Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi drew criticism from opposition parties on Wednesday after admitting to distributing congratulatory gift catalogs to all of her party's House of Representatives lawmakers elected in the Feb. 8 general election, while denying any illegality.In a parliamentary session, Takaichi said her local chapter of the Liberal Democratic Party used its political funds to send to each of her party's 315 lawmakers booklets listing gifts that they could order, with an allocation of around 30,000 yen ($190) per person."We donated the gifts as the (LDP) branch of the Nara…READ FULL ARTICLE
