Jun Sawada, president of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp., answers questions from an opposition lawmaker about his dinners with telecommunications ministry officials at the Upper House Budget Committee on March 15. (Reina Kitamura)
The steady drip of information fueling the scandal of bureaucrats being wined and dined by industry stakeholders is showing no signs of slowing.
It continued again on March 15, when the telecommunications ministry said two top officials dined in 2018 with the president of telecommunication giant Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp., a major industry player under the ministry’s purview.
The two officials are Yoshinori Akimoto and Shigeki Suzuki, officials said.