Japan’s government is in disarray thanks to an unfolding list of lawmakers who failed to report some of their income in their political fund statements. This week the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) presented a list of 82 lawmakers, belonging to three different factions, who pocketed millions of dollars in kickbacks from political party fundraising … Read more
The resignation of four cabinet ministers in the most serious political corruption scandal in recent memory begs for a certain appraisal of affairs. In the past year and a half, Japan has been going through a spectacular series of corruption incidents and fraud at the highest levels of government and industry, eroding an already brittle … Read more
A college professor’s criminal complaint about the Liberal Democratic Party’s sloppy bookkeeping resulted in some of the most influential LDP members being purged from the Kishida Cabinet and the party leadership. After conducting meticulous research, Hiroyuki Kamiwaki of Kobe Gakuin University found out that the members of the leadership of the so-called Abe faction, the … Read more
Japan’s ruling party, the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), is at the center of a financial misconduct scandal that threatens to drag down public approval ratings and paralyze the Kishida administration. The LDP’s largest political faction, named after assassinated former Prime Minister Abe Shinzo, is alleged to have failed to report as much as $700,000 from … Read more
Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party is reeling under a political finance scandal that looks set to force a second reshuffle of Prime Minister Kishida Fumio’s Cabinet in three months. Japanese politicians typically host fundraising events, where attendees pay to buy tickets. The various LDP factions set quotas for how much money each legislator must raise … Read more