Japanese media gave Katsuyuki Kawai and his wife Anri preferential treatment for their arrival at the Tokyo courthouse on Thursday. A few hours after the end of the parliamentary session, this couple of deputies were arrested for paying bribes during a local election campaign.
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If the sums are relatively modest (26 million yen, or 216,000 euros, distributed among 94 people), the case is a thunderbolt in the country because of the proximity of the accused to power. From the first circle of Shinzo Abe, loyal among the faithful, Katsuyuki Kawai is a kind of duplicate of the Prime Minister, with whom he shares the same ideological hardware where neighboring far right ideas and international ambition. " Shinzo Abe is a realist with two faces: nationalist in foreign policy, globalist in economics," he said in 2019 to Le Figaro.
Former diplomatic advisor and Minister of Justice, He notably organized the year
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