Prosecutors search lower house member's home, office over vote-buying

Tokyo prosecutors on Thursday searched the home and the Diet office of House of Representatives member Mito Kakizawa, with a special investigation team also seeking to question him over allegations of vote-buying in a Tokyo ward mayoral election in April, investigative sources said.The 52-year-old, who on the same day left Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party, is suspected of paying money to several Koto Ward assembly members to get a mayoral candidate he backed elected. His constituency office has already been searched, and prosecutors will decide whether to press charges after confirmi…READ FULL ARTICLE