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Tokyo District Court on Thursday (January 22) sentenced an 82-year-old former chairman of major publisher Kadokawa Corp. to two and a half years in prison, suspended for four years, in a high-profile bribery case related to the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics in 2021.

The man sentenced to life in prison over the fatal shooting of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe plans to decide next week whether to appeal, a professor said after meeting with him on Thursday (January 22).

The Centrist Reform Alliance, a new Japanese political party, was formally launched on Thursday (January 22) with 165 House of Representatives lawmakers from the two founding opposition forces the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan and Komeito, a former ally of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party.