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TOKYO: Makiko Yamada, a key spokesperson for Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, will resign after she and other high-ranking bureaucrats were reprimanded for attending the expensive dinners hosted by Suga’s son, the government said.
Yamada will present his resignation on Monday (March 1), Japanese government spokesman, Chief Cabinet Secretary Katsunobu Kato told reporters.
Suga’s administration, including 60-year-old Cabinet Public Relations Secretary Yamada, has faced public anger after Shukan Bunshun weekly magazine reported last month that Suga’s eldest son Seigo Suga, a An executive at a film company, he had paid for expensive dinners for senior bureaucrats.
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Japan’s National Civil Service Ethics Law prohibits government employees from receiving gifts or entertainment from companies or individuals that may be considered favorable.
Some local media reports also said that Yamada had been admitted to the hospital, meaning that she will miss a parliamentary committee meeting on Monday where opposition politicians were expected to question her about a dinner with Seigo Suga in 2019, when she was an official in the Ministry of the Interior. Affairs and Communications.
