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Japanese ex-lawmaker Kono in China

Japanese former House of Representatives speaker Yohei Kono (front, L) and Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng (front, R) walk to the venue of their meeting in Beijing on July 1, 2024.

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Japanese ex-lawmaker Kono in China

Japanese former House of Representatives speaker Yohei Kono (L) and Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng (R) hold talks in Beijing on July 1, 2024.

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Ex-lawmaker Tokuda

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows Takeshi Tokuda, a former member of the House of Representatives. Prosecutors filed a lawsuit on April 4, 2014, seeking to ban Tokuda from running in a general election for the lower house from a single-seat constituency in Kagoshima Prefecture for five years. Tokuda, a son of major hospital chain Tokushukai founder Torao Tokuda, resigned as a lower house member in February after his illegal election campaign came to light.

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Ex-lawmaker Narazaki dies

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in October 1988 shows House of Representatives lawmaker Yanosuke Narazaki asking questions in the Diet related to the Recruit stock-for-favors scandal. His family said on Feb. 29, 2012, that Narazaki had died. He was 91.

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Ex-lawmaker Suzuki released on parole

TOKYO, Japan - Former House of Representatives member Muneo Suzuki (L) shakes hands with Ichiro Ozawa, former leader of the ruling Democratic Party of Japan, during a party in Tokyo on Dec. 6, 2011, held to celebrate his release earlier in the day on parole from a prison in Tochigi Prefecture. Suzuki was imprisoned in December 2010 for bribery and other offenses.

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Ex-lawmaker Suzuki released on parole

TOKYO, Japan - Former House of Representatives member Muneo Suzuki holds a press conference in Tokyo on Dec. 6, 2011, following his release earlier in the day on parole from a prison in Tochigi Prefecture. He was imprisoned in December 2010 for bribery and other offenses.

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Ex-lawmaker Suzuki released on parole

TOKYO, Japan - Former House of Representatives member Muneo Suzuki (R) is released on parole from a prison in Tochigi Prefecture on Dec. 6, 2011, after being imprisoned in December 2010 for bribery and other offenses.

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Ex-lawmaker Sato dies

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in 1999 shows former lawmaker Koko Sato who died of biliary cancer on May 18, 2011, at the age of 83. Sato was arrested over a high-profile bribery scandal involving Lockheed Corp. in the 1970s.

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Ex-lawmaker Suzuki before jailing

TOKYO, Japan - Former House of Representatives lawmaker Muneo Suzuki (L), leader of the New Party Daichi, pays homage at Meiji Shrine in Tokyo on Dec. 6, 2010, before his expected incarceration for bribery and other crimes.

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Ex-lawmaker Suzuki prior to imprisonment

KUSHIRO, Japan - Muneo Suzuki, a former Japanese House of Representatives lawmaker, cries during a gathering in his constituency Kushiro, Hokkaido, on Dec. 4, 2010, after talking about his upcoming imprisonment. Suzuki was convicted of four charges including bribery.

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Ex-lawmaker Nagata commits suicide in Fukuoka

FUKUOKA, Japan - Former House of Representatives member Hisayasu Nagata (in file photo), who resigned as a parliamentarian in April 2006 after using a fake e-mail message to grill a ruling party lawmaker, jumped to his death from an apartment building in an apparent suicide in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture, on Jan. 3.

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Ex-lawmaker, America expert Motoo Shiina dies at 76

TOKYO, Japan - Motoo Shiina (in a photo taken in June 2004), a former lawmaker and leading authority on Japan-U.S. relations, died of pneumonia at a Tokyo hospital on March 16, his family said on march 23. He was 76.

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Ex-lawmaker, ex-power utility chief run for Okinawa governor

NAHA, Japan - Keiko Itokazu speaks during a street election campaign in Naha on Nov. 2 after filing her candidacy for the Nov. 19 Okinawa gubernatorial election. Itokazu, former member of the House of Councillors, is supported by the opposition parties.

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Ex-lawmaker, ex-power utility chief run for Okinawa governor

NAHA, Japan - Hirokazu Nakaima, 67, former vice governor and former chairman of Okinawa Electric Power Co., speaks during a street election campaign in Naha on Nov. 2 after filing his candidacy for the Nov. 19 Okinawa gubernatorial election. Nakaima is supported by the ruling coalition parties.

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Incumbent Tanaka, ex-lawmaker Murai run for Nagano governor

NAGANO, Japan - Incumbent Yasuo Tanaka speaks at his election campaign office in Nagano after filing his candidacy for the Aug. 6 Nagano gubernatorial election.

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Incumbent Tanaka, ex-lawmaker Murai run for Nagano governor

NAGANO, Japan - Former Liberal Democratic Party lawmaker Jin Murai (far right) inspects the area in Okaya, Nagano Prefecture, which has been damaged by heavy rain, after filing his candidacy for the Aug. 6 Nagano gubernatorial election.

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Ex-lawmaker Suzuki to make comeback to lower house

SAPPORO, Japan - Scandal-tainted former lawmaker Muneo Suzuki celebrates Sept. 11 in Sapporo as he is certain to regain his parliamentary seat in the day's House of Representatives election. Suzuki ran in the election in the proportional representation block in Hokkaido from his newly launched New Party Daichi, based in Sapporo.

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Ex-lawmaker Suzuki launches new party in Hokkaido

ASAHIKAWA, Japan - Muneo Suzuki (C), a former Liberal Democratic Party lawmaker, smiles during a ceremony launching a new political party, Shinto Daichi (new party big earth), Aug. 18 in an effort to take a House of Representatives seat in the Sept. 11 general election.

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Ex-lawmaker Suzuki launches new party in Hokkaido

ASAHIKAWA, Japan - Muneo Suzuki, a former lawmaker of the Liberal Democratic Party, speaks during a ceremony to launch a new political party, Shinto Daichi (new party big earth), Aug. 18 in an effort to take a House of Representatives seat in the Sept. 11 general election.

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Ex-lawmaker Suzuki launches new party in Hokkaido

ASAHIKAWA, Japan - Muneo Suzuki (R), a former lawmaker of the Liberal Democratic Party, greets supporters during a ceremony to launch a new political party, Shinto Daichi (new party big earth), Aug. 18 in an effort to take a House of Representatives seat in the Sept. 11 general election.

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Ex-lawmaker Suzuki loses in upper house election

SAPPORO, Japan - Muneo Suzuki, a former House of Representatives member on trial on bribery and other charges, meets reporters in Sapporo on July 11 after he failed to win in the House of Councillors election.

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Ex-lawmaker Kumagai lectures at university

HAMAMATSU, Japan - Former New Conservative Party (NCP) leader Hiroshi Kumagai, who has become a lecturer at Hamamatsu University in Shizuoka Prefecture, takes his first class on April 12. Kumagai retired from politics after failing to be reelected to the House of Representatives from the Shizuoka No. 7 district.

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(5)Ex-lawmaker Sato arrested in pay embezzlement scandal

KANIE, Japan - Investigators on March 7 search for evidence at the home of former House of Representatives lawmaker Kanju Sato in Kanie, Aichi Prefecture, on March 7 after he was arrested for allegedly embezzling some 17 million yen from the state intended as salary for one of his secretaries.

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(4)Ex-lawmaker Sato arrested in pay embezzlement scandal

ICHINOMIYA, Japan - Investigators on March 7 search for evidence at the office of former House of Representatives lawmaker Kanju Sato in Ichinomiya, Aichi Prefecture, on March 7 after he was arrested on suspicion of embezzling some 17 million yen from the state intended as salary for one of his secretaries.

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(2)Ex-lawmaker Sato arrested in pay embezzlement scandal

NAGOYA, Japan - Former House of Representatives lawmaker Kanju Sato speaks to reporters in Nagoya March 7 ahead of police questioning on allegations he embezzled some 17 million yen from the state intended as salary for one of his secretaries.

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(1)Ex-lawmaker Sato arrested in pay embezzlement scandal

NAGOYA, Japan - Former House of Representatives lawmaker Kanju Sato speaks to reporters in Nagoya March 7 ahead of police questioning on allegations he embezzled some 17 million yen from the state intended as salary for one of his secretaries.

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Bullet sent to ex-lawmaker Suzuki's Tokyo office

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows a building housing the office of former lawmaker Muneo Suzuki in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward. Police said Oct. 20 that a letter containing a rifle bullet was sent Oct. 19 to the office, together with a message calling him a ''traitor.'' The message was signed from ''Kenkoku Giyugun Kokuzoku Seibatsutai'' which roughly means ''nation-building volunteers corps to conquer traitors.''

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(2)Ex-lawmaker Tsujimoto indicted over fraud case

TOKYO, Japan - Takako Doi, leader of the opposition Social Democratic Party (SDP), speaks to reporters in the SDP headquarters in Tokyo on Aug. 8 after former SDP policy chief Kiyomi Tsujimoto and Masako Goto, Doi's former policy secretary, were indicted on charges of defrauding the state.

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Ex-lawmaker Koyama indicted in KSD scandal

TOKYO, Japan - Former House of Councillors member Takao Koyama (file photo) is indicted Feb. 6 on charges of accepting 20 million yen in bribes from the scandal-hit mutual-aid foundation KSD. Koyama left the ruling Liberal Democratic Party on Jan. 16 and quit as a lawmaker Jan. 29.

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Disarmament advocate and ex-lawmaker Utsunomiya dies

TOKYO, Japan - Tokuma Utsunomiya, a former Diet member and advocate of disarmament, died of pneumonia on July 1 at a hospital in Sagamihara, Kanagawa Prefecture, his family said. He was 93. The Kyodo News file photo was taken in 1989. Utsuomiya, a native of Tokyo, is known for founding the monthly magazine ''Gunshuku Mondai Shiryo'' (Data for Disarmament Issues) in 1980, using his own funds.

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Pro-wrestling icon, ex-lawmaker Inoki dies at 79

File photo shows Japanese wrestler-turned-parliamentarian Antonio Inoki posing in Tokyo on May 11, 2016. Inoki died on Oct. 1, 2022, at 79.

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Pro-wrestling icon, ex-lawmaker Inoki dies at 79

File photo shows Japanese wrestler Antonio Inoki (R) taking on world boxing champion Muhammad Ali at the Nippon Budokan hall in Tokyo on June 26, 1976. Inoki died on Oct. 1, 2022, at 79.

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Pro-wrestling icon, ex-lawmaker Inoki dies at 79

File photo shows Japanese wrestler-turned-parliamentarian Antonio Inoki (R) posing at Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang in July 2014. Inoki died on Oct. 1, 2022, at 79.

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Ex-lawmaker Yoshida pleads guilty to buying votes in election

TOKYO, Japan - Former Liberal Democratic Party lawmaker Yukihiro Yoshida arrives at the Tokyo District Court on Nov. 9. He pleaded guilty to a charge of buying votes in a House of Representatives election in 2003 in which he lost his seat. (Kyodo)

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Incumbent Tanaka, ex-lawmaker Murai run for Nagano governor

NAGANO, Japan - Former Liberal Democratic Party lawmaker Jin Murai (far right) inspects the area in Okaya, Nagano Prefecture, which has been damaged by heavy rain, after filing his candidacy for the Aug. 6 Nagano gubernatorial election. (Kyodo)

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Incumbent Tanaka, ex-lawmaker Murai run for Nagano governor

NAGANO, Japan - Incumbent Yasuo Tanaka speaks at his election campaign office in Nagano after filing his candidacy for the Aug. 6 Nagano gubernatorial election. (Kyodo)

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Ex-lawmaker, ex-power utility chief run for Okinawa governor

NAHA, Japan - Keiko Itokazu speaks during a street election campaign in Naha on Nov. 2 after filing her candidacy for the Nov. 19 Okinawa gubernatorial election. Itokazu, former member of the House of Councillors, is supported by the opposition parties. (Kyodo)

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Ex-lawmaker, ex-power utility chief run for Okinawa governor

NAHA, Japan - Hirokazu Nakaima, 67, former vice governor and former chairman of Okinawa Electric Power Co., speaks during a street election campaign in Naha on Nov. 2 after filing his candidacy for the Nov. 19 Okinawa gubernatorial election. Nakaima is supported by the ruling coalition parties. (Kyodo)

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Ex-lawmaker, America expert Motoo Shiina dies at 76

TOKYO, Japan - Motoo Shiina (in a photo taken in June 2004), a former lawmaker and leading authority on Japan-U.S. relations, died of pneumonia at a Tokyo hospital on March 16, his family said on march 23. He was 76. (Kyodo)

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Ex-lawmaker Nagata commits suicide in Fukuoka

FUKUOKA, Japan - Former House of Representatives member Hisayasu Nagata (in file photo), who resigned as a parliamentarian in April 2006 after using a fake e-mail message to grill a ruling party lawmaker, jumped to his death from an apartment building in an apparent suicide in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture, on Jan. 3. (Kyodo)

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4-year prison term sought for ex-lawmaker Suzuki

TOKYO, Japan - Former House of Representatives member Muneo Suzuki, charged with taking 11 million yen in bribes from two Hokkaido companies, speaks to reporters in Tokyo on July 14 after prosecutors demanded a four-year prison term for him. (Kyodo)

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Ex-lawmaker Suzuki gets 2-year prison term

TOKYO, Japan - Former Liberal Democratic Party lawmaker Muneo Suzuki arrives at the Tokyo District Court on Nov. 5. He was sentenced to two years in prison and fined 11 million yen for taking bribes from Hokkaido companies, not reporting political donations, and perjury. (Kyodo)

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High court cuts prison term for ex-lawmaker Nakajima

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Yojiro Nakajima, a former member of the House of Representatives, who was given a reduced sentence by a high court Sept. 28 for taking bribes, vote-buying and fraud. The Tokyo High Court changed his prison sentence to two years, shaving six months off a term imposed in July 1999 by the Tokyo District Court.

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2.5-year jail term sought for ex-lawmaker Yamamoto

TOKYO, Japan - Joji Yamamoto, a former House of Representatives lawmaker and former member of the main opposition Democratic Party of Japan, walks into the Tokyo District Court on Dec. 26. Prosecutors demanded a prison sentence of two and a half years for Yamamoto who is charged with defrauding the government of some 25.5 million yen in public funds by falsely registering a 51-year-old woman as a government-paid secretary.

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Writer, ex-lawmaker Nosaka dies at 85

File photo shows award-winning writer and former House of Coucillors lawmaker Akiyuki Nosaka attending an upper house question-and-answer session in 1983. Nosaka died at a Tokyo hospital on Dec. 9, 2015, at 85. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Writer, ex-lawmaker Nosaka dies at 85

File photo shows award-winning writer and former House of Coucillors lawmaker Akiyuki Nosaka singing on stage in December 1974. Nosaka died at a Tokyo hospital on Dec. 9, 2015, at 85. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Writer, ex-lawmaker Nosaka dies at 85

File photo taken in July 2000 shows award-winning writer Akiyuki Nosaka during an interview at his home in Tokyo. Nosaka, also a former House of Councillors lawmaker, died at a Tokyo hospital on Dec. 9, 2015, at 85. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ex-lawmaker Suzuki meets with captain of captured boat

Former Japanese lawmaker Muneo Suzuki (L) and Democratic Party of Japan lower house member Takako Suzuki attend a press conference in Japan's northeastern city of Nemuro on July 27, 2015, after visiting crew members of Japanese fishing boat Hoko Maru No. 10, which was seized by Russian authorities. The two visited Kunashiri and Shikotan islands on a visa-free visit. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ex-lawmaker brokers resale of N. Korean 'embassy' building in Tokyo

Former upper house member Toshio Yamauchi speaks in an interview with Kyodo News on Jan. 29, 2015, about a real estate company's resale of the Tokyo headquarters building of the pro-Pyongyang General Association of Korean Residents to another firm. A realty company operated by Yamauchi acted as a go-between for the deal, enabling the association to use the building again as North Korea's de facto embassy in Japan in the absence of diplomatic ties between the two countries. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ex-lawmaker Suzuki to make comeback to lower house

SAPPORO, Japan - Scandal-tainted former lawmaker Muneo Suzuki celebrates Sept. 11 in Sapporo as he is certain to regain his parliamentary seat in the day's House of Representatives election. Suzuki ran in the election in the proportional representation block in Hokkaido from his newly launched New Party Daichi, based in Sapporo. (Kyodo)