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‘Political earthquake’: Embattled Japan PM Kishida wields axe in purge over fund-raising scandal
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The unfurling controversy is piling pressure on Japan PM Fumio Kishida’s government, whose Cabinet support has plunged to new lows.
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TOKYO - Japan’s beleaguered Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, feeling the heat over a deepening political fund-raising scandal
Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno, 61, the second top-ranked official in government, and Economy Minister Yasutoshi Nishimura, 61, got the axe, alongside two other ministers, five deputy ministers and one parliamentary vice-minister. Three senior ruling party executives also left their posts.
