Digital Agency exec punished, minister returns salary over dining

A senior Digital Agency official was reprimanded Friday over repeated wining and dining by a private company, and digitalization minister Takuya Hirai will voluntarily return a month's salary after joining the official for one of the meals, the top government spokesman said.Of three occasions on which Koichi Akaishi, the No. 2 bureaucrat of the recently launched agency, was wined and dined, two matched days that Hirai reportedly had dinner with Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. executives. An NTT subsidiary is a supplier of software used by the Cabinet Secretariat.Chief Cabinet Secretary…READ FULL ARTICLE