Japan scandal
The internal affairs minister in Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s government was forced into resigning over funding irregularities yesterday, in a blow to the scandalprone Cabinet that has already lost two ministers in one month. Internal Affairs Minister Minoru Terada has been under fire over several accounting and funding irregularities. In one, he acknowledged that one of his support groups submitted accounting records carrying a dead person’s signature. Terada’s resignation is a further blow to the Cabinet already shaken by the