Japanese media: Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi was accused of violating the Political Funds Regulation Act

Xinhua News Agency, Tokyo, June 23 (Reporters Li Ziyue and Liang Chen) Hiroyuki Uewaki, a professor at Japan's Kobe Gakuin University, disclosed on social media on the 22nd that Japanese Prime Minister Takaichi Sanae and his secretary Kinoshita Tsuyoshi were suspected of violating the "Political Funds Regulation Act" and had false records in political fund income and expenditure reports. Uewaki had reported this to the prosecutor's office.

Through an investigation into the internal account books of the Gaoshi office, Kamikaze discovered that the Gaoshi camp was suspected of recording the funds used by corporate executives to purchase political fund-raising party tickets as personal political donations, thus causing false records in the political fund income and expenditure report. In addition, since ticket buyers can enjoy income tax deductions in the name of “donations”, this behavior is also suspected of tax evasion and assistance in tax evasion.

The information available to us shows that this type of operation can be traced back to more than ten years ago and is a long-term, organized behavior. Therefore, he determined that the behavior was "evil in nature" in his report and statement of circumstances.

At the end of 2023, Japan's Liberal Democratic Party was exposed to a "black money" scandal. Some factions required their members to sell political fundraising party tickets according to quotas, and return the excess to the members in the form of "kickbacks." However, the relevant funds were not registered in the political fund revenue and expenditure report, becoming unregulated secret funds.

After Takaichi took office as Prime Minister in October 2025, she not only appointed many politicians involved in the "black gold" scandal to important government positions, but she was also prosecuted in December of the same year for illegally accepting corporate political donations, causing strong dissatisfaction in Japanese society. Japanese public opinion believes that Gao Shi has a vague attitude on the issue of "black gold" and has no intention of fundamentally correcting it.