Ex-Aide to Japan Premier Charged in Bribery Case
- Share via
TOKYO — Authorities Wednesday arrested a former official who had worked in the prime minister’s office and charged him with accepting bribes.
Tokyo prosecutors said that Tetsuaki Hashimoto, 58, who had been in charge of the annual budget for government publicity since 1979, allegedly received a total of $800,000 in cash from various advertising firms.
More From the Los Angeles Times
Podcasts
This episode examines what we know about what happened between the Lachman Fire and the Palisades Fire, and the missteps and miscommunication that may have led to one of California’s most destructive fires in history.
Marvin Margolis was a promising early suspect in the Black Dahlia murder, but he managed to slip through the cracks. So who was this man of many pseudonyms?
Not for want of trying – cleaner power has created lots of engine experiments, most dramatically Caltech versus MIT in the great electric car race of 1968, a story you’ll hear from the winner.
