{"id":4304,"date":"2021-02-22T12:33:24","date_gmt":"2021-02-22T08:33:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/?p=4304"},"modified":"2021-02-22T12:33:26","modified_gmt":"2021-02-22T08:33:26","slug":"japan-pm-apologizes-for-sons-dinner-with-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/japan-pm-apologizes-for-sons-dinner-with-officials\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan PM apologizes for son&#8217;s dinner with officials"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Japan&#8217;s Prime Minister\u00a0<strong>Yoshihide Suga<\/strong>\u00a0apologized at a House of Representatives&#8217; Budget Committee session, saying, &#8220;I feel very sorry that my eldest son was involved and public servants violated their ethics code as a result,&#8221; <strong>&#8220;Q\u0130A.AZ&#8221;<\/strong>\u00a0informs, citing TASS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nine more communications ministry officials have been found to have been treated to expensive meals by a son of Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, the ministry said Monday, further widening the scandal that has already brought four senior bureaucrats under scrutiny.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The ministry&#8217;s internal probe results found that 11 of the 13 government officials have or are highly likely to have received favors from a stakeholder in violation of the National Public Service Ethics Law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They have been wined and dined on a combined 39 occasions by Seigo Suga of Tohokushinsha Film Corp. This company offers satellite broadcasting services for which the ministry issues broadcast licenses, it said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japan&#8217;s Prime Minister\u00a0Yoshihide Suga\u00a0apologized at a House of Representatives&#8217; Budget Committee session, saying, &#8220;I feel very sorry that my eldest son was involved and public servants violated their ethics code as a result,&#8221; &#8220;Q\u0130A.AZ&#8221;\u00a0informs, citing TASS. Nine more communications ministry officials have been found to have been treated to expensive meals by a son of&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/japan-pm-apologizes-for-sons-dinner-with-officials\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Japan PM apologizes for son&#8217;s dinner with officials<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4306,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4304\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}