Regarding the entertainment issue by the presidents of NTT, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications comprehensively made inquiries directly to other telecommunications and broadcasters at the opposition party's meeting at the stage when there was no specific beginning such as the declaration of staff. He realized that it would be difficult to investigate.
Opposition parties such as the Constitutional Democratic Party were briefed by a person in charge of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications after it was revealed that executives of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications had received illegal entertainment from the presidents of NTT.
Among them, the opposition party pointed out that "the response was insufficient" based on the fact that NTT's entertainment was not revealed in the investigation conducted in response to the entertainment problem by the satellite broadcasting related company, and other I wondered if there was any idea to expand the scope to telecommunications and broadcasters.
In response, a person in charge of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications said, "It is difficult to comprehensively investigate without some kind of beginning." He acknowledged that it would be difficult to make inquiries and conduct a comprehensive investigation.
In addition, the opposition party said that Makiko Yamada, a former Cabinet Public Relations Secretary who was present at the dinner with NTT at the time of her tenure as General Affairs Deputy Director, also requested an investigation, but the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications has already retired. He expressed the idea that he had no plans to investigate directly.