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…
The Tokyo District Court found former Komeito lawmaker Kiyohiko Toyama guilty on March 29 of illegally brokering COVID-19 relief loans and gave him a suspended prison term.