The cherry blossom festival was fermented and Shinzo Abe was sued by about 660 lawyers and scholars

　　China News Service, May 21, according to Japanese media reports, on the 21st, around 660 lawyers and scholars across Japan filed a lawsuit with the Tokyo Procuratorate about the Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe ’s banquet on the eve of the "Cherry Blossom Festival". Abe and his cadres from the support committee filed a lawsuit.

Data Map: Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe attends the "Cherry Blossom Appreciation Meeting" held at Shinjuku Gyoen National Garden in Tokyo. China News Service issued Sun Ranshe

　　According to reports, the lawsuit pointed out that at the banquet on the eve of the "Cherry Blossom Appreciation Meeting", the average person ’s food and beverage expenses should be at least 11,000 yen, but Abe and his cadres only charged 5,000 yen per person. In addition, there is no record of the revenue and expenditure of this banquet in the Abe Political Aid's Political Funds Revenue and Expenditure Report.

　　As a result, the prosecution believes that Abe and other three persons violated the "Public Office Election Law" (donation behavior) and the Political Funds Regulation Law. Currently, the Tokyo Procuratorate is discussing whether to accept the indictment.

　　Since November 2019, Abe has been trapped in the "Cherry Blossom Appreciation Society" because he was accused of inviting people from the Abe Relief Society indefinitely. Various parties in the Japanese government and opposition have confronted the Japanese parliament several times on related topics.

　　Since 1952, the Japanese government has held a cherry blossom viewing party in the capital of Tokyo, Shinjuku Gyoen, and invited representatives from all walks of life to enjoy the cherry blossoms with the prime minister at the expense of the government.

　　During Abe's administration, the cherry blossom viewing budget increased significantly. Statistics from the Cabinet Office of Japan show that the cherry blossom viewing expenditure in 2014 was about 30 million yen, and it increased to 55 million yen in 2019. The number of participants increased from about 14,000 to 18,000.