Tokyo Governor Naoki Inose has decided to step down over an undeclared 500-million-yen loan he received from scandal-tainted medical group Tokushukai ahead of the Tokyo gubernatorial election in December last year, informed sources said Wednesday.
Inose, 67, will hold a press conference Thursday morning to announce his decision to step down, the sources said. He will thus leave only a year after he won his first term as governor of the Japanese capital in the election on Dec. 16, 2012.Inose became vice Tokyo governor in June 2007, asked by Ishihara, then governor of Tokyo. He had worked as a writer before.
Source: Jiji Press
Source: Jiji Press
