JT appoints former MOF bureaucrat Wakui as chairman

JT appoints former MOF bureaucrat Wakui as chairman

TOKYO, Japan - Japan Tobacco Inc. (JT) said April 28 it has unofficially appointed Yoji Wakui (in file photo), the disgraced former director general of the Finance Ministry's Budget Bureau, as its chairman to succeed Tadashi Ogawa in June. Wakui resigned from the ministry after it emerged that he received an expensive lithograph as a wedding gift from a businessman who was later indicted on charges of evading taxes.

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