Ex-education ministry official arrested over alleged bribe-takin

Ex-education ministry official arrested over alleged bribe-takin

TOKYO, Japan - Tokyo Metropolitan Police agents show up at the education ministry on April 4 to search for incriminating evidence after Hiroshi Oshima, 59, former chief of the ministry's Facilities Planning and Administration Department, was arrested on suspicion of receiving bribes from a construction firm in return for favorable consideration on a facility improvement project for a national university. (Kyodo)

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