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POLITICAL FUNDS

Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jun 2, 2014
Ex-Your Party head Watanabe faces criminal complaint
Members of an Osaka civic group file a criminal complaint against former Your Party leader Yoshimi Watanabe over ¥500 million in dubious loans that made him step down.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Apr 7, 2014
Your Party chief Watanabe to quit amid scandal
Your Party leader Yoshimi Watanabe says he will step down as president of the minor opposition party due to the loan scandal swirling about him.
EDITORIALS
Apr 1, 2014
Watanabe should come clean
Your Party chief Yoshimi Watanabe's lame excuse that he borrowed ¥800 million for individual rather than political expenses from a cosmetics firm chairman only adds to people's distrust of politicians.
JAPAN / Politics
Mar 28, 2014
Your Party chief emailed ¥500 million loan request before '12 election: Yoshida
Your Party leader Yoshimi Watanabe sent an email message to a corporate executive asking him for a loan of ¥500 million shortly before the December 2012 general election, the businessman said Friday.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Mar 27, 2014
Your Party chief probed over ¥800 million in loans before two elections
Your Party leader Yoshimi Watanabe borrowed ¥800 million before two national elections but failed to list the money in his political funds reports, a businessman alleges.
JAPAN
Mar 22, 2014
Prosecutors raid sites linked to ex-Tokyo Gov. Inose
The investigation into ¥50 million that Naoki Inose received from a major hospital chain leads prosecutors to search locations linked to Tokyo's former governor.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Nov 22, 2013
Inose denies hospital funds coverup
Tokyo Gov. Naoki Inose denied Friday that he deliberately whitewashed his annual report on political funds last year and said money he accepted from the scandal-tainted Tokushukai hospital chain before his gubernatorial campaign last December was strictly for "personal purposes."
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 5, 2011
Japan in a European club?
Hitherto unknown and self-styled "loach" Yoshihiko Noda must learn to swim in an ocean of problems as Japan's new prime minister of the year. He has more than a plateful of domestic issues, but he should also realize, as his predecessors forgot, that Japan needs to re-engage the world if it is to find...

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