Kishida’s non-answers show politics lags business in scandal response

TOKYO — Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida gave little new information at Thursday’s hearing on the political funds scandal that has shaken his Liberal Democratic Party, highlighting a glaring gap with private-sector companies that are more adept at crisis control.

During questioning before the lower house political ethics committee, Kishida largely repeated information from fact-finding interviews by the LDP of lawmakers allegedly involved in the scandal, reports on which had already been made public earlier in February.