Former Japanese Justice Minister Katsuyuki Kawai on Thursday accepted a three-year prison term for buying votes for his wife in the 2019 upper house election, dropping his appeal in the high-profile case that has rocked the country's major ruling party.Kawai, who held the ministerial post under then-Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, is the first former Japanese Cabinet member in over 10 years to have a prison term finalized.He is also subject to a forfeiture of 1.3 million yen ($11,400) after the Tokyo District Court's ruling in June found he had handed out a total of 28.7 million yen to 100 local…READ FULL ARTICLE
