Hiroyuki Hosoda, speaker of the House of Representatives, said in a statement Thursday that he is considering filing a lawsuit against Shukan Bunshun over the weekly magazine’s reports about his alleged acts of sexual harassment.
In the statement, Hosoda said that he lodged a strong protest with Shukan Bunshun on Monday over its report that is “completely untrue” and that he would strongly protest another article of the magazine published Thursday that is making similar allegations.
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