Hokkaido executive made 70 trips last year to explain policy to Representative Hasegawa, costing approximately 5.5 million yen. It has been revealed that the expenses incurred by the four people on business trips to Tokyo and other places amounted to approximately 5 million yen last year.
Hokkaido has said that it carried out its work appropriately in all necessary business trips, it is expanding the scope of its interviews regarding Mr. HaseGawa's words and actions to ascertain the facts.