Japanese lawmaker Imai reportedly having affair with local assemblyman

Eriko Imai, a member of the House of Councillors from the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, bows in apology while meeting the press at the party headquarters in Tokyo on July 27, 2017, following reports that the 33-year-old single mother, a former member of the female vocal-dance group SPEED, has been having an affair with a 37-year-old married man, who is an LDP member of the Kobe municipal assembly. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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