Japan's top finance bureaucrat resigned last week over allegations of sexual harassment, saying the pressure meant he was unable to do his job.
But Mr Junichi Fukuda, who was administrative vice-finance minister, has insisted that the report in the weekly Shukan Shincho magazine was untrue and that he would sue for libel.
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