Word: scandalous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...money laundering. Shortly before publication of the prosecutor's report, Hans Kopp, a prominent Zurich lawyer and husband of Justice Minister Elisabeth Kopp, resigned his positions as a director and vice chairman of Sharkarchi. Mrs. Kopp later resigned after admitting that she had warned her husband of the impending scandal. A criminal probe will determine whether she violated official strictures of secrecy...
Though Takeshita appeared determined to grit through the crisis, the spreading scandal -- the country's most pervasive in modern times -- may yet topple his Liberal Democratic Party government, much as a series of financial misdeeds brought down Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka in 1974. Since Recruit's involvement in influence peddling among the political bigwigs first came to | light in the press last June, 20 people have been forced to resign, including three members of Takeshita's Cabinet. The list of those implicated, numbering 155, includes not only L.D.P. and opposition politicians but also prominent members of Japan's powerful government...
...ashen face looked aged. The strain was evident as Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita faced his challengers in the Diet. The embattled Japanese leader made a series of extraordinary admissions to a special session of the Diet budget committee. Last October Takeshita flatly denied any connection to the burgeoning scandal that has linked dozens of Japanese politicians and bureaucrats to a money-and-favor game played by the Recruit Co., a $3.25 billion information-and-real-estate conglomerate. But last week Takeshita conceded that over the years he and others close to him received nearly $1 million from Recruit. Referring...
...Japan, the Recruit scandal is raising profound questions about kinken- seiji, or money politics, and the way Japan conducts its public business. On one level the issue is simple bribery. Recruit's mercurial founder, Hiromasa Ezoe, 52, nine other businessmen and three officials of the Labor and Education ministries have been arrested for alleged bribery or violation of securities law (so far no charges have been filed against any elected politician). But on another level the question is whether Japanese politics is so blatantly suffused with the passing of cash that it is practically impossible for officeholders to avoid...
...political organizations. He also admitted that Recruit bought more than $570,000 worth of tickets to two fund-raisers held for him in Tokyo and Iwate prefecture in May 1987. Such contributions are not illegal, but these may have exceeded legal limits imposed after the Tanaka scandal...