{"id":6628,"date":"2020-05-21T11:40:56","date_gmt":"2020-05-21T11:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=6628"},"modified":"2026-04-24T05:04:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T08:04:10","slug":"tokyo-prosectuor-illegally-gambling-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/tokyo-prosectuor-illegally-gambling-japan","title":{"rendered":"Tokyo head prosecutor caught illegally gambling"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Hiromu Kurokawa has resigned after he was accused of illegally gambling during Japan&#8217;s Covid-19 state of emergency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Japan.- Tokyo head prosecutor, Hiromu Kurokaw, has resigned after he was accused of illegally gambling during Japan&#8217;s state of emergency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The head of the Tokyo High Public Prosecutors Office was caught playing mahjong for money on May 1 by two reporters from Japanese news outlets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This was despite <strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/shinzo-abe-state-of-emergency-japan\">a state of emergency<\/a><\/em><\/strong> is in place due to the Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the Japanese government&#8217;s ruling coalition parties, Komeito, called for the prosecutor&#8217;s resignation as a result of the sting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Noritoshi Ishida, policy head of Komeito, stated: &#8220;If [the report] is true, he cannot continue his duties.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hiromu Kurokawa has resigned after he was accused of illegally gambling during Japan&#8217;s Covid-19 state of emergency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6632,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Hiromu Kurokawa, Tokyo's head prosecutor, resigned following accusations of illegal mahjong gambling for money during Japan's Covid-19 state of emergency. This incident, exposed by Japanese news outlets, prompted calls for his resignation from a ruling coalition party, Komeito, highlighting a significant breach of public trust by a senior legal official.","focusai_entities":"Hiromu Kurokawa, Komeito, Noritoshi Ishida","focusai_location":"Japan, Tokyo","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.8), regulator (0.9), compliance_legal (0.9), operator_casino (0.7), investor_analyst (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Regulatory Impact Japan","query":"What are the potential long-term implications of this high-profile resignation on the regulatory timeline and public acceptance for Japan's Integrated Resort (IR) development?"},{"label":"Governance Frameworks","query":"How might this incident influence the scrutiny of ethical conduct and governance frameworks within public service roles overseeing or interacting with regulated industries?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[161,16338,439],"tags":[470,4503,14999],"class_list":["post-6628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-news","category-east-asia-news","category-legal-news","tag-japan","tag-legal","tag-tokyo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6628"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20027,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6628\/revisions\/20027"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}