Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said Friday that Nobuteru Ishihara, a former secretary general of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, resigned from his recently appointed post of special adviser to the Cabinet amid criticism that a political party he heads received subsidies for COVID-19 relief.The development, a blow to Kishida who appointed Ishihara to the post only a week ago, comes as the political group was found to have received around 600,000 yen ($5,300) in pandemic-related subsidies last year.Kishida told reporters that Ishihara had explained that the group had received the money in …READ FULL ARTICLE
