Amari: Later in the day, Abe named former environment minister Nobuteru Ishihara as Amari successor, according to The Japan Times. The quick replacement was formalized in the evening through an attestation ceremony at the Imperial Palace. The resignation of Amari — a key engineer of Abenomics and mastermind of Japan successful bid last year to reach a landmark 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade agreement — will considerably delay the expected ratification of the deal by the Diet. Amari was the only Cabinet member with full background knowledge of the secretive multinational negotiations that went into the trade pact. Amari again denied having acted illegally. During a news conference at the Cabinet Office, Amari acknowledged that he had accepted ¥1 million in cash from a worker at a Chiba-based construction firm, but maintained that the funds were properly reported in his political funds control report.
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