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This beloved family game originated as sexual foreplay in brothels: historianAn executive at Japanese publishing house Kadokawa was found guilty Tuesday of bribing a former Tokyo Olympics organizing committee member.
Yoshihara said, “Yes,” once, in accepting the verdict, but otherwise said nothing, and bowed repeatedly as he left the courtroom. The other companies are Aoki Holdings, a clothing company that outfitted Japan’s Olympic team, Daiko Advertising Inc., Sun Arrow, which made the mascots, and ADK, an advertising company.
In April, Aoki’s founder Hironori Aoki and two other company officials were convicted of handing $188,000 in bribes to Takahashi and received suspended sentences.
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