On Thursday (15th), the Tokyo Electric Power Company of Japan provided further clarification on the cause of the nuclear waste water leakage at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, stating that it was due to human error on Wednesday (7th). Last Wednesday, about 5.5 tons of radioactive contaminated water leaked from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant's water purification system. According to Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO), the leak occurred on Thursday morning in the high-temperature incinerator building while the facility was cleaning and treating contaminated water from the reactor building with the "second cesium adsorption system" to reduce radiation levels in preparation for maintenance. The system is connected to the external wall's exhaust vent, through which the contaminated water leaked. According to TEPCO, two operators from collaborating companies failed to notice the open state of a valve and missed relevant reminder signs before starting t...
The ruling Liberal Democratic Party of Japan is facing growing controversy as several high-ranking officials are accused of withholding information on political donations and kickbacks. The Tokyo District Public Prosecutor's Office Special Search Department will file charges against the former accountant of the Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's faction (Koji-kai) on Friday (19th) for suspected violation of the Political Funds Control Act.
According to a report by Kyodo News on Thursday (18th), the former accounting manager of the Kishida faction is suspected of not reporting approximately 30 million yen (approximately 159.3 million Hong Kong dollars) in income and expenses for a period of three years until 2020. Sources revealed that the former accounting manager may not have been aware of which member of parliament sold the banquet tickets, and therefore did not include them in the income and expenses report. It is possible that these funds were used for factional expenses, and not distributed as kickbacks like in the Abe faction (Seiwa Policy Research Institute). No similar issues were found in the income and expenses reports for 2021 and 2022 after the change in accounting managers. Kishida responded by stating that this was a cumulative administrative error and has already submitted a revised income and expenses report to the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications.
In addition, the chairman of the second-tier faction (Shishaikai), former Secretary General of the Liberal Democratic Party Toshihiro Nikai, did not hand over the excess income from the banquet ticket sales target to the faction, but instead accumulated it and did not include it in the financial report. The special search department is currently investigating the suspicion of violating the Political Fund Control Law and filing a case against the secretary of the second-tier faction, with the unreported amount possibly reaching tens of millions of yen.
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