Mori apologizes in Diet for giving FRC post to Kuze

Mori apologizes in Diet for giving FRC post to Kuze

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori attends a question-and-answer session on policy in the House of Representatives plenary session July 31. During the session, he apologized for giving a cabinet post to Kimitaka Kuze, who resigned July 30 as head of the Financial Reconstruction Commission (FRC) in a scandal over payments and benefits he had received from two companies.

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