Farm ministry denies returned donation was illegal

Farm ministry denies returned donation was illegal

Farm minister Koya Nishikawa attends a press conference on Feb. 13, 2015, in Tokyo. Concerning a newspaper's report that a donation to the Liberal Democratic Party's Tochigi No. 2 constituency branch headed by him in September 2012 is highly likely to have been illegal, Nishikawa said he does not regard the donation, which he has already returned to a wood-processing company, as illegal. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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