日: 2020年12月25日

1. Former Japanese prime minister Abe Shinzo says that some previous comments he made in the Diet regarding parties held by his political support group were not factually correct and offered an apology.
2. Tokyo prosecutors have searched the offices of former agriculture minister Yoshikawa Takamori over suspicions that he took bribes from a former corporate executive while in office.
3. France says President Emmanuel Macron is no longer showing COVID-19 symptoms and is ending his isolation.

1. The Tokyo Metropolitan Government says 888 new cases of coronavirus infection, a new daily high, were confirmed in the Japanese capital on Thursday. The previous record was 821, marked a week ago.     2. Sources say former agriculture minister Yoshikawa Takamori has admitted receiving cash from a former corporate executive while in office. He occupied the post from October 2018 to September of last year.                                                                                                                                                                        3.Britain has detected another new variant of the coronavirus in contacts of people who have travelled from South Africa.