Mere days after Yuko Obuchi, the hottest woman in the Japanese Cabinet, tended her resignation from the post of METI head, now comes another scandal perhaps with the potential to sink another powerful minister in the government.
Obuchi’s replacement, Yoichi Miyazawa, spent some of his “expenses” in an “SM Bar” in Hiroshima City, it has emerged. The money was spent in the BDSM club in September 2010 but has only emerged today with a political expenses report, which recorded a bill for ¥18,230 (around $200) for a session at the club.
Obuchi’s short tenure running METI was also ended by an expenses scandal, though hers involved theater visits for constituents, a drop in the water compared to the whips of Miyazawa.
“We are still investigating the facts but have confirmed from the records that the minister himself did not go,” according to the new minister’s office. A likely story! If that’s the case, what on earth was the receipt doing in the minister’s expenses claims?!
“I heard about this for the first time through a news wire article,” the minister told the press pack. “I didn’t go myself. My office made a mistake and submitted it with the expenses.”
It may cost him his political reputation. It would have been far cheaper to have got a rope bondage personal sex toy instead!
