Former Japanese Justice Minister Katsuyuki Kawai, who is being tried on vote-buying charges related to his wife's 2019 upper house election campaign, was released on bail Wednesday following more than eight months in detention.Kawai left the Tokyo Detention House after a prosecutors' appeal against a lower court decision made earlier in the day to grant him bail was rejected.The 57-year-old House of Representatives member paid bail of 50 million yen ($470,000) as requested by the Tokyo District Court.Kawai is accused of handing out a total of about 29 million yen to 100 individuals, includi…READ FULL ARTICLE
