2020 Olympics minister says donations were appropriate

Of course there are no problems; they're politicians.

How about 23 days in jail while the J police investigate allegations of corruption..... nah, didn't think so...

Let's wait and see if this meat company lands an Olympic contract. The odds are they will.

And were they spent appropriately too?

Oh for God's sake. Change the freaken record Japan. Honestly, the "we are so honest" thing is a joke here.

Contributions and donations are the same thing. GTFO now please.

Olympics = graft. Inevitable, especially when Japan thrown into the mix.

2020 Olympics minister says donations were appropriate

Translation....... Absolutely, cross my heart hope to die, may bolts of lightning strike if I'm lying..........well best wheel out damage limitation just in case.....

Endo’s group received about 140,000 yen each from the chairman and the president of a meat company in 2013, Kyodo news agency reported on Wednesday.

Crippling deflation out of control:

Political support groups for Toshiaki Endo, who took up the newly created post of Olympics minister late last month, may have received 5 million yen in donations from four officials in a livestock firm in his political district in 2013, the Sankei Shimbun daily reported on Wednesday.

http://www.japantoday.com/category/sports/view/olympics-minister-says-reports-of-illegal-funds-completely-groundless#comment_2012580

5 million from 4 company officers is suddenly 0.28 million from only 2 officers, and it's still only Friday!

Quick, pass round the hat for impoverished Endo.

Atare mae, atare mae, atare mae taiso

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/05/09/national/media-national/keeping-yakuza-away-2020-olympics/#.VaQTJEbvcZx

Takajima Publishing released a book by Yoshinari Ichinomiya in June 2014 titled “2020 Black Money and the Tokyo Olympics” that portrays the event as an underworld party.

In a chapter titled “The Yakuza Olympics,” Ichinomiya discusses the alleged ties that Hidetoshi Tanaka, vice president of the Japanese Olympic Committee (JOC), has had to organized crime in the past. It references a September 1998 photograph of Tanaka with the former head of the Sumiyoshi-kai, the second-largest yakuza group in the country