Lavish dinners with Suga's son trip up Japanese bureaucrats

11 face reprimands after probe uncovers the scope of wining and dining

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Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga has apologized for his son's involvement in the wining-and-dining scandal.

JUNNOSUKE KOBARA, YUKI FUJITA and RYUTO IMAO, Nikkei staff writers

TOKYO -- Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga's eldest son repeatedly hosted expensive dinners for communications ministry bureaucrats, spending thousands of dollars. Now 11 of the officials are facing punishment for ethics violations.

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