THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
December 20, 2019 at 14:30 JST
Investigators with the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office carry boxloads of documents from the Koto Ward office of Lower House member Tsukasa Akimoto on Dec. 19. (Takuya Tanabe)
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