Former Japan justice minister and wife charged with vote-buying
Katsuyuki Kawai is suspected of having given ¥25.7 million ($240,000) to 94 local politicians and supporters in relation to the July 2019 Upper House vote.
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Her speech comes ahead of the 75th anniversary of the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki just days before Japan's surrender in World War II.
Residents mourn victims of 2018 torrential rain in western Japan
With the coronavirus pandemic, the memorial services in Hiroshima and Okayama prefectures were held with limited attendees and social distancing within the venues.
Ex-minister Katsuyuki Kawai said alleged vote-buying cash was ‘from Abe’
The assembly member who received the money said they could not refuse it as Kawai mentioned the name of the prime minister.
Ex-justice minister may have bought votes in Hiroshima in 2005 poll
A former assemblyman said he refused to take the envelope, believing it contained cash, and then cut ties with Katsuyuki Kawai.
Arrested ex-Justice Minister Katsuyuki Kawai admits cash handout but denies vote-buying
Katsuyuki Kawai and his wife Anri were arrested last Thursday on suspicion of giving ¥25.7 million in cash to 94 local politicians and supporters.
Kawais may have dished out ¥30 million in scheme to buy votes
That leak is based on lists showing who got how much that Hiroshima prosecutors confiscated from the couple's home.
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Orders from local kagura communities — themselves grappling with the economic fallout of the pandemic — have stopped coming in.
‘Raccoon’ and ‘Angie’ Kawai suspected of erasing Line texts on vote-buying
Katsuyuki Kawai is also alleged to have distributed cash to members of local city and prefectural assemblies as "money for teacakes."
Aide to LDP lawmaker sentenced to 18-month term for violating election law
Anri Kawai will lose her seat representing Hiroshima once her aid's term is finalized, and the court has recognized a request for application of guilt by association.
Prosecutors in Japan used GPS data to track ex-justice minister
The Kawais' smartphones were seized in March this year during a raid of a Tokyo hotel where they were staying.
Ex-minister Katsuyuki Kawai and wife to leave LDP over scandal
The former justice minister and Anri Kawai are suspected of buying votes in the House of Councilors election in July 2019.
