Top Japanese bureaucrat resigns after allegation of sexual harassment

Japan’s top finance bureaucrat resigned on Wednesday, Finance Minister Taro Aso said, after a weekly magazine reported that he had sexually harassed several female reporters.

Administrative Vice Finance Minister Junichi Fukuda denied the allegations, published in the Shincho magazine.

Aso told reporters that he had accepted Fukuda’s resignation.

Related Articles

Can Africa’s EV revolution support rural women?

Rice crisis: Japan releases strategic reserves to ease prices of nation’s most important food

A court orders the dissolution of the Unification Church in Japan

Up to 13K-15K visitors expected daily at Grand Egyptian Museum after full inauguration: Minister