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Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. President Jun Sawada (left) and Tohokushinsha Film Corp. President Shinya Nakajima attend an Upper House Budget Committee session on Monday. | KYODO
Jiji, Kyodo Mar 15, 2021
NTT Corp. President Jun Sawada, at a parliamentary meeting on Monday, denied that the company had asked lawmakers in senior communications ministry posts for favors through wining and dining them.
“There have been no conversations for making requests related to our business or receiving favors,” Sawada told the House of Councilors’ Budget Committee.
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Tohokushinsha applied for the permit based on false information in which the company failed to recognize its violation of the broadcasting law, the communications minister said.
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