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Ex-farm minister Yoshikawa resigns as lawmaker in wake of scandal

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Mr Yoshikawa has egg on his face...

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He will be back as a special expert, again getting tax money...and trying to pocket more. The corruption never ends, the poverty of Japanese workers also. Seems like both sides accept poverty for the masses and wealth for the chosen.

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He's a shell of his former self.

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Yoshikawa will be charged. An obvious economic crime.

The resignation of Yoshikawa, a House of Representatives member from the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, would deal a blow to Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga's government

He's a heavy weight member of the "pro-China" Nikai clique. The group has suffered a series of arrests involving its members. There must be an internal political struggle underway between the Nikai group and the opposite "anti-Beijing" conservatives (also backed by the public prosecutors??).

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A politician here receiving bribes and then not being forced to testify about them, but being allowed to retire with full pension and benefits, and likely to an amakudari job?

TIJ. No surprise.

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More snouts in the trough.

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You wold think at 70 having a career tax payer funded he has enough money for another 70 years? Apparently not! Gimme more, gimme more. If you have to work at 70 you really had the financial understanding of a 10 year old. As the above story demonstrated?

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That doesn't mean much in Japanese culture. He'll just get reassigned to something else.

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revolution shall be brought inside the Japanese political culture, person like this cannot be let escaped without any solid law punishment. The whole world know he commit bribery or not

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Mr. Yoshikawa was counting his chickens before they hatched, but he found out the egg that is cracked cannot be mended.

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