In one, former Vice Defense Minister Takemasa Moriya allegedly provided favors to a Japanese trading company involved in defense contracts, after taking more than 100 one-day golf trips at the invitation of the company. The other affair involves seven members of the Sagamihara city assembly in Kanagawa Prefecture and the director of the city’s urban construction bureau, who played golf in November at the U. Many Japanese businessmen who took up golf on overseas assignments give it up after returning to Japan due to the higher fees. Japanese golf course operators are demanding abolition of the golf tax, which they say constitutes double taxation. The United States, whose land area is 25 times greater than Japan’s, is full of golf courses where green fees are much lower than in Japan. The Japanese government, while imposing a special tax on local golf players, offers golf courses to the U. read more
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