Word: masakuni
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...SENTENCED. MASAKUNI MURAKAMI, 70, former Japanese labor minister, to 26 months in jail for taking bribes from an insurance company; in Tokyo. The former Liberal Democratic Party kingmaker was fined nearly $624,000, the amount he received for performing favors for the company, including asking questions in the Diet to promote one of the insurer's projects...
RESIGNED. TAKAO KOYAMA, 57, and MASAKUNI MURAKAMI, 68, members of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (ldp) in the Japanese parliament's Upper House, from the ldp and as head of the ldp group in the House, respectively; in Tokyo. Koyama quit after being arrested on suspicion of taking $170,000 in bribes from an insurance foundation in return for comments he made in favor of the group's activities. Murakami stepped down to take responsibility for this latest in a series of scandals to plague Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori's government...
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