Japan PM Suga apologises after spokeswoman resigns over expensive dinners scandal

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TOKYO, March 1: Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga apologised on Monday following the resignation of a key spokeswoman, who along with other senio...

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FILE PHOTO: Makiko Yamada and Japan Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga’s predecesstor, Shinzo Abe, smile as Abe appoints her as secretary to the prime minister in Tokyo November 29, 2013. - ReutersJapanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga apologised on Monday following the resignation of a key spokeswoman, who along with other senior bureaucrats were reprimanded for attending expensive dinners hosted by Suga’s son.

Suga’s administration and the 60-year-old spokeswoman had faced public criticism after magazine Shukan Bunshun last month reported that Suga’s eldest son, Seigo Suga, an executive at a company producing television programmes for satellite broadcaster, had paid for expensive dinners for senior bureaucrats.

“I’m very sorry that a member of my family was involved in behaviour resulting in public servants breaching the ethics law, and I apologise deeply to citizens,“ Suga told parliament. “I deeply regret that it has come to a situation, where people’s trust in the administration has been damaged”

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