Japan's ruling and opposition parties agreed Monday to abolish controversial policy activity funds that lawmakers can spend without disclosure, as part of efforts to regain public trust in politics.The agreement comes after Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba's Liberal Democratic Party, at the center of a slush money scandal, and its junior coalition partner lost their majority in the House of Representatives in the general election on Oct. 27.The LDP dropped its earlier demand to exempt some funds from disclosure and instead decided to back a bill submitted by the Constitutional Democratic Party…READ FULL ARTICLE
