The Road to the Deep East is reporting some interesting background on the story the other day about a Japan Foreign Ministry official who is being accused of staying at a Tokyo hotel for 300 days and skipping out on his 15-million-yen tab.

As strange as this story was, people here generally were quick to shrug the whole affair off as just another instance of some corrupt bureaucrat’s sense of self-importance running amok.

According to The Road to the Deep East, however, things are not as simple as they appear.

Former wife to Indonesian leader Sukarno and current Japanese media celebrity Dewi Sukarno is apparently reporting on her Japanese blog that the Foreign Ministry official in question (who is married) had been having an affair with the female president of the hotel in question for the past six or seven years. Apparently the hotel president is very much in love with the official, but he refused to leave his wife and ended up splitting with the hotelier instead.

According to Dewi, the hotel president is using the claim for 115 million yen to punish the official by publicly embarrassing him.

Check out The Road to the Deep East for even more dirt on this story.