Japan’s reconstruction minister resigns following funding scandal

Daishiro Yamagiwa, Yasuhiro Hanashi, Minoru Terada — and now Kenya Akiba.

Reconstruction minister Akiba on Tuesday grew to become the fourth minister in about two months to be pressured to resign from Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s administration following a political funds scandal.

Kishida wished to nip the difficulty within the bud earlier than the subsequent parliamentary session convenes subsequent month, with opposition occasion questioning over the scandal prone to have delayed the passage of the funds for the fiscal yr from April had Akiba stayed on.