Digital Agency exec punished; minister returns month's salary over dining

It's not about what he ate, it's about who he treated and what did he get back in return.

I get that but still... three meals worth 120,000 yen?

Why?

Slap on the wrist again?

Aly RustomToday  01:11 pm JST

The hell was he eating??

It's not about what he ate, it's about who he treated and what did he get back in return.

They get it back in bonuses

Akaishi was subjected to a pay cut for being treated to three meals worth 120,000 yen

The hell was he eating??

Japan needs and independent body with the authority to really hold accountable and fire bureaucrats that break ethical rules,

How about “free market competition” for that purpose?

digitalize local and central government services in Japan.

Maybe it’s better to have privatized services that aren’t susceptible to such influence shenanigans.

Who ever personally voted for the Digital Cho?

Only doing it cos he got found out, if not it's just going to keep on happening.....

Was this also after 8pm you hen us minions must close/head home???

Endless corruption, endlessly.

A senior Digital Agency official has been reprimanded over repeated wining and dining by a private company, and digitalization minister Takuya Hirai will voluntarily return a month's salary after joining the official for one of the meals, the top government spokesman said.

Which equals in consequence to you or me having a 500 yen coil roll under the vending machine.

Corporations and politicians make cost -benefit evaluations and when the benefits of violating the public trust and welfare far outweigh any possible fines what do you think the outcome will be?

NTT monopoly on the communication business must be broken, this monster is if not kept in check will again raise pries and try to go back to the Good Old Days were they were ripping off the general public and the government, Thank you JT for keeping sharing this story with us.

Of three occasions on which Koichi Akaishi, the No. 2 bureaucrat of the recently launched agency, was wined and dined ...

a supplier of software used by the Cabinet Secretariat.

From the past news, in that company that budget used for that wined and dined will be put in entertainment budget that always exist and need to be spent.

Fire them and make an example so others will think twice before breaking the rules.

One month.... slap on the wrist! If it violated the ethics code, then there should be more serious penalties assessed, and a demotion as well!

So then it's OK for government officials to expense account tens of thousands of yen for dining (during pandemic emergency restrictions) with employees of corporations that the government is then going to hand out corporate welfare to. And the rest of us meet for ¥500 coffees or over the internet.

Japan needs and independent body with the authority to really hold accountable and fire bureaucrats that break ethical rules, such as this Akaishi fellow.