Staff writer
Will Obuchi's about-face decision to eliminate corporate donations to individual lawmakers break the scandal-tainted political circles of a country that has a history of closed-door politics?
Unlikely, political analysts say. There are still plenty of avenues for politicians to partake in the interests of big business, given the number of loopholes left in the Political Funds Control Law, revised in 1994 after a number of political money scandals involving LDP members rocked the country in the 1980s and early 1990s.