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Fornicating politicos caught in the act

Kudos to Nihon TV, who sent an undercover crew to follow a local government politicians' "fact-finding" mission to Asia and came back with a record of them visiting massage parlours and dubious clubs, eating out at top restaurants, sightseeing at Angkor Wat, and doing about four hours of work the entire time (in the form of a single factory visit and a couple of stop-offs at a local JETRO office and a Japanese embassy). The whole thing culminates in one of the politicians taking a girl from what appears to be a sex club back to his hotel, unaware that a reporter with a concealed camera is riding in the lift with them.

Much is said about the ineffectuality of the Japanese press, so it's nice to see them break a scandal for a change. Given the fact that the politicians are from cash-strapped Saitama and these trips are costing perhaps 6-8 million yen a pop (at Nihon TV's estimate), the program has raised a considerable stink.