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Ex-ASDF chief Tamogami found guilty of bribery in 2014 gubernatorial race
The Tokyo District Court on Monday sentenced former Air Self-Defense Force chief Toshio Tamogami to 22 months in prison, suspended for five years, for making illegal payments to his campaign staff during his unsuccessful run for Tokyo governor in February 2014. In rejecting his not-guilty ...
Two-year sentence sought for ex-ASDF chief Tamogami over illegal payments to staff
Prosecutors have sought a two-year prison sentence for former Air Self-Defense Force chief Toshio Tamogami for allegedly making illegal payments to his campaign staff in his unsuccessful Tokyo gubernatorial bid in February 2014. Tamogami repeated his not guilty plea in the trial at the Tokyo ...
Tamogami pleads not guilty to paying his campaign staff
Former Air Self-Defense Force chief Toshio Tamogami tells the Tokyo District Court he's innocent.
Former ASDF chief Tamogami arrested over alleged illegal election staff payments
Tamogami, 67, who ran as an independent, was arrested by prosecutors together with Nobuteru Shimamoto, 69, who served as his election secretariat chief.
Toshio Tamogami, a former Air Self-Defense Force chief whose office was searched on suspicion of using political funds for private purposes, told reporters Tuesday the accusation was false. "I have not used political funds for private purposes. I hope they will investigate thoroughly," he said. Prosecutors ...
Media total up the targets for terrorist attacks
The 67-second video on YouTube opens with a black slate that reads, "A Message to Japan." The video then shows a kneeling journalist, Kenji Goto, clad in an orange outfit. Behind him, flaunting a knife, is the masked executioner from the Islamic State group whom ...
Government checking claim that nine Japanese have joined Islamic State fighters
The government has no information to support the claim that several Japanese nationals may have joined the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said Friday. "We, as the government of Japan, have yet to confirm such information," he told ...
New right-wing Sunrise Party aims to 'rebuild Japan's pride'
Conservatives were promised right-wing policies, an army, a new Constitution and the confiscation of voting rights from non-ethnic Japanese people on Thursday as two prominent rightists launched a new political party. Toshio Tamogami, a former chief of staff of the Air Self-Defense Force who has ...
A broken man living on dreams pulls Japan into Islamic State hostage drama
When Haruna Yukawa was captured in Syria earlier this month, a video apparently released by his captors showed them pressing the Japanese man to answer questions friends say he had struggled with for years: Who are you? Why are you here? In fact, Yukawa, 42, ...
Tamogami finds some support in younger generation
He may have lost the Tokyo gubernatorial election Sunday, but Toshio Tamogami appears to have won over younger voters who favored the hawkish former Air Self-Defense Force general more than middle-aged and elderly voters did, according to media exit polls. However, experts caution it's too ...
Media outlets at home and abroad are playing up the Tokyo gubernatorial election as an effective public referendum on whether Japan should ditch its atomic plants, focusing on the battle between anti-nuclear candidate Morihiro Hosokawa and ex-health minister Yoichi Masuzoe, who is backed by ...
Do you think the nuclear issue should be the focus of the Tokyo election?
Tokyoites go to the polls Sunday to elect a governor to replace Naoki Inose, who quit his post in December amid a political funding scandal. So who will — or would — they vote for?
