Japan has long struggled with corrupt ties between its politicians and businesses. It is said that they experience one such major scandal every ten years every time leading to calls for reform.

At the end of the 1980s, Japan experienced one of their most serious such scandals the Recruit Scandal.

It touched all of Japan’s political, economic, and social elites. Its widespread nature signaled a deeply corrupt system going all the way up to the Prime Minister himself.

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