Ishiba is pending in front of a recovery scandal

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba received funds from a supporter of over 30 million yen funds and did not announce them in his reports on political funds. The Shukan Bunshun Weekly Magazine reported on Wednesday in his online edition.

The chief cabinet secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi, the spokesman for the Prime Minister, told the same day to a press conference that Ishiba's office had told the magazine that “the political means had properly treated in accordance with the laws and regulations and the reports of income and expenditure”.

According to the magazine article, the supporter said that he paid millions of Yen every year to buy fundraisers between 2003 and 2014, and gave the Ishiba campaign several times when he ran for the presidency of the ruling liberal democratic party. The man also said that the total amount of money he gave to the Ishiba page should be estimated on at least 30 million yen (208,000 US dollars).

After the recess scandal, in which Ishiba met, Yoshihiko Noda, the chairman of the Japanese oppositional constitutional democratic party, expressed his willingness to seek the prime minister's declaration before the political ethics council of the House of Representatives.

“We have to clarify it thoroughly,” said Noda.