Kyuma photographed with high-level gangster

Kyuma photographed with high-level gangster

TOKYO, Japan - Fumio Kyuma (sitting), acting policy research council chairman of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), is seen in a photo taken in October 1997 with a man (2nd from L) linked to the Yamaguchi-Gumi yakuza group in the room of the director general of the Defense Agency in Tokyo. At that time, Kyuma served as Defense Agency chief.

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