Vox Populi, Vox Dei is a daily column that runs on Page 1 of The Asahi Shimbun.
July 16, 2020 at 13:43 JST
Masako Akagi reads out lines from "ethics checklist cards" for civil servants, which her husband, Toshio, kept in his notebook, at a news conference after the first court hearing in Osaka on July 15. (The Asahi Shimbun)
"I was ordered to do something that could blow the Cabinet apart," Toshio Akagi confided to his wife. "And it's always us flunkies who end up taking the heat." [Read More]
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