Scandals Keep Hitting Japan's Finance Ministry, With Abe at Risk
- Ministry at center of two scandals threatening Abe’s survival
- Finance Minister Taro Aso faces demands that he resign
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The day after playing golf with Donald Trump this month, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was no doubt looking forward to some good press to bolster his falling approval rating. Instead, most papers were focused on scandal.
The top headlines carried news that the highest-ranking bureaucrat at the Ministry of Finance had resigned due to allegations of sexual harassment -- the second major scandal to erupt from the ministry in two months. It was another sharp blow for Abe, whose poll numbers were already threatening his political survival.