Takaki Shirasuka apologizes to reporters on Feb. 17 at the Tokyo headquarters of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party. (Kotaro Ebara)
It appears that some ruling party lawmakers had a different interpretation of what the word “party” means in the Liberal Democratic Party’s name.
Yet another lawmaker is leaving the LDP amid revelations he visited an upscale club in Tokyo despite that a state of emergency for the novel coronavirus is in place.
According to an online article published by a weekly magazine, Takaki Shirasuka, a Lower House member representing a district in Chiba Prefecture, went to the expensive, members-only club in Tokyo’s high-end Azabu district with a woman on Feb. 10 between about 8 p.m. to 10 p.m.
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東電「株主代表訴訟」の賠償請求が何と22兆円に
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