安倍首相、森法相の続投指示　進退伺に対し―黒川検事長問題

　森雅子法相は２２日の記者会見で、東京高検の黒川弘務検事長が新聞記者らと賭けマージャンをしていたとして辞表を提出した問題で、安倍晋三首相に進退伺を提出したと明らかにした。首相の慰留を受け、続投することも表明した。

　進退伺を出したのは２１日夜。森氏によると、首相は「検察の損なわれた信頼を回復するために引き続き職務に当たってもらいたい」と指示。森氏は「非常につらい道ではあるが、法務行政を停滞させることなく進め、検察の立て直しをしなければならないという思いに至った」と述べた。（2020/05/22-10:57）

Japanese Justice Minister Masako Mori said Friday that she has asked Prime Minister Shinzo Abe whether she should resign over a gambling scandal involving a senor prosecutor but decided to stay in the post as Abe instructed her to do so.
   Mori told a press conference that she asked Abe about her fate on Thursday night, after Hiromu Kurokawa tendered his resignation as superintending prosecutor of the Tokyo High Public Prosecutors Office earlier in the day to take responsibility for playing mahjong for money with newspaper publisher employees earlier this month, during Japan's coronavirus state of emergency.
   Abe instructed Mori to stay in the post and continue working to restore the public trust in prosecutors, according to the justice minister.
   "I came to a conclusion that I should make efforts to rebuild the prosecutor system while implementing judicial administration with no delay," she said.
   The Abe cabinet approved on Friday the resignation of Kurokawa as the chief of the high prosecutors office.