The Tokyo District Court decides to grant bail to a former Tokyo Olympic executive indicted four times on charges of receiving bribes in connection to the games, with the amount set at 80 million yen ($603,000).
Haruyuki Takahashi, a former Tokyo Olympic organizing committee executive arrested in a bribery case involving a sponsorship contract for a clothes retailer, may also have been asked to favor publishing company Kadokawa Corp., a source familiar with the matter says.
A former representative of a major Japanese egg producer is sentenced to 20 months in prison, suspended for four years, for bribing a former farm minister to seek favors for egg farmers.