China News Service, December 27. According to the Asahi Shimbun report, on the 27th local time, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida accepted the resignation submitted by Minister of Reconstruction Kenya Akiba who was caught in political funding problems.
It is reported that Fumio Kishida will determine the successor on the same day.
According to Japan's Kyodo News, Akiba Ken is also the fourth cabinet member to resign from the Kishida cabinet since October. The situation is very rare.
Kyodo News stated that there is news that Akiba Kenya's political group paid his wife and mother a total of 14 million yen in the so-called "office rent", and his mother did not make a definitive declaration.
It is also reported that Akiba Ken also donated 6 million yen to a political group represented by his wife's brother.
In addition, there are media reports that Akiba Ken also paid his secretary in the election of the House of Representatives last year, saying that this move is suspected of violating Japan's "Public Office Election Law".
According to Kyodo News, Akiba Ken was also elected as a proportional representative in the House of Representatives in the Northeast and has been elected 7 times so far.
Belongs to the Motegi faction of the Liberal Democratic Party.
He served as an assistant to the prime minister in the Abe cabinet, and became a cabinet member for the first time during the cabinet reshuffle in August this year.