Prosecutors are expanding their bribery investigation into Mito Kakizawa, a Lower House member suspected of buying votes to benefit a colleague during a Tokyo ward mayoral race in April.
A former Japanese state justice minister has left the governing Liberal Democratic Party after prosecutors raided his home and office over suspected vote-buying in a mayoral election in Tokyo s Koto Ward in April.
A candidate backed by the ruling coalition parties and Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike was elected mayor of Tokyo’s Koto Ward after the former mayor resigned while under investigation for suspected illegal election campaign tactics.
Staffers of ruling Liberal Democratic Party lawmaker Mito Kakizawa are under investigation for illegally paying campaign workers as the probe into his activities regarding the April election for mayor of Koto Ward in Tokyo widens.