Responding a call “Next on the line!” new Minister of
Economy, Trade and Industry took one step forward. Within scandal-suffering
Shinzo Abe Cabinet, METI Minister, Yoichi Miyazawa, was spotlighted as a victim
of next scandal. His office had paid for a sado-masochistic bondage bar from
his budget of governmentally-procured political funds. While the people was
wondering how that kind of bar was related to his political activity, Miyazawa
insisted on denying his visit, saying “I don’t have such a taste.” We are not
interested in your private sexual behavior, Mr. Minister.
According to political money report, Miyazawa’s money
management organization spent about ¥18 thousand at a bondage bar in Hiroshima
city in 2010. Because there was no mistake in the report, it was not illegal.
However, everybody would wonder why the office of a member of House of
Councillors had to pay political money for a bar with a taste of perverted sex.
Miyazawa had to explain about his money immediately. “I have
not been there and I don’t know the name of the bar,” told Miyazawa, “It looks
like someone in my office falsely spent it.” It is understandable for a staff
to make a false description. But it was a false spending. Acknowledging it or
not, Miyazawa admitted that his office actually paid political money for the
bar.
Another arrow pierced him. The opposite parties started
accusing Miyazawa of possessing six hundred stocks of Tokyo Electric Power
Company, an ailing enterprise after breaking up its First Fukushima Nuclear
Power Plant. METI is deeply involved in energy policy and closely connected
with TEPCO’s interest. After the disaster in Fukushima, TEPCO was salvaged from
jeopardy of bankruptcy, with a cause of maintaining economic stability. At that
time, bankruptcy would cause great confusion, because TEPCO’s property must
firstly be sold for compensation for stockholders, inviting money shortage in
compensation for sufferers of the accident in Fukushima.
As a stockholder, Miyazawa is doubted to promote protective policies
for TEPCO. On this issue, Miyazawa made a strange comment again. “I am making a
process for entrusting my stocks, not to trade while I am on this job,” told
Miyazawa. It is not about whether you will sell your only six hundred stocks.
It’s about that you are a stakeholder of TEPCO’s future.
It was an event happened just a few days after former METI
Minister had stepped down and Miyazawa succeeded. An embarrassing label on new
METI minister would be greedy man on sex and money.
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