Health minister Norihisa Tamura apologized Tuesday over a late-night party involving 23 officials of his ministry held last week in Tokyo despite the metropolitan government's request for shorter business hours to curb the spread of the coronavirus.Tamura, who as head of the ministry at the forefront of the state response to the COVID-19 pandemic, said the big farewell party held at a restaurant in the capital's glitzy Ginza district until around midnight last Wednesday "betrayed the people's trust."The minister of health, labor and welfare will voluntarily surrender two months' worth of mi…READ FULL ARTICLE