Hatoyama fails to declare Y72 mil in income from stock sales

Monday 02nd November, 12:22 PM JST

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thepro at 06:27 PM JST - 2nd November

You don't have to know the stock market to make money just selling stock. Who knows how much he unloaded.
USNinJapan2 at 07:09 PM JST - 2nd November

Beelzebub

I have heard of hyperbole. Looks like you need to work on your hyperbola while I work on my sense of humor.
bluecactii at 07:30 PM JST - 2nd November

I wonder what would happen if I got caught failing to declare Y72 mil in income... I'm sure it'd be cool if I apologized...
bilbobaggins at 07:38 PM JST - 2nd November

I've got nothing but praise. To make 72 million yen from stock sales in 2008 was some achievement. He certainly knows the stock market even in a global economic recession. Wonder what stock he bought and sold. I think the real problem is that he never expected to become PM after hiding this income.

short sell indexes financials and commods after the lehman bankruptcy. many non credit desks killed it in 08
bigwave at 07:51 PM JST - 2nd November

More like democratically elected PM meets entrenched bureaucracy. If there is any dirt on this guy, they will find it and exploit it.

It begins......
PepinGalarga at 08:13 PM JST - 2nd November

If it's a personal matter, then why does he use government resources to manage it? Either way he is losing.

Either he knew about it and lied, or someone in his government payroll did it (which in itself needs to be reported). Either way he should fire himself, not just the secretary.
bobbafett at 08:16 PM JST - 2nd November

bigwave nailed it. Hatoyama is finding out who is the boss and the Japanese public are doing head, ostrich, sand. any other 1st world country and the people would erupt into chaos.
eigonosensei at 08:45 PM JST - 2nd November

"..blamed the false entries on his secretary.."

Typical.
noborito at 09:41 PM JST - 2nd November

Wonder if I could get away with that? Bet they would throw me in Jail faster than anything. As for the blame, always blaming the women or foreigners for everyone's problems.
Apsara at 10:36 PM JST - 2nd November

How do you know the secretary was a woman? In Nagato-cho the secretaries are quite often men.
cow76 at 11:07 PM JST - 2nd November

At the time I'm writing this, the top story is about a celebrity I hadn't heard of until a few weeks ago. The PM didn't pay tax on 72 million yen? Lucky some halfwit 'talento' didn't adopt a puppy or we'd never have found out.
dolphingirl at 11:33 PM JST - 2nd November

This is under 'politics' but shouldn't it be under 'crime'!? He blames it on someone else and apologizes and that's it!? I'm shocked.
Foxie at 12:16 AM JST - 3rd November

He must have had a lot of VW shares, they were hitting the roof last year around this time.
ca1ic0cat at 12:47 AM JST - 3rd November

I wish I had Y72M to declare. But an apology will fix that, eh? I guess all politicians are corrupt. It just never ends.
Simon_Foston at 09:19 AM JST - 3rd November

If this drip-drip-drip of stories about Hatoyama's finances continues the DPJ are going to start wishing they'd picked Okada to be party president instead of doing whatever Ozawa told them.