Takaichi faces heat over defamatory campaign video scandal

Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's administration is in political hot water due to a magazine report claiming that her campaign posted videos defaming her rivals on social media during last year's Liberal Democratic Party presidential election and this year's Lower House election.

Although Takaichi denies the report by the Shukan Bunshun weekly, the controversy has intensified with the release of audio recordings allegedly from an online meeting involving the creator of the videos and her secretary.

The opposition Centrist Reform Alliance and others are seeking to summon the secretary to parliament.

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