THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
February 13, 2020 at 16:10 JST
Hiroko Otsubo, center, a deputy director general for the health ministry, attends a Lower House Budget Committee session on Feb. 7. (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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