A senior government official with close ties to Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga resigned Tuesday after being reprimanded over a wining and dining scandal that involved other officials and companies that they supervise.The retirement of Yasuhiko Taniwaki, who played a pivotal role in fulfilling Suga's policy pledge to lower mobile phone fees, came along with a decision by the communications ministry to suspend him from work for three months.Taniwaki, who had been touted as a candidate for vice minister, the top post for bureaucrats at the ministry, was found to have violated the ethics code fo…READ FULL ARTICLE
