Prosecutors demanded Tuesday an 18-month prison term for lawmaker Anri Kawai, who has been indicted on a charge of vote-buying ahead of last year’s House of Councilors election campaign.
In seeking the prison term during her trial at the Tokyo District Court, prosecutors argued Kawai, 47, committed an “unprecedented malicious crime that jolted the foundations of democracy.”
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