Officially approves resignation of Attorney General Kurokawa May 22, 10:46

The government officially approved the resignation of Attorney General Hiroshi Kurokawa of the Tokyo High Public Prosecutor's Office who submitted the resignation due to the issue of betting Mahjong in the state of emergency declaration at the Cabinet on February 22.

Hiroshi Kurokawa, Attorney General of the Tokyo High Public Prosecutors Office, visited a newspaper reporter's home apartment in Tokyo on the night of the 1st and 13th of this month when the request for refraining from going out continued due to the emergency declaration, and he was betting Mahjong I accepted and submitted my resignation on the 21st.

In response to this, the government officially approved the resignation of Attorney General Kurokawa at the Rotation Cabinet meeting on the 22nd. The Ministry of Justice is in a hurry to replace the new personnel.