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The Japan News/Yomiuri
The Japan News/Yomiuri
Politics
The Yomiuri Shimbun

Kishida sacks Terada, 3rd minister in month

Former Foreign Minister Takeaki Matsumoto speaks to reporters at the Prime Minister's Office in Tokyo on Monday after being appointed the next internal affairs and communications minister. (Credit: The Yomiuri Shimbun)

For the third time in a month, a member of Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's Cabinet has resigned.

A political funds scandal led to Internal Affairs and Communications Minister Minoru Terada's ouster on Sunday, as Kishida made him tender his resignation.

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