TV Asahi takes back report that prosecutors questioned ex-PM Abe

Don't make me laugh! There's no way the former prime minister is going to ever be questioned or indicted for anything, so don't waste our time.

@sensei258

Obviously you haven't heard of former prime minister Kakuei Tanaka. He was arrested, indicted, found guilty and sentenced to 4 years in prison. Do your homework, sensei.

Obviously you haven't heard of former prime minister Kakuei Tanaka. He was arrested, indicted, found guilty and sentenced to 4 years in prison. Do your homework, sensei.

The Lockheed bribe (through Marubeni) of $1.8m was made public in 1976, but his LDP faction grew from 80 members at the time to over 150 over the next 5 years. His guilty sentence was passed in 1983. Tanaka did zero time, and remained a lawmaker until 1990. Hope you're happyhere.

Oops. Someone got in trouble for telling the truth. I guess he didn't clear it with his boss.

happyhereToday  08:54 am JST

@sensei258

Obviously you haven't heard of former prime minister Kakuei Tanaka. He was arrested, indicted, found guilty and sentenced to 4 years in prison. Do your homework, sensei.

That only occurred because an American senator opened an investigation into corruption in US politics, whose trail led back to Japan via the kickbacks Lockheed Martin was providing Tanaka, Abe's grandfather Kishi, and yakuza godfather/political fixer Kodama Yoshio.

Further, neither Tanaka nor any his cronies spent even one day in jail.

If the US doesn't get involved, rest assured Abe will get away scot free so long as the LDP remains in power.

[ The late Sen. Frank Church, D-Idaho, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Multinational Corporations, disclosed on Feb. 4, l976, that Lockheed paid $12.3 million in agent fees in Japan, including ″bribes and questionable political contributions.″

That news brought deliberations in the Japanese Diet, or parliament, to a halt, caused massive street demonstrations and resulted in indictments for 16 politicians and businessmen, including Tanaka and powerful right-wing fixer Yoshio Kodama.

Lockheed, a Burbank, Calif.-based defense contractor, pleaded guilty in 1979 to U.S. federal charges of concealing payments to Japanese officials. ]

https://apnews.com/article/0358f4d850e4779b25b510ed6a407f97

Oh and by the way 'business' is back to usual, as Lockheed has been selling trillions of dollars of weapons/jets, etc. since the trial concluded, and is even in the news today for helping build stealth fighters for Japan.

TV Asahi takes back report that prosecutors questioned ex-PM Abe

But everyone already saw it. Does it mean it never actually happened? I'm so confused Abe. Please straighten out your lies and relax the power harassment.

Too late. Cat's out of the bag.

But seriously, does anyone think anything will happen to these emperors, kings and princelings.