Outspoken former foreign minister Makiko Tanaka rapped Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Wednesday for planning to visit the United States next month to meet President Donald Trump to discuss North Korea, saying he is doing so to divert attention from a domestic scandal."He probably wants to escape" from the scandal over a cut-price state land sale to a school operator with ties to Abe's wife Akie, Tanaka told a press conference at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan.Abe and his government are under renewed scrutiny over the suspected coverup of a sweetheart land sale in 2016. The Finance …READ FULL ARTICLE
