Town mayor admits to getting cash from scandal-hit ex-minister Kawai
A town mayor admitted Thursday to having received cash last year from veteran lawmaker Katsuyuki Kawai, who is involved in money misuse allegations related to his wife's Upper House campaign. Akiota Mayor Shinji Kosaka became the first municipal leader in Hiroshima Prefecture, from which Kawai ...
Backers of ex-Justice Minister Katsuyuki Kawai grilled over 2019 Upper House election scandal
Local supporters of former Justice Minister Katsuyuki Kawai have been questioned by prosecutors on suspicion they received cash from him in connection with last summer's Upper House election, which saw his wife, Anri Kawai, win a seat, sources familiar with the matter said Saturday. Members ...
LDP lawmaker Anri Kawai faces possible ouster from Diet as aides indicted
Close aides to former Justice Minister Katsuyuki Kawai and his wife, Anri Kawai, both ruling party lawmakers, were indicted Tuesday over unlawful rewards paid to Anri Kawai's campaign staff during the Upper House election last summer, raising the possibility she will lose her parliamentary ...
Seventh Diamond Princess passenger dies as three prefectures register first coronavirus cases
A Hong Kong man who had been on the coronavirus-hit Diamond Princess cruise ship has died, the Japanese health ministry said Saturday, bringing the total number of deaths from the ship to seven. The man died on Friday, the ministry said, making him the second ...
Hiroshima prosecutors to question Kawais over campaign scandal
Hiroshima prosecutors plan to question Liberal Democratic Party lawmakers Katsuyuki Kawai and Anri Kawai on a voluntary basis as part of their investigation into an alleged campaign violation, informed sources said Friday. Prosecutors have smartphones belonging to House of Representatives member Katsuyuki Kawai, 56, and ...
More illegal payments by lawmaker Anri Kawai's campaign suspected
The team that conducted lawmaker Anri Kawai's campaign for last year's House of Councilors election is suspected of having made illegal payments to more staff members than was previously believed, sources said Wednesday. The revelation comes after Hiroshi Tatemichi, 54, a government-paid secretary to Kawai, ...
The three are suspected of paying a combined ¥2.04 million to 14 campaign staff members between July 19 and 23 last year.
Hiroshima museum showing rare color footage taken soon after atomic bombing
The Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum is showing newly obtained color footage filmed shortly after the U.S. atomic bombing in August 1945. The footage shows Hiroshima from the ground and air between around October 1945 and February 1946, and on the occasion of a visit by ...
Rediscovery of study on Nagasaki atomic bomb blast spotlights pioneering work by Kamekichi Sugimoto
A comparative study report on the development of child survivors of atomic blasts and those unexposed to radiation by the first chair of the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Survivors Council, Kamekichi Sugimoto, who died in 1979 at 77, has been discovered in the city of ...
Nippon Steel to halt Wakayama blast furnace and shut down Hiroshima plant
Japan's largest steel-maker, Nippon Steel Corp., said Friday it will halt two blast furnaces, one in the city of Wakayama and another in Kure, Hiroshima Prefecture, to accelerate a cutback in output amid deteriorating market conditions. The steel-maker's Kure Works in Hiroshima has two blast ...
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to visit Hiroshima in August
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Tuesday he will visit Hiroshima in August for the 75th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the city. The visit will be "a way to demonstrate, not only my solidarity with Hiroshima, but my strong commitment to nuclear disarmament ...
The Kawai scandal and the race to succeed Shinzo Abe
Hiroshima-based Liberal Democratic Party Diet member Anri Kawai admitted in January to receiving ¥150 million from LDP headquarters prior to the July 2019 Upper House election. Kawai, a novice in national politics, is also the wife of disgraced former Justice Minister Katsuyuki Kawai, who ...
