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27.03.25 - 11:30
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Ex-Japan Lawmaker Hirose Found Guilty of Fraud (Nippon)
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Tokyo, March 27 (Jiji Press)--A Japanese court on Thursday sentenced former lawmaker Megumi Hirose to 30 months in prison, suspended for five years, for defrauding the government of several million yen in salary for a secretary. Takashi Ishikawa, presiding judge at Tokyo District Court, said that Hirose, 58, went ahead with the fraud although she holds a lawyer qualification and despite her......
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28.10.24 - 00:48
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CDP Candidate Wins Japan Upper House By-Election (Nippon)
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Morioka, Iwate Pref., Oct. 28 (Jiji Press)--Eiji Kidoguchi, 61, fielded by the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, has won a by-election for the House of Councillors, the upper chamber of parliament, in Iwate Prefecture's constituency in northeastern Japan. The by-election, held Sunday, followed the August resignation of former Liberal Democratic Party member Megumi Hirose from the Up......
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30.08.24 - 10:54
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Ex-LDP Lawmaker Hirose Indicted over Alleged Pay Fraud (Nippon)
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Tokyo, Aug. 30 (Jiji Press)--Japanese public prosecutors on Friday indicted Megumi Hirose, a former lawmaker from the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, without arresting her over alleged fraud related to the salary of a publicly paid secretary. According to the indictment, Hirose allegedly submitted a false document to the House of Councillors secretariat in December 2022, pretending that sh......
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30.08.24 - 06:18
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Ex-LDP Lawmaker Hirose to Be Indicted over Alleged Pay Fraud (Nippon)
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Tokyo, Aug. 30 (Jiji Press)--Japanese public prosecutors plan to indict former Liberal Democratic Party lawmaker Megumi Hirose without arrest for alleged fraud over the salary for a publicly paid secretary, it was learned Friday. Hirose left the ruling party and resigned as a member of the House of Councillors, the upper chamber of Japan's parliament, after the scandal came to light. The......
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15.08.24 - 07:06
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Former Japanese Ruling Party Member Hirose Resigns as Lawmaker (Nippon)
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Tokyo, Aug. 15 (Jiji Press)--Former Japanese ruling party member Megumi Hirose resigned as a lawmaker of the House of Councillors, the upper chamber of parliament, on Thursday over allegations that one of her secretaries fraudulently received state funds as salaries. Hirose, 58, said in a statement that it is true that her second state-funded secretary received funds from the salary of her ......
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30.07.24 - 15:48
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Scandal-Hit Lawmaker Hirose Leaves LDP (Nippon)
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Tokyo, July 30 (Jiji Press)--Japanese lawmaker Megumi Hirose left the ruling Liberal Democratic Party on Tuesday after public prosecutors raided her offices for alleged fraud. Investigators from the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office on Tuesday raided locations related to Hirose, a member of the House of Councillors, the upper chamber of parliament, on suspicion of defrauding the gove......
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30.07.24 - 08:06
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LDP Lawmaker′s Office Raided over Alleged Aide Pay Fraud (Nippon)
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Tokyo, July 30 (Jiji Press)--Public prosecutors Tuesday searched an office of ruling Liberal Democratic Party lawmaker Megumi Hirose and other related locations including her home in Tokyo on suspicion of fraud over the salary for a publicly paid secretary to the lawmaker. Hirose, 58, a member of the House of Councillors, the upper parliamentary chamber, is suspected of defrauding the gover......
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30.06.24 - 15:48
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Reinvestigation Finds Hokkaido Girl′s Suicide Caused by Bullying (Nippon)
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Asahikawa, Hokkaido, June 30 (Jiji Press)--The suicide of a 14-year-old junior high school girl in Asahikawa, Hokkaido, northern Japan, in 2021 is highly likely to have been caused by bullying, a committee set up by the city to investigate the death said Sunday. "If there had been no bullying, suicide would not have occurred," the committee said of the death of Saaya Hirose, who was found f......
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