Japan: PM Suga apologizes to the country, top woman officer involved in son's 'expensive dinner' party resigns

According to our partner website WION, this case is from 2019, when Miko was the officer of Yamada Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications. Japan's current PM Yoshihide Suga's son makes television shows and works as a producer in the entertainment world. 

Tokyo: Japan's Prime Minister Yoshihida Suga has today apologized to the entire country for the work done by his son, which he did in 2019. This was the task of getting senior bureaucrats to have dinner and to pay his expensive bill. On the other hand, a top female officer who joined that party resigned from her post. The woman officer was currently the Cabinet Public Relations Secretary and her name is Miko Yamada.

 

The matter was made public last month

According to our partner website WION, this case is from 2019, when Maiko was an officer of Yamada Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications. Japan's current PM Yoshihide Suga's son makes television shows and works as a producer in the entertainment world. He gave a dinner party to 11 senior bureaucrats in 2019, about which the magazine named Shukan Bunshun published a full report last month. In this report, it was told that each bureaucrat's dinner cost 74,203 yen, ie $ 696. In Indian currency, this amount sits at about 51,000 rupees. In this way, more than 5 and a half lakh rupees were spent on the dinner of 11 people. After the report came out, he was facing a lot of opposition, after which McCoy resigned from his post.

What is the rule in Japan?

There is a rule in Japan that no government employee can take any kind of gift. Neither privately from any person, nor from any company. In such a situation, Prime Minister Suga apologized to the whole country and said that he is ashamed for the work of his son, Siego Suga and apologizes to the whole country for this.