
Japan's former Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno attends a political ethics committee at parliament in Tokyo Friday, March 1, 2024. Two former Cabinet ministers belonging to Japan’s governing party’s key faction behind a major corruption scandal that has rocked the government renewed denial they had any role in running slush funds at a political ethics hearing Friday, a day after Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s appearance that gave no new details, deepening speculation that the party just wants to get it over with and rush the passage of a budget bill. (Japan Pool/Kyodo News via AP)
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