Kiichiro Tomino, vice president of the University of Fukuchiyama in Kyoto, who is well-versed in local government. He was commenting after at least 1,200 complaints were received by the Tokyo metropolitan government regarding the cost of Tokyo Gov Yoichi Masuzoe's trips abroad, including a Y50 million inspection tour to Europe last year. (Asahi Shimbun)
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trouble
How about not going at all. Inspection tour? What is he inspecting, a continent commiting suicide by Islamic migration?
WarwickNchuaa
Y50 million inspection tour to Europe last year.
Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat? I thought this kind of theft would be done away with once Ishihara got his snout out of the prough, but no. it seems the gravy train just keeps on rolling.
It's only the little people who have to tighten our belts. The chosen one get a free ride on our backs. Bend over and take it, proles. Remember your place in this neo-feudalist village.
clamenza
Thats a $500,000 tax bill so he can "inspect" Europe on a single trip.
Unbelievable.
some14some
Inspection tour to his former wife's Europe? According to Wikipedia he had spent several years in Europe as a research fellow at the University of Paris...