23/04/2003 -- Telegraph, UK
One of Japan's most senior politicians, a key ally of the Prime Minister, Junichiro Koizumi, was humiliated yesterday when a former bar hostess claimed that they had a 10-year affair during which she had two abortions. Kanako Yamada backed up claims about her relationship with Taku Yamasaki, the general secretary of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party...
---See the hostess pix here
