Japan: ruling party takes disciplinary measures after scandal. At the center of the affair are alleged payments to members of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party.
Two other parliamentarians will lose their membership in the party for a year, and others will be suspended from functions within the political party. Opinion polls for Fumio Kishida's government are currently among the lowest since his party returned to power in 2012. The PLD said it had asked two parliamentarians caught up in the scandal - a former education minister and a party executive - to leave the party.