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Takaichi Appoints LDP Slush-Fund Suspects to Cabinet Posts
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- Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi appointed two lawmakers implicated in the LDP slush-fund scandal to Cabinet posts.
- The appointed lawmakers are members of Japan’s House of Representatives.
- They are the first punished LDP members to become Cabinet ministers since the scandal.
- The LDP warned that the Oct. 5 extraordinary parliamentary session could spotlight money-politics issues.