{"id":61031,"date":"2024-01-08T14:06:58","date_gmt":"2024-01-08T05:06:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/jan\/08\/yoshitaka-ikeda-arrest-japan-prosecutors-financial-scandal-prime-minister-fumio-kishida"},"modified":"2024-01-08T14:06:58","modified_gmt":"2024-01-08T05:06:58","slug":"japan-prosecutors-make-first-arrest-in-financial-scandal-engulfing-ruling-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=61031","title":{"rendered":"Japan prosecutors make first arrest in financial scandal engulfing ruling party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tokyo district public prosecutors\u2019 office says it has arrested Yoshitaka Ikeda, a former vice-education minister<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/japan\">Japan<\/a> have made their first arrest in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/dec\/14\/japans-ruling-party-engulfed-by-political-fundraising-scandal\">financial scandal<\/a> that has engulfed the country\u2019s ruling party and sparked speculation about the future of the prime minister, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/29\/fumio-kishida-safe-pair-of-hands-for-japan-ruling-party\">Fumio Kishida<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Tokyo district public prosecutors\u2019 office said on Sunday it had arrested Yoshitaka Ikeda, a former vice-education minister, who is suspected of failing to report cash he received from fundraising events organised through his faction in Kishida\u2019s Liberal Democratic party [LDP].<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/jan\/08\/yoshitaka-ikeda-arrest-japan-prosecutors-financial-scandal-prime-minister-fumio-kishida\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tokyo district public prosecutors\u2019 office says it has arrested Yoshitaka Ikeda, a former vice-education ministerProsecutors in Japan have made their first arrest in a financial scandal that has engulfed the country\u2019s ruling party and sparked speculatio&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":344,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-japan"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/344"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61031"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61032,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61031\/revisions\/61032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}