Japan PM grilled over alleged gifts to IOC for Tokyo's Olympic bid

Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida was grilled in parliament on Monday by the opposition bloc over Ishikawa Gov. Hiroshi Hase's remarks that gifts were provided to International Olympic Committee members during the bid to host the Tokyo Games.The comments made by the former lawmaker, who belongs to the ruling Liberal Democratic Party and headed its Tokyo Olympic bidding promotion committee, have caused ripples as he said he used the Cabinet Secretariat's discretionary funds, known as "secret funds," for the gifts for the IOC members.Revelations over the use of the funds, which are not mad…READ FULL ARTICLE