In the latest blow to the Kishida Cabinet, a parliamentary secretary from the ruling Liberal Democratic Party has resigned after only a month in the job after admitting to an affair with a woman in her 20s.
The triple jump, a track and field event, was given the Japanese name of “sandan tobi” (literally, three-step jump) by Mikio Oda (1905-1998), Japan’s first Olympic gold medalist and a former employee of The Asahi Shimbun.
Eight serving vice ministers and former senior government members of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party acknowledged they were asked to sign “policy pacts” by organizations affiliated with the Unification Church in exchange for support in elections.
Daishiro Yamagiwa, state minister in charge of economic revitalization, has admitted to facts concerning his connections with the Unification Church only when evidence is thrust at him by other parties.