Japanese ministers quit over kickbacks scandal


TOKYO: Four Japanese ministers tendered their resignations on Thursday (Dec 14) as unpopular Prime Minister Fumio Kishida (pic) reels from a major corruption scandal in the ruling party.

The cabinet crisis comes after allegations of kickbacks of 500 million yen (US$3.4 million) in the faction-riven Liberal Democratic Party, which has governed the world's third-largest economy almost uninterrupted for decades.

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