TOKYO: The top bureaucrat at Japan’s finance minister quit Wednesday following allegations he sexually harassed female reporters, saying he wanted to “clear his name”.
Junichi Fukuda has denied a magazine report he harassed several women, but calls for him to step aside have grown in recent days, and Finance Minister Taro Aso said Wednesday that he had accepted the bureaucrat’s resignation.
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