NAGOYA – The nation’s youngest mayor has been acquitted of bribery amid doubts about his accuser’s claims.
Hiroto Fujii, the 30-year-old mayor of Minokamo, Gifu Prefecture, was found not guilty Thursday by the Nagoya District Court of receiving bribes from a groundwater supply company to install a water-cleaning system in a public school.
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