Money-power politics is more than just scandals involving Industry Minister Obuchi Yuko and Justice Minister Matsushima Midori because this is a distinctive characteristic of the Liberal Democratic Party.
The Foreign Ministry has deleted some documents related to Japan’s wartime “comfort women” system from the archives list on its website in mid-October.
Japanese Communist Party member of the House of Councilors Kami Tomoko at a House agricultural committee meeting on October 16 demanded that the government take measures to urgently deal with the collapse in the price of rice paid to farmers.
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