The World - News from April 6, 1989
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Japanese Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita received more than $370,000 in 1987 from a company linked to a widening bribery scandal, the Kyodo News Service reported. It said Recruit Co. paid $376,000 for two fund-raising parties held in May, 1987, to support Takeshita’s election campaign. Takeshita has confirmed to Parliament that the Recruit firm bought $150,000 in tickets for a fund-raising party in Tokyo. But in response to the new reports, he said he did not remember an additional $226,000 in tickets bought by the firm a week later.
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