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Feb 3, 2021 OSAKA – Four months into his term as prime minister, Yoshihide Suga is facing a mountain of problems and low approval ratings. From controversial new legislation aimed at bringing the coronavirus under control to the fate of the Tokyo Olympics to scandals within his party, Suga’s leadership ability and style is under increased scrutiny and criticism. As his term expires in September and a general election must be held by October, how he handles these problems over the next few months could determine his political fate this autumn. The most pressing issues Suga faces s...

Jan 15, 2021 Osaka – Former agriculture minister Takamori Yoshikawa was indicted Friday by prosecutors without arrest for alleged bribery charges, after receiving ¥5 million from the former president of Akita Foods, a Hiroshima Prefecture-based egg producer, over several years. Yoshikawa, 70, resigned as a Lower House member in late December over the scandal, citing health reasons, and has also left the Liberal Democratic Party. The controversy is a political blow for Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga’s government, and is likely to be the subject of inquiries by opposition parties w...

Prosecutors search the office of former agriculture minister Takamori Yoshikawa in Sapporo on Dec. 25. (Kengo Hiyoshi) Tokyo prosecutors will soon indict a former agriculture minister on a bribery charge over 5 million yen ($48,000) he received from a major egg producing company, sources said. Takamori Yoshikawa, 70, will be indicted without arrest or being taken into custody because he underwent a heart operation at the end of 2020 and has since been in a hospital, the sources said. Prosecutors suspect Yoshikawa received a total 18 million yen over the past six years from a former top execut...

Another former farm minister is accused of feathering his nest with millions of yen from an egg prod

A former agriculture minister under investigation for receiving money from a major egg producing co