THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
August 20, 2020 at 18:48 JST
Lower House member Tsukasa Akimoto’s office in Tokyo’s Koto Ward. (Kazuhiro Nagashima)
Tokyo public prosecutors on Aug. 20 arrested a lawmaker charged in a bribery scandal on suspicion of bribing witnesses with at least 30 million yen ($283,000) to provide false testimony, investigative sources said. [Read More]
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