1,402 bureaucrats received favors from cabbies, 151 punished

1,402 bureaucrats received favors from cabbies, 151 punished

TOKYO, Japan - Chief Cabinet Secretary Nobutaka Machimura speaks at a news conference at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on June 25. Machimura said that a total of 1,402 ministry and agency bureaucrats have received favors in such forms as cash and cans of beer from taxi drivers when being taxied home late at night after work using taxpayer money, adding that the government has punished 151 of them. (Kyodo)

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