Prime Minister of Japan, Shinzo Abe, yesterday suffered a blow to its economic plan with the resignation of Economy Minister. Akira Amari decided to stop the political activity one week after being accused of corruption by the media.
Amari announced his resignation at a press conference but denied having acted illegally. The Japanese Minister of Economy apologized for causing “concern and problems” and jeopardize public confidence in the Abe government. “Japan is finally getting out of deflation. To create a strong economy we need to take certain essential laws in parliament and all obstacles should be eliminated. I am no exception,” said Amari, 66, during the press conference.
The Japanese journal Weekly Bunshun found that Amari and his aides have accepted a bribe of 12 million yen (93,000 euros) for a construction company.
Minister of economy since 2002, Amari was considered the government’s key man of Prime Minister Abe and one of the architects of the economic plan – Abenomics – thought to pull Japan out of deflation in the past two decades has kept the economy stagnant Japanese.
According to Mariko Hi, BBC correspondent in Tokyo, fiscal policies and structural reforms of the new economic plan Abe did not convince many people and the resignation of the minister of the economy comes up even more questions concerning the designs of Japanese Prime Minister: “It is probably the biggest scandal that the Abe administration has faced”
The successor to the Amari in office will be Nobuteru Ishihar, former Minister of the Environment <. / p>
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