Charges dropped against Kishida, other LDP members in slush fund case

Wow, what a surprise!

No surprise there !

The corrupt support the corrupt.

The sleaze from these people knows no bounds.

Prosecutors decided Monday not to indict Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and seven other senior Liberal Democratic Party members over a political funds scandal..

Of course they did. Did anyone expect any other outcome?

Such a big furore at the beginning too. But all for show.

What surprise, ahem

Prosecutors decided Monday not to indict Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and seven other senior Liberal Democratic Party members over a political funds scandal that has dogged Japan's ruling party since last year, citing a lack of evidence,

Short addenda as a news story, two tier justice system, waiting until about a year so the main content has passed out of the public consciousness, coming after another predictable election victory for the LDP.

The legal and political system working as intended.

In the Tokyo assembly vote also held on Sunday, the backed LDP members won only two seats out of the possible nine.

Voters do not forget all those scandals

surprise surprise.

In the meanwhile, they hold regular citizens in custody for 20 days to gather information and keep extending it for as long as they need, thus hold people hostage. How many politicians have gone to prison in the last 20 years?

Can I have my money back please ?

Foreigners are unfairly taxed here, without representation!

The untouchables get away with it again. Cue Judge Dread, “I am the law!”

The reason the Japanese need to vote the corrupt LDP out of power! The judiciary is a joke beholden to the LDP!

Hold all of them until they confess, isn’t that what is done to normal people?

The Japanese system doesn't require any Supreme Court pantomime. The fix is built in behind the scenes down in the basement with the shredders where corruption goes "to die".

That just smells so bad!

So, if I pay large amounts of money, as a citizen of Japan to politicians then I get to influence them over and above a citizen that doesn’t pay?

And it is all legal?

When is it illegal?

Never?

What is the law for, to be ignored?

Is this what a democracy in Japan looks like?

What a grave insult this is to the Japanese people!

The prosecutors have no wish to compromise their post-retirement incomes in advisory committees and other positions which they customarily take.

Japan is now an officially corrupt country. Kickbacks are legal, folks!

Note that this was announced one day AFTER the Tokyo elections.

I would say unbelievable. But we all knew it would happen.

Yet another scandal in making to cover up previous scandal ...

(Each evidence has a price to it)

he's immune!

Fish rots from the head!

I see quite a few similarities between all politicians from all over the world, they all seem to line there own pockets, yet seem to be above the law, and the hard working class get trod on, and politicians get this stigma of liers etc then they can't work out why the common man doesn't vote for them. It's because we're all sick and tired of them and politics, most places if your lucky get 60% turn out,

Well of course. Because he literally told them to do so.

citing a lack of evidence

If there was a lack of evidence, why did this case come out into the light to begin with?

Wait you mean the people suspected of a crime that then were able to investigate themselves and found themselves not guilty of a crime didn’t get any charges pressed against them. Shocking

Oh my dog, what an absolute surprise, the Japanese judicial system at its corrupt best. What next for Kashida,  The Order of the Chrysanthemum, he has earned it by now, his level of corruptness has no equal.

Another scandal.

No surprises here.

Beyond question the LDP is not on the up and up.

Prosecutors decided Monday not to indict Prime Minister Fumio Kishida

Prosecutors got PAID OFF on Monday.

In exchange, they will not indict Prime Minister Fumio Kishida.

How about that heatwave, huh?

And they'll go after some pensioners for stealing a loaf of bread.

Because rules are rules, just rules aren't rules if you are making the rules.

Morally bereft.

The arrogant disrespect for the people of Japan, for the electorate is breathtakingly appalling.

A total sham, every step of the way,

Political corruption, from a ruling government that has placed itself above the law without recrimination, without any judicial process, from any executive, legislative, or administrative actions to hold this ruling LDP government subject to review.

Slush funds that to this day are still a total mystery as to their use, without any judge lead open court judicial review published investigation.

If the J people wish to have government duplicitous, deceitful, then society will decay sooner or later.

In the Tokyo assembly vote also held on Sunday, the backed LDP members won only two seats out of the possible nine.

Voters do not forget all those scandals

Then how/why the heck are the LDP still in power?

A corrupt system, juridical, economical and political makes it impossible to enjoy life in Japanese society. On of the worlds most beautiful countries gets destroyed by it all

The Japanese system doesn't require any Supreme Court pantomime. 

Sometimes, the U.S. system doesn't require it either.

For example, if you're an 81-year-old U.S. president, a special counsel won't recommend charges against you when you've clearly violated the law by having classified documents in your garage. Documents that date back to when you were not president.

That's because the special counsel will figure that you'll just pass yourself off as a sweet old man with a poor memory.

Meaning that you're mentally competent to be president, but you're not mentally competent to stand trial for a clear crime.

Where’s your Bushido honor Japan?

Chief prosecutor Unemoto didn't prosecute most of unjust slush fundraising LDP politicians despite illegal, and LDP government promoted Unemoto to attorney general.

Japanese major media didn't even mention its corrupted relation, mere emphasized "first female attorney general".

Separation of powers at Japan is completely destroyed, "mechanism" that ruling party LDP politicians will be never punished whatever they did was built.

I had a dream a while ago that they were all given prison sentences. Mori used the wheelchair excuse, but it didn't work. But sadly it was only a dream...

Slush funds that to this day are still a total mystery as to their use, without any judge lead open court judicial review published investigation.

Investigators and prosecutors of course asked them how the slush fund is used and ldp probably showed them exactly how.

It's good to see Kishida's photo in the CRIME section.

Charges Dropped!!

This is what happens when the prosecutors are NOT independent.

Color me surprised!