Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is coming under increasing pressure. Three of his ministers have already had to resign because of scandals.
(dpa)
Japan’s government is rocked by a series of scandals. Three ministers have already resigned within a month. Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Monday appointed former Foreign Minister Takeaki Matsumoto as the new head of the interior department. The former Interior Minister Minoru Terada had previously had to resign because of financing scandals. His boss Kishida apologized for the repeated resignations. He is aware of the responsibility of bringing the politicians who have been fired into the cabinet in the first place.
According to observers, the renewed ministerial resignation is another blow for Kishida, whose polls have already plummeted due to criticism of the relationships of numerous politicians in his Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) with the Mun sect, also known as the Unification Church, founded by the late Korean San Myung Mun.
Just recently, Kishida had to change his justice minister. The reason was massive criticism of the minister’s controversial statements on the role of the justice minister in the execution of capital punishment. Before that, the minister for economic revival had had to leave because of his close ties to the sect.