Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda is facing a unpleasant scandal

"LandepNews"
After only a few days in office, Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda is facing a unpleasant scandal. Somebody has discovered that Noda’s political funds management organization received at least 158,000 yen in illegal donations from a South Korean citizen:

The man acknowledged during an interview with The Yomiuri Shimbun he was a South Korean resident in Japan and made donations to Noda.
He said he has been serving as an executive of a chapter of the Korean Residents Union in Japan since before he made the donations.
“Mr. Noda should’ve known I was a foreign national,” he said. “But maybe he didn’t notice I made the donations.” The man made the donations under a Japanese name.

The donations took place between 2001 and 2003. There is only a 3 year statute of limitations on the law banning political donations from foreign nationals, so no legal action can be taken against Noda.
It is very similar to the scandal that forced Foreign Minister Seiji Maehara to resign back in March. Maehara had been considered a front-runner to become PM, but his problems with foreign donors probably contributed to his election failure.
Update: More recent news reports now state that there were donations of about 300,000 yen from at least two South Korean citizens.
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