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Anthony Kuhn

Party bosses fall in Japan's worst political corruption scandal in decades

Investigation officials from Tokyo's district prosecutors office head to an office of a Liberal Democratic Party faction led by politician Toshihiro Nikai, on Tuesday. (Kyodo via Reuters Connect)

SEOUL, South Korea — Japan's governing Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) on Friday replaced two of its top executives, as part of a purge related to the worst corruption scandal to rock the country in three decades.

The outgoing executives were in charge of policy and parliamentary affairs. They belonged to an LDP faction — a sort of party within a party — formerly led by the late ex-Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.

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