Former Abe faction to vote on hosting the games within the month, with Shimomura in sight (Kyodo News)

Hiroshi Kasa, the head of the National Diet Affairs Committee of the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, said at a party meeting on the 7th that he is making arrangements to ask the House of Representatives Budget Committee to pass a resolution to summon former Abe faction executives as witnesses in the LDP faction secret funds scandal. According to a source, he wants to pass the resolution in time for the intensive Budget Committee delibe…