Scandal claims two more
NZPA-Reuter Tokyo The head of Japan’s second-largest Opposition party and a former Cabinet Minister said yesterday they were quitting their party posts because of political scandals. Junya Yano of the Opposition Komeito (Clean Government) Party told a televised news conference he was taking responsibil-
ity for the resignation of two pother party members — one implicated in the Recruit share scandal, and; another in a separate scandal last year. An official of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party told Reuters that a former chief Cabinet secretary, Takao Fujinami, had said he would leave the party. A Komeito Party membey of Parliament, Kat-
suya Ikeda, announced his resignation from both the party and from his Parliamentary seat on Tuesday after being questioned by prosecutors about the Recruit affair, Japan’s biggest post-war political scandal. Mr Ikeda and Mr Fujinami were yesterday called in for questioning by prosecutors over the Recruit scandal.
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