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Cabinet Public Relations Secretary Yamada Makiko resigns after revelations that she attended an expensive dinner paid for by Tōhoku Shinsha, a broadcasting company with Prime Minister Suga Yoshihide’s son Seigo among its senior officials.
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Tokyo prosecutors arrest former US Green Beret Michael Taylor and his son Peter on suspicion of illegally harboring former Nissan Chairman Carlos Ghosn and helping him flee Japan to Lebanon. The pair were extradited from the United States.
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Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications Takeda Ryōta announces that Taniwaki Yasuhiko has been removed from the position of vice minister for policy coordination after Taniwaki had been repeatedly entertained by companies in violation of a government employees ethics code. Taniwaki resigns from the ministry on March 16.
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Cash-strapped JAPC funds road plans near idle nuclear plant,
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March 8, 2021, TSURUGA, Fukui Prefecture Multibillion-yen road projects continue on a peninsula here, funded in part by a nuclear power company that has gained no income from electricity for a decade.
The roads were planned decades ago for the expected expansion of the Tsuruga Nuclear Power Plant here. Although all nuclear operations and construction at the nuclear plant have long been halted, the work on the roads has not stopped.
“We are building a new road,” said a signboard near an area where heavy vehicles were removing dirt from the site of a planned tunnel in the city of Tsuruga, Fukui Prefecture, in mid-February.
Former prime ministers Naoto Kan and Junichiro Koizumi urge Japan to stop using nuclear power, saying the country should learn from the Fukushima crisis a decade ago and turn to renewable energy.