Police in central Japan have arrested three former nursery school teachers on suspicion of assault on young children at the school.
The suspected assaults occurred when the three women were working for Sakura Hoikuen in Susono City, Shizuoka Prefecture. They all quit by the end of November.
Former Japanese prime minister Abe Shinzo says that some previous comments he made in the Diet regarding parties held by his political support group were not factually correct and offered an apology.
Abe was speaking at a Diet committee meeting on Friday, one day after prosecutors brought a summary indictment against his secretary for allegedly misreporting income and expenditures related to the parties.
This is a developing story involving Japan's former prime minister Abe Shinzo. A secretary of Abe was indicted for breaking the law on control of political funds.
Abe held a news conference on Thursday. He apologized for the financial issues and for giving misleading answers about them in the Diet.
In an alleged political funds control law violation involving a secretary to former Japanese prime minister Abe Shinzo, Tokyo prosecutors have brought a summary indictment against the aide Haikawa Hiroyuki.
He is accused of misreporting incoming and outgoing sums totaling about 290,000 dollars connected to parties for Abe supporters.
Tokyo prosecutors have brought a summary indictment against a secretary to former prime minister Abe Shinzo over violations of the political funds law involving the politician's support group.
Haikawa Hiroyuki is accused of misreporting incoming and outgoing sums totaling about 30 million yen, or some 290,000 dollars, connected to dinner parties for Abe supporters. The gatherings were held on the eve of government-funded cherry blossom viewing events between 2016 and 2019, while Abe was in office.
Sources say Tokyo prosecutors questioned former prime minister Abe Shinzo on Monday over alleged political funding violations involving his support group.
Abe's office is said to have shouldered part of the costs of parties held for his supporters at Tokyo hotels.
A memorial ceremony has been held in Tokyo for former leprosy patients who died after years of discrimination.
The Japanese government organizes the annual event that is usually held on June 22.
Former Japanese Prime Minister Abe Shinzo has visited Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo.
Abe made the visit on Monday morning after the shrine held its autumn festival on Saturday and Sunday.
Major Japanese memory-chip maker, Kioxia Holdings, has shelved its plans to go public next week, amid growing uncertainty surrounding its business. The escalating tussle between Washington and Beijing over tech firms was behind the move.
The company is a spin-off of electronics giant Toshiba's memory chip business. Its board made the decision on Monday.
Tokyo police have arrested the former chairman of a failed health equipment dealer on suspicion of fraudulent business practices. The company allegedly solicited clients by showing them an invitation to a state-funded party that bore the name of then Prime Minister Abe Shinzo.
Police suspect Yamaguchi Takayoshi, the 78-year-old former chairman of Japan Life, and 13 others associated with the company of fraud and other infractions.
TOKYO — Former Mitsubishi Motors Chief Executive Osamu Masuko, who engineered the Japanese automaker's alliance with Nissan, has died. He was 71.
Masuko was named a special adviser to the company when he resigned for health reasons as of Aug. 7. Mitsubishi said he died of heart failure on Aug. 27.
An annual memorial service was held in Tokyo on Sunday to commemorate the Japanese who died in Soviet detention camps in Siberia and elsewhere after World War Two.
About 100 people observed a moment of silence at Chidorigafuchi National Cemetery at a ceremony organized by an association of former internees and bereaved families.
The father of a Japanese man who was abducted by North Korea in the 1970s and returned to Japan decades later has died.
Informed sources say Chimura Tamotsu died on Friday at the age of 93 at a hospital in the city of Obama in Fukui Prefecture, central Japan.
Prosecutors in Tokyo are expected to indict Lower House lawmaker and former Justice Minister Kawai Katsuyuki, along with his wife, Upper House member Kawai Anri, on charges of election law violations on Wednesday.
The prosecutors believe the couple gave about 270,000 dollars in cash to about 100 local politicians and supporters. They think the aim was to secure votes last July for the wife, who won her seat.