Reconstruction Minister Hosono has corrected his campaign funding report after reports that he set up more election offices than the law allows during the House of Representatives election the year before last, saying the offices appeared in his accounts through a clerical mistake.
The correction concerns the number of offices recorded for the campaign. Hosono's explanation is that the entries were the result of administrative error rather than the operation of offices beyond the legal limit.
Campaign finance reports in Japan list spending and offices tied to a candidate's election campaign, and candidates are required to file corrections when the figures are found to be wrong. A correction does not by itself settle whether the original filing broke the law.
Hosono has not said how many offices were wrongly listed or what the corrected figures show. The source material does not give those details.