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- <text id=92TT0168>
- <title>
- Jan. 27, 1992: World Notes:Japan
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
- Jan. 27, 1992 Is Bill Clinton For Real?
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- WORLD, Page 38
- World Notes
- JAPAN
- A Scandal by Any Name
- </hdr><body>
- <p> In Japan's chronic influence-peddling scandals, only some of
- the names seem to change. Last week another probe into the
- governing Liberal Democratic Party's pervasive cronyism ended
- in the arrest of Fumio Abe, one of Prime Minis ter Kiichi
- Miyazawa's most senior political allies and a party stalwart.
- He was seized on suspicion of having illegally pocketed more
- than $540,000 from the Kyowa Corp. for helping the steel-frame
- maker win lucrative contracts.
- </p>
- <p> The Prime Minister called the arrest, the first of an
- incumbent Diet member since the Lockheed bribery scandal of the
- 1970s, "regrettable indeed." For Miyazawa, whose government
- recently suffered legislative setbacks, the case resurrects
- memories that he and his party would rather keep buried. Along
- with other leading officials, he resigned three years ago during
- a notorious bribery affair involving the Recruit
- information-services empire. Opposition parties plan to dissect
- the latest mess amid news reports of more ruling-party misdeeds.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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