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Lawmaker Toru Ishizaki offers to leave LDP over assault charge

National / Politics Oct 22, 2020

Lawmaker Toru Ishizaki offers to leave LDP over assault charge

A lawmaker from the ruling Liberal Democratic Party on Thursday offered to leave the party following his indictment for his suspected assault of a then-secretary. "I have decided to leave the party to take responsibility" for the incident, Toru Ishizaki, 36, a member of the ...

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