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magazine on 6 August 2005, three Sokkai Gakkai members and former
Komeito politicians were accused by Yano of having threatened him and forcibly searched Yano's entire home without his permission in order to steal some 100 "black notebooks" from his house, all of which contained private "observations
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Yano admitted at a press conference that he exchanged 200 million yen in cash with
Atsushi Ishida, the former managing director of Meidenko, at Yano's home, but insisted that Yano was only a mediator in the transaction. In May 1989, the Asahi published a statement by Kogo Nakase, a former Meidenko
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pursued suspicions that 200 million yen had been exchanged at Yano's home in connection with the stock trading of a company affiliated with
Meidenko. Yano denied the allegations. On 10 December 1988, Yano filed a complaint against the Asahi Shinbun for libel, but withdrew it on 23 March 1989.
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Supreme Court's Third Petty Bench further confirmed the appeal and recognised Yano's claim of invasion of privacy and order the notebooks to be returned.
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by the end of the year. However, Deng expressed a number of strong criticisms of the
Japanese side during these talks, and Japanese authorities were reportedly upset that Deng was willing to discuss these issues with an opposition politician such as Yano instead of with the
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advisor, in which he claimed that the transaction was direct and not a mediation. Yano steadfastly denied this, calling it an "unfounded and trumped-up remark founded upon malice." The Asahi
Shinbun became to publish writings in which they asked whether Yano should resign.
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which accused
Tanigawa of threatening Yano. Tanigawa claimed that the charge was completely false, and his lawsuit against Yano requested ¥11,000,000 in damages and a published apology advertisement in the magazine and national newspapers. On 20 January 2011, the
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invited Yano as a witness to discuss the relationship between Soka Gakkai and
Komeito, as well as to describe the harassment he has claimed to experience from Soka Gakkai ever since he began to criticise the organisation. This move was criticised by Komeito, and
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of asserting excessive control over
Komeito, as a means of crushing dissent, instead arguing alongside other party leaders that he was removed because he had been found accepting bribes as high as $ 264,000 (in 1988 USD, as reported by
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On 11 March 2015, he helped to co-found
Satoyama / Sōmō no Kai, a political organisation that focused on issues such as regional revitalisation and solving income inequality. Some of its other co-founders were former prime ministers
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secretary general Ryosaku Sasaki. This was conceived as a plan in which the three parties might come to power through a coalition government. Further talks of cooperation occurred the following year, as well as in 1976, when
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and behind-the-scenes details" over his 30 years in the House of Representatives. The three defendants argued that there was no coercion and that the notebooks were obtained with permission from Yano. In December 2007, the
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and landed in first place with 75,775 votes, or 16.9% of the ballots. He was appointed secretary general of Komeito following a provisional party convention almost immediately after the election.
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Treaty of Peace and Friendship between Japan and China
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