LDP political funds scandal Japan's top news story of 2023

KYODO NEWS

- Dec 26, 2023 - 11:09 All,Japan

(Clockwise from top L) File photo shows then internal affairs minister Junji Suzuki, Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno, economy minister Yasutoshi Nishimura and farm minister Ichiro Miyashita at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Dec. 14, 2023, the day they submitted their resignations. (Kyodo)

File photo shows (from L) Yoshihiko Inohara, Noriyuki Higashiyama and Julie Keiko Fujishima holding a press conference in Tokyo on Sept. 7, 2023, on sexual abuse allegations against Johnny Kitagawa, the late founder of male talent agency Johnny & Associates Inc. (Kyodo)

File photo shows foreign tourists and others taking photos in Tokyo's Asakusa district on Nov. 15, 2023. (Kyodo)

File photo taken in June 2023 shows bread sold at a supermarket in Tokyo. (Kyodo)

File photo shows a foreign tourist standing under a mist shower to keep cool in the summer heat in Kyoto on July 31, 2023. (Kyodo)

The crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Fukushima Prefecture is pictured on Aug. 24, 2023, as Japan began releasing treated radioactive water from the plant into the sea the same day. (Kyodo)

File photo shows Tomihiro Tanaka, head of the Unification Church's Japan branch, after holding a press conference in Tokyo on Nov. 7, 2023. (Kyodo)

File photo shows Shogi player Sota Fujii holding a paper card that says "eight crowns" during a press conference in Kyoto on Oct. 11, 2023, after he became the first player in shogi history to hold all eight of the traditional board game's titles simultaneously. (Kyodo)

File photo shows Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy (L) and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida after they offered flowers at the cenotaph for atomic bomb victims at the Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima on May 21, 2023. (Kyodo)

File photo shows Hanshin Tigers players celebrating after winning the Japan Series baseball championship at Kyocera Dome Osaka on Nov. 5, 2023. (Kyodo)

A political funds scandal involving members of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party has been picked as the top domestic news story of 2023 by senior editors of Kyodo News and its member or subscriber newspapers and broadcasters.(1) LDP's largest faction ousted from Cabinet amid political funds scandalMembers of the LDP's largest faction once led by the late Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, as well as those belonging to a faction led by former LDP Secretary General Toshihiro Nikai…READ FULL ARTICLE

LDP political funds scandal Japan's top news story of 2023

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