THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
December 15, 2021 at 18:40 JST
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida prepares to answer a question at the Dec. 15 Lower House Budget Committee session. (Koichi Ueda)
Both Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and infrastructure minister Tetsuo Saito apologized on Dec. 15 for the eight years of construction contract figures that were falsified under the instructions of ministry bureaucrats. [Read More]
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