, apologizes in the parliament building in Tokyo on Feb. 1, 2021. (Kyodo)
Kiyohiko Toyama, a former vice finance minister and a member of the junior ruling coalition partner, Komeito, offers apologies at a news conference on Feb. 1. (Tsubasa Setoguchi)
A senior member of the ruling coalition’s junior partner, Komeito, offered to resign from the Diet after coming under fire for visiting a club in Tokyo’s upscale Ginza district late at night during the state of emergency.
Kiyohiko Toyama, a former vice finance minister, stepped down as the party’s acting secretary-general on Jan. 29 over the scandal and submitted his official letter of resignation for his Diet seat on Feb. 1 through his secretary to Lower House Speaker Tadamori Oshima.
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