Word: scandalous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...SCANDAL...
...question of timing also was unclear. Takeshita, 65, said he would resign after Parliament passes the budget for the 1989 fiscal year that began April 1. But the budget has been delayed by an opposition boycott of Parliament over the stock-trading scandal...
Liberal Democratic Party Secretary General Shintaro Abe and Kiichi Miyazawa, both leading candidates when Takeshita was chosen party leader in November 1987, are considered out of the running now because of their own ties to the scandal...
Miyazawa was one of three Cabinet ministers who resigned because of links to the scandal involving Japan's giant Recruit Co., an information services conglomerate. In addition, prosecutors arrested 14 people, including two former vice ministers, on bribery or securities law violation...
...Recruit scandal broke last summer with revelations the company had sold cut-price shares in a real estate subsidiary to more than 150 politicians, bureaucrats, business leaders and media executives...