THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
February 13, 2020 at 16:10 JST
Hiroto Izumi, center, a special adviser to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, attends a meeting at the prime minister’s office on Feb. 2. Abe is seated front left and Finance Minister Taro Aso is on his right. (Takeshi Iwashita)
An adviser to the prime minister and a top-level health ministry bureaucrat were accused of impropriety by booking connecting hotel rooms during a business trip to India, raising questions about the use of tax money for their rumored affair. [Read More]
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Here is a collection of first-hand accounts by “hibakusha” atomic bomb survivors.
