June 18, 2020, Tokyo, Japan: Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks during a press conference at the prime minister’s official residence. Japan’s longest-serving leader has been powerless to prevent a chain of events, including the coronavirus crisis, from eroding public confidence in his leadership and administration. Now Thursday’s arrests of his close aide and former justice minister Katsuyuki Kawai and his wife on suspicion of vote buying in the 2019 upper house election come as another blow.
Scott Mc Kiernan, Founder & Editor-in-Chief, ZUMA Press
