Remember the fights she had with a neighbor about landscaping in the years before her stock scandal?

Political commentators here also say they believe that the governing party wanted to jolt the opposition and try to contain the stock scandal.

Initially, Finance Ministry officials tried to pass off the stock scandal as an aberration.

He is also trying to contain a stock scandal that has recently touched his Finance Minister.

The stock scandal has led to calls to toughen provisions for a new tax on stock sales.

A number of board members did not want their role in the stock scandal made public.

An important political link to Japan's stock scandal was disclosed in reports on a powerful politician's family.

The yen has been under pressure recently because of Japan's relatively low interest rates and as rumors of another stock scandal begin to appear.

The admission was the first formal acknowledgement that the Government's regulation of the securities industry had contributed to the stock scandal.

Clearly, the stock scandal has hit Ms. Stewart harder than anyone imagined.