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Contractor with powerful friend won 19 billion yen’s worth of Defense Ministry pork

A defense contractor that had collusive relations with a former top bureaucrat in the Defense Ministry received 19 billion yen worth of contracts from the ministry over a five-year period, ministry officials said.

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