Ex-PM Shinzo Abe denies ties to yakuza after photo with Yamaguchi-gumi associate published
News On Japan via Tokyo Reporter -- Oct 17
Former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe denied he has any ties to organized crime the same day that weekly tabloid Shukan Post (Oct. 26) published a photo of the politician standing next to a known associate of Japan's largest criminal organization.
On Monday, Abe denied any links to gangsters despite his appearance in a photo from June 2008 that shows the politician being flanked on both sides by former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee and Icchu Nagamoto, a financial broker for the Yamaguchi-gumi, who was arrested earlier this year for violating money-lending laws.
「週刊ポスト」最新号で伝えられた『安倍晋三「黒い交際」写真』。まるで安倍晋三総裁が、裏社会の人間と懇意にしているかのような印象を与えるタイトルであるが、その内容を確認してみれば、東スポも呆れる羊頭狗肉振りである。
Source: Tokyo Reporter, SakuraSoTV
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