Takashi Tachibana, leader of the anti-NHK political party, speaks at an Upper House election campaign rally in Kobe on July 9. (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
Takashi Tachibana, 58, head of the anti-NHK party, was arrested Nov. 9 on suspicion of defaming former Hyogo assembly member Hideaki Takeuchi by spreading falsehoods online.
He suggested Takeuchi was the “mastermind” behind the whistleblower scandal that forced Hyogo Governor Motohiko Saito out of...
