Hiroyuki sarcastically comments on the money that Sanae Takaichi, a candidate for the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly, has been collecting… Mizuna Sugita is talking about how she spends her money.

Is there anything wrong with considering this as “spending on entertainment?

Sanae Takaichi ran for the LDP presidential election. While she is very popular among conservative voters and is expected to become the first female prime minister in history, an incident occurred on social networking sites that put a damper on her campaign.

The LDP presidential election requires 20 nominees from the Diet, and Hiroyuki and Hiroyuki Nishimura, both of whom are known as “Hiroyuki” in Japanese, were quoted in SpoNichi’s “The LDP presidential election, backstabbing.

In the LDP presidential election, Takaichi ranked first in the number of endorsers with 13, Kato 4, Mogi 2, Koizumi and Kamikawa 1, and 4 with zero endorsers.

The article quotes the following

The “slush fund” members of the Diet who endorse Takaichi’s candidacy

Mr. Takaichi is the heir to the LDP’s slush fund politics. Of the 20 nominees, 13 are money-laundering councilors, which is shallow.

If Mr. Takaichi wins, the worries of the money-loan councilors will surely disappear.

The irony of the situation was tinged with sarcasm. Among them, Sugita Mizuta (Lower House proportional to the Chugoku bloc) was a hot topic on X.

Sugita corrected herself for not noting that she had received a total of 15.64 million yen in donations from the Abe faction over a five-year period through ’22.

One X-user said.

I don’t understand why “Mizuna Sugita needs back taxes. She’s a proportional member of the lower house, right? I can understand spending money for the popular constituency, the councilor’s constituency, and the proportional constituency, but why does someone who is running for the popular proportional constituency need to spend money for the proportional constituency? I can only assume he’s using it for entertainment.

Another user wrote

Please show me proof that you are using the money for entertainment.

Another user countered, “Please show me proof that you are using the money for entertainment.

Behind the “non-prosecution” of the councilor with slush funds: ……

The user who made the original post then replied

Yes, I understand. I understand. This is the corrected portion of the political fund balance report that Mizuta Sugita submitted to the Election Commission after the discovery of the back taxes case. As you can see, if you look at the corrected section of “Expenditures,” it is mostly made up of expenditures on snacks and expenditures on department stores. Is there anything wrong with considering these as “expenditures for entertainment?”

with evidence. When the reporter again viewed Mr. Sugita’s income and expenditure report, she found that the corrections had been added by hand.

He spent approximately 700,000 yen at Isetan Mitsukoshi in Ginza on four occasions. It appears that the kicked-back, undocumented back taxes were spent at the department store. In addition, he also spent tens of thousands of yen each on meeting expenses, including fees for a snack bar, a bar, a horse meat restaurant, and a campsite in Yamaguchi Prefecture.

The former correspondence expenses alone amounted to ¥1 million per month, for which no receipts were required. In July, prosecutors dropped charges against 16 members of the Diet for back taxes. Meanwhile, Representative Taro Kono, who is running for president, has pledged to abolish year-end tax adjustments and require all taxpayers to file tax returns. The Internet was ablaze with accusations that “it is the LDP members who should be filing tax returns.

(A reporter for a national newspaper). Will the presidential election improve the “politics and money” problem?