TOKYO, Dec 02 (Information On Japan) –
A health care provider who ran unsuccessfully within the October Decrease Home election has been arrested by the Tokyo Metropolitan Police on suspicion of promising marketing campaign employees financial compensation.
Masafumi Tabuchi, 66, who stood as a candidate in Tokyo’s twenty sixth district in the course of the October election however didn’t win a seat, was detained alongside Shigeru Kobayashi, a 37-year-old marketing campaign employee. The pair is suspected of agreeing to pay 4 people for his or her election actions.
Based on investigators, Tabuchi and Kobayashi allegedly supplied hourly wages of 1,500 yen to the employees, who have been engaged in duties corresponding to distributing leaflets. Underneath Japan’s Public Workplaces Election Regulation, it’s unlawful to supply or promise fee to marketing campaign employees.
Tabuchi additionally drew consideration on social media by posting pictures of feminine marketing campaign employees distributing leaflets whereas carrying miniskirts.
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Supply: FNN
