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By Takahito Higuchi, Kota Ifuku and Toru Inoue / Yomiuri Shimbun Staff Writers
15:58 JST,
March 16, 2025
The distribution of gift certificates by Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has shaken the prime minister’s political support base in regional areas. The revelations come as the Liberal Democratic Party, of which Ishiba is president, was already trying to recover from the damage caused by a politics and ...