Kono instructs new team to look further into scandal

Kono instructs new team to look further into scandal

TOKYO, Japan - Foreign Minister Yohei Kono is surrounded by reporters at the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo on Feb. 7 after the first meeting of two senior vice foreign ministers and three parliamentary foreign secretaries tasked with thoroughly probing alleged embezzlement of public funds by a ministry official.

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