TOKYO (REUTERS) – Japan’s finance minister is considering skipping a Group of 20 finance leaders’ gathering in Buenos Aires next week, Kyodo news agency reported, as a suspected cover-up of a cronyism scandal paralyses parliament and puts his job on the line..
TOKYO (REUTERS) – Japan’s finance minister is considering skipping a Group of 20 finance leaders’ gathering in Buenos Aires next week, Kyodo news agency reported, as a suspected cover-up of a cronyism scandal paralyses parliament and puts his job on the line.
Premier Shinzo Abe and his close ally, Finance Minister Taro Aso, are under pressure over the finance ministry’s announcement it had altered records of a discounted sale of state-owned land to a school operator with ties to Abe’s wife.
