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Yasuhiko Taniwaki, a former high-ranking telecommunications ministry bureaucrat, attends the March 15 Upper House Budget Committee session. (Reina Kitamura)
A senior telecommunications ministry bureaucrat embroiled in wining and dining scandals has resigned, which opposition lawmakers are criticizing as an attempt to prevent him from being questioned in the Diet.
Yasuhiko Taniwaki, the former vice minister for policy coordination at the ministry, submitted his resignation on March 16, which was immediately accepted, officials said.
Taniwaki was shuffled out of the ministry’s No. 2 bureaucratic post on March 8, following revelations about his wining and dining from a second company.
Ryota Takeda, the communications minister, announced earlier on March 16 that Taniwaki had been suspended for three months in connection with being wined and dined by top executives of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp.
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Kyodo Mar 16, 2021
A senior government official with close ties to Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga resigned Tuesday after being reprimanded over a wining and dining scandal that involved other officials and companies that they supervise.
The resignation of Yasuhiko Taniwaki, who played a pivotal role in fulfilling Suga’s policy pledge of lowering mobile phone fees, came along with a decision by the communications ministry to suspend him from work for three months.
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2021-03-16 14:35:31 GMT2021-03-16 22:35:31(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
TOKYO, March 16 (Xinhua) A senior government official with Japan s communications ministry who was close to Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga resigned on Tuesday after being embroiled in a wining and dining scandal involving a telecom giant and a satellite broadcaster.
Communications Minister Ryota Takeda said Tuesday that he ordered the former vice minister for policy coordination, Yasuhiko Taniwaki, to be suspended from work for three months for being entertained by telecom giant NTT.
Taniwaki had already been reprimanded after a previous investigation found that he had been entertained by executives of a satellite broadcaster.