About 1 trillion yen ($6.6 billion) in loans that government-affiliated lenders extended to small businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic will likely never be recovered, according to a Board of Audit study.
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A former farm minister received a suspended prison sentence on May 26 after being found guilty of accepting 5 million yen ($39,200) in bribes from an agriculture industry official.
A former lawmaker of Komeito, the junior party in Japan's ruling coalition, was sentenced Tuesday to two years in prison, suspended for three years, for illegally mediating public loans to companies hit by the coronavirus pandemic. The Tokyo District Court found Kiyohiko Toyama, who stepped down as a House of…