Tsuguhiko Kadokawa, former chairman of Japanese publisher Kadokawa, pleaded not guilty on Tuesday over allegations he bribed a former executive of the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic organizing committee.
"I don't recall anything, and I'm innocent," Kadokawa, 81, said in the first hearing of his trial at the Tokyo District Court.
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