Английская Википедия:Cherry blossom scandal

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Shinzo Abe and Akie Abe standing in Shinjuku Gyoen under cherry blossom trees, pointing at the distance
Shinzo Abe and Akie Abe at a Shinjuku Gyoen governmental cherry blossom viewing party in 2017

The cherry blossom scandal (Шаблон:Lang-ja), also known as the cherry blossom party scandalШаблон:Sfn or the cherry blossom viewing scandal, was a political scandal in Japan involving Shinzo Abe, the then-prime minister of Japan, and the mismanagement of political funds regarding his constituents from Yamaguchi.

Original events

Since 1952, every April the Japanese government has held annual parties to view cherry blossoms.Шаблон:Sfn Between 2015 and 2019, then-prime minister of Japan Shinzo Abe was alleged to have had his political "support group" pay for the dining expenses for his constituents from Yamaguchi Prefecture. According to Justin McCurry in The Guardian, citing the Asahi Shimbun, Abe's constituents paid five thousand yen each for dinner in hotels the night before the events, and that Abe's support group contributed 9.16 million to the total cost of 23 million yen for the dinners.Шаблон:Sfn According to The Spectator's Philip Patrick, the viewing parties between 2016 and 2019 were subsidized with 30 million yen by Abe's support group.Шаблон:Sfn In the 2019 event, it was alleged that Abe had brought 850 people from his own constituency, leading to allegations of cronyism.Шаблон:Sfn At the event that year, on 13 April, 18 thousand attendees were invited, and the 850 who dined with Abe did so at the Hotel New Otani for five thousand yen.Шаблон:Sfn According to The Mainichi, Abe's support group funded at least 33 dinners from 2019 to 2020.Шаблон:Sfn Abe's successor as Prime Minister, Yoshihide Suga, ended the annual cherry blossom viewing parties upon taking office.Шаблон:Sfn

Legal accusations

Within the National Diet of Japan, there were multiple legal accusations against Abe for his involvement in the scandal. The scandal broke when opposition lawmakers accused Abe of covering for guests at an expensive Tokyo hotel in one of the parties in 2018, to which the guests only paid five thousand Japanese yen.Шаблон:Sfn In November 2019, Tomoko Tamura, a Diet member affiliated with the Japanese Communist Party, accused Abe of mishandling funds regarding the cherry blossom viewing parties.Шаблон:Sfn On 24 November 2020, the Research Bureau of the House of Representatives of Japan published, as requested by opposition parties in the Diet such as the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, a report alleging that Abe had provided false accounts of spending during diet sessions in 2019 and 2020.Шаблон:Sfn The opposition parties, spurred by JCP Diet member Toru Miyamoto, who raised questions about the 2019 guest list, also questioned whether organized crime figures attended the parties, as the guest list was shredded.Шаблон:Sfn The Abe government defended itself, saying that the shredding of the guest list was not a result of Diet allegations. 72% of the public, according to a poll by The Mainichi, did not accept this explanation.Шаблон:Sfn The scandal was seen as a possible violation of the Political Funding Law in Japan.Шаблон:Sfn

In 2020, according to a poll by Kyodo News, 53 percent of voters for Abe's party, the Liberal Democratic Party, believed he should testify, while 43 percent did not.Шаблон:Sfn After Abe's resignation as Prime Minister in 2020, prosecutors declined to indict him for payments made to attendees to the cherry blossom viewing parties, but did press charges against one of his involved aides, Hiroyuki Haikawa, with failing to report 11.6 million yen in payments from guests and a 18.7 million yen payment to the hotel in the cherry blossom parties.Шаблон:Sfn

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