VOX POPULI: No sympathy for LDP flippancy toward chair’s extortion claims (天声人語)福岡県議会のカツアゲ疑惑
Motoaki Yoshimatsu, top left, and Hideyuki Eto, bottom left, who testified to the exchange of money over posts in the Fukuoka prefectural assembly, alongside Assembly Speaker Isao Kurauchi, top right, and Vice Speaker Masayuki Nakao, who are alleged to have demanded the money, in Fukuoka’s Hakata Ward in July 2026 (Kengo Hiyoshi)