{"id":9992,"date":"2025-11-04T18:07:42","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T18:07:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/jip-co-leader-refuses-to-resign-over-%c2%a521-million-payment-to-secretarys-firm\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T18:07:42","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T18:07:42","slug":"jip-co-leader-refuses-to-resign-over-%c2%a521-million-payment-to-secretarys-firm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/jip-co-leader-refuses-to-resign-over-%c2%a521-million-payment-to-secretarys-firm\/","title":{"rendered":"JIP co-leader refuses to resign over \u00a521 million payment to secretary\u2019s firm"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Japan Innovation Party co-leader Fumitake Fujita said Thursday he will not step down from his post following revelations that he paid &yen;21 million to his secretary&rsquo;s company, mainly to print political leaflets.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;That&rsquo;s my intention,&rdquo; Fujita said when asked at a news conference if he would continue to serve as the JIP&rsquo;s co-leader.<\/p>\n<p>Fujita&rsquo;s decision to continue was supported by party leader Hirofumi Yoshimura, who told reporters earlier Thursday that Fujita didn&rsquo;t need to resign over the incident.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><sub>JIP co-leader refuses to resign over &yen;21 million payment to secretary&rsquo;s firm<\/sub><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japan Innovation Party co-leader Fumitake Fujita said Thursday he will not step down from his post following revelations that he paid &yen;21 million to his secretary&rsquo;s company, mainly to print political leaflets. &ldquo;That&rsquo;s my intention,&rdquo; Fujita said when asked at a news conference if he would continue to serve as the JIP&rsquo;s co-leader. Fujita&rsquo;s decision&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/jip-co-leader-refuses-to-resign-over-%c2%a521-million-payment-to-secretarys-firm\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;JIP co-leader refuses to resign over \u00a521 million payment to secretary\u2019s firm&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9993,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}