Few details were gleaned from the questioning of ruling Liberal Democratic Party lawmakers regarding the large amounts of unreported cash raised through fund-raising parties and later returned to the lawmakers.
The main opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan is focusing on possible tax evasion to continue attacking factions in the ruling Liberal Democratic Party over their unreported political funds.
Prosecutors are looking into a suspected unreported “slush fund” created by the largest faction of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party that apparently provided kickbacks to group members, sources said.
Japanese government officials expected a reaction from China but were caught off-guard by the severity of Beijing’s response to the Aug. 24 discharge of treated radioactive water into the ocean.
Japan had 800,000 fewer citizens at the start of this year, compared with a year earlier, but more worrying was that falls were posted by every one of its 47 prefectures for the first time.