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Kyodo Mar 16, 2021
A senior government official with close ties to Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga resigned Tuesday after being reprimanded over a wining and dining scandal that involved other officials and companies that they supervise.
The resignation of Yasuhiko Taniwaki, who played a pivotal role in fulfilling Suga’s policy pledge of lowering mobile phone fees, came along with a decision by the communications ministry to suspend him from work for three months.
Senior bureaucrat close to Suga resigns amid hospitality scandal
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Senior bureaucrat close to Suga resigns amid hospitality scandal
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Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. President Jun Sawada (left) and Tohokushinsha Film Corp. President Shinya Nakajima attend an Upper House Budget Committee session on Monday. | KYODO
Jiji, Kyodo Mar 15, 2021
NTT Corp. President Jun Sawada, at a parliamentary meeting on Monday, denied that the company had asked lawmakers in senior communications ministry posts for favors through wining and dining them.
“There have been no conversations for making requests related to our business or receiving favors,” Sawada told the House of Councilors’ Budget Committee.