Prime Minister Fumio Kishida suffered another blow in Japan’s widest-ranging political scandal in decades with the arrest of a ruling party lawmaker on Sunday.
Kishida told reporters Sunday that he was aware of the detention of Yoshitaka Ikeda, a member of the Liberal Democratic Party’s biggest faction, and called it “very regrettable, and we take it very seriously.” Ikeda will be expelled from the party, Kishida said.