TOKYO—For three weeks in a Tokyo jail, then-lawmaker Tomohiro Ishikawa heard one message every day: Confess. His interrogators were accusing him of taking more than $400,000 in illicit funds from a construction company in a previous job as a political secretary. As Mr. Ishikawa recalls it, one prosecutor pounded on the table and shouted in anger, and another broke down in tears at the thought of possibly betrayed constituents.

Source: Wall Street Journal January 13, 2019 12:03 UTC