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Honma urged to resign post Some Cabinet ministers effectively urged Masaaki Honma on Dec. 19 to resign as chairman of a key government tax panel over a weekly magazine report that he had lived with a woman other than his wife at a government-sponsored condominium in Tokyo.
But Chief Cabinet Secretary Yasuhisa Shiozaki and Finance Minister Koji Omi defended Honma, who has moved from the condominium. They encouraged him to fulfill his duties as chairman of the key panel that works out tax reform proposals. Hidenao Nakagawa, secretary-general of the ruling Liberal-Democratic Party, said he supports Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's stance that Honma should fulfill his duties.
The Japan Times Weekly: Dec. 23, 2006 |
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