Japan PM Takaichi under pressure over gifts to MPs | Metals Mine

  • Japan PM Takaichi under pressure over gifts to MPs

    From channelnewsasia.com

    Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi was under pressure on Wednesday (Feb 25) after it emerged she gave congratulatory gift catalogues to lawmakers from her ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) following its landslide election victory this month. More than 300 lawmakers were given the option to choose an item from the catalogue "as an expression of appreciation for their success at this very tough election", Takaichi wrote in a post on X, saying that no taxpayer money was used. The revelation evokes a slush fund scandal that engulfed the LDP in 2023, sinking then-premier Fumio Kishida and fuelling voter anger that ... (full story)

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DadydeFather
Feb 25, 2026 7:49am
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People are just jealous they didnt get anything
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Polimini
Feb 25, 2026 10:52am
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what the hell is wrong with Japan?
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Subdude
Feb 25, 2026 7:41pm
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Who can blame her? She's merely applying what she learned in Corruption 101 taught by Prof. Trump!
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Trader#5EBF
Feb 25, 2026 7:48am
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Quoting Trader#8E01
She is corrupt to the bone. First she steals trillions by making the yen crash the she uses government money to give gifts to rich lawyers while citizens cab barely afford rice to eat
yet she is so popular that she won elections. The Japanese are all hype about her bcos first female PM.
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Trader#8E01
Feb 25, 2026 9:03am
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Quoting Trader#5EBF
{quote} yet she is so popular that she won elections. The Japanese are all hype about her bcos first female PM.
But at the same time when you ask elderly people on the street they are crying they can't afford paying there bills saying she all talk no action she's popular with the younger generation who earn money doing TikTok and only fans what do they know about paying bills and working a real job
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Trader#5EBF
Feb 25, 2026 10:06am
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Quoting Trader#8E01
{quote} But at the same time when you ask elderly people on the street they are crying they can't afford paying there bills saying she all talk no action she's popular with the younger generation who earn money doing TikTok and only fans what do they know about paying bills and working a real job
she's the asian liz truss. But how did she win so many votes if elderly ppl not happy with her?
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Trader#A5E7
Feb 25, 2026 12:14pm
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Quoting Trader#8E01
{quote} But at the same time when you ask elderly people on the street they are crying they can't afford paying there bills saying she all talk no action she's popular with the younger generation who earn money doing TikTok and only fans what do they know about paying bills and working a real job
IE she's popular with people with income and not unemployed outdated old people.
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Trader#10C0
Feb 25, 2026 1:00pm
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Those youngster who voted for her are too crazy and hopeless actually they do not know what her policies of running in government to become the female PM and just because she is female lolzzzzzz she likes to interfere with the BOJ matters lolzzzzz GG
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Trader#8E01
Feb 25, 2026 7:32am
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She is corrupt to the bone. First she steals trillions by making the yen crash the she uses government money to give gifts to rich lawyers while citizens cab barely afford rice to eat
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Trader#8E01
Feb 25, 2026 9:05am
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Quoting Ferna
Give them gifts! she is just being nice We need to stop this witch-hunt!
no no witch hunt needs to come back. Burn her i say burn her
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Trader#0D1A
Feb 25, 2026 9:17pm
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She is learning so much from her friend Prof. Trump very good in manipulating…… she does not know how to run country economy…… zZzzz GG
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