The former mayor of a central Japan city who stepped down after being convicted of bribery was re-elected Sunday, although he could be forced to leave office again depending on a Supreme Court decision on his conviction appeal. Hiroto Fujii, 32, resigned last month as mayor of Minokamo, Gifu Prefecture, after the Nagoya High Court in November overturned a lower court acquittal and found that he had received 300,000 yen ($2,600) in bribes in 2013 while he was a local assembly member.
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