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Top prosecutor intends to resign over gambling scandal
A top Japanese prosecutor thought to be favored by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's office intends to step down after a magazine report that he played mahjong for money and did so despite Japan's state of emergency over the new coronavirus, a judicial source said Thursday. Hiromu Kurokawa, chief of the Tokyo High Public Prosecutors Office, played mahjong for money with two reporters of the Sankei Shimbun newspaper and an employee of the Asahi Shimbun newspaper on May 1 and May 13, according to a Shukan Bunshun weekly magazine report. The state of emergency was in force nationwide at the beginning of May and remains in ... (full story)