Journalist Tachibana dies at 80

Journalist Tachibana dies at 80

Photo taken Dec. 25, 2013, shows critic and journalist Takashi Tachibana giving an interview in Tokyo. Tachibana, whose investigative reporting played a vital role in revealing a bribery scandal involving the late Japanese Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka in the 1970s, died of acute coronary syndrome aged 80 on April 30, 2021.

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