Japan's new Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba (front centre) posing during a photo session with the members of his cabinet in sagging pants and an untidy patch of white shirt under the morning suits in this Oct 1 photo. - AFP
TOKYO: Japan's government admitted on Monday (Oct 7) to manipulating an official photo of the new cabinet to make its members look less unkempt, after online mockery of their sagging trousers.
Images taken by local media showed what appeared to be an untidy patch of white shirt under the morning suits of Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba and Defence Minister Gen Nakatani.
