TOKYO -- The fundraising scandal that has sent support for Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's cabinet plummeting harks back to the Recruit bribery scandal that brought down a government in 1989.
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The fundraising scandals around Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party have invited comparisons to a politically disastrous 1989 insider trading scandal. © Kyodo
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