JAPAN: Funding scandal blamed for minister's death

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Updated May 28, 2007 20:16:45

A growing political scandal in Japan has apparently led to the suicide of one of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's senior ministers. The agriculture minister Toshikatsu Matsuoka was found hanged in a building near Japan's parliament.

Rob Sharp

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Presenter:
Speakers: North Asia Correspondent Shane McLeod in Tokyo

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