Japanese ruling party loses three seats after mass corruption scandal exposed

The Liberal Democratic Party’s Secretary General Toshimitsu Motegi (Kyodo News via AP)

Japan’s governing party has lost all three seats in the nation’s parliamentary by-elections, which were held on Sunday for the first time since Japan was rocked by the alleged mass-scale government corruption scandal.

In November, Japan was rocked by the revelation that a slew of Liberal Democratic Party politicians had been using campaign funds and transferring them into untracked slush accounts.