Veteran House of Representatives member and former education minister Hakubun Shimomura said a news reporter's decision to record the top finance bureaucrat's allegedly sexually suggestive remarks and give it to a magazine was almost a criminal act, an opposition party newspaper revealed Monday.The broadcast network TV Asahi female reporter's audio recording posted on the website earlier this month of the weekly magazine Shukan Shincho has forced Vice Finance Minister Junichi Fukuda to tender his resignation.In a speech Shimomura made Sunday in Tokyo, the 63-year-old said the reporter secre…READ FULL ARTICLE
