Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and his party are flailing in response to a fundraising scandal, shaking Japan’s image as an island of stability. Japan’s political structure has clearly not matured and stabilised in the post-war period to the same extent that its institutional and economic structure has.
The Abe faction in the ruling Liberal Democratic Party returned all of the money collected by Upper House members for tickets to fund-raising parties when they were up for re-election, investigative sources said.
Tokyo's prosecutors raid offices of LDP’s Abe, Nikai factions over kickback scandal Asia News Network (ANN) is the leading regional alliance of news titles striving to bring the region closer, through an active sharing of editorial content on happenings in the region.