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[global network report trainee reporter liu boyang] according to kyodo news and other media reports, japanese prime minister shigeru ishiba accepted an interview with the media at his official residence on the 7th and talked about the liberal democratic party political group "suigetsu kai" he once served as a representative being reported for suspected violations of "political funding". "regularizing the law", he said "there should be no clerical errors" and would take them seriously.

japanese prime minister shigeru ishiba was interviewed by the media at the prime minister’s residence in tokyo on the 7th. source: japanese media

kyodo news said that hiroyuki uewaki, a professor at kobe gakuin university in japan, submitted a letter of complaint to the tokyo district prosecutor's office on the 3rd of this month, reporting shigeru ishiba and others, accusing the "suigetsu society" of collecting money from political fund-raising banquets held from 2019 to 2021. a total of 800,000 yuan (approximately rmb 38,000) was underrecorded in the income portion of the branch report.

according to the report, shigeru ishiba responded to this in an interview on the 7th, saying, "there should be no clerical errors. i take this very seriously" and will make corrections in the future.