黒川検事長が辞表提出　賭けマージャン認め、訓告処分

　黒川弘務東京高検検事長は２１日、緊急事態宣言発令下の１日と１３日に新聞記者らと賭けマージャンを行ったことを認め、辞表を提出した。２２日の閣議で承認される。森雅子法相は黒川氏を訓告処分にするとともに、安倍晋三首相に報告。首相は「了解した」と応じた。
　黒川氏は１月末、検事長として勤務延長が閣議決定された。これに関し、森氏は「閣議請議をしたのは私だ。責任を痛感している」と語った。
　黒川氏をめぐっては、２１日発売の週刊文春が、東京都内の産経新聞記者の家で賭けマージャンをしていたと報道。与野党から辞任を求める声が相次いでいた。（2020/05/21-18:15）

Hiromu Kurokawa, the embattled chief of the Tokyo High Public Prosecutors Office, has admitted playing mahjong for money earlier this month during Japan's coronavirus state of emergency, an executive of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party said Thursday.
   The Justice Ministry is set to report the outcome of its investigation into the matter to a meeting of senior members of the Judicial Affairs Committee of the House of Representatives, the lower chamber of the Diet, the country's parliament.
   Shukan Bunshun, a Japanese weekly magazine, reported in its edition that went on sale on Thursday that Kurokawa, 63, gambled on mahjong with newspaper employees at the house of a reporter of the Sankei Shimbun major daily in Tokyo on May 1 and 13.
   Both ruling and opposition lawmakers are demanding Kurokawa's resignation.
   The Japanese government declared the state of emergency in April. It remains in place in some of the country's 47 prefectures, including Tokyo.