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AUDIT

Japan Times
BUSINESS
Nov 8, 2019
Wasted Japanese taxpayer money in fiscal 2018 was the second-lowest in a decade
Japan's Board of Audit said Friday that wasteful spending of tax money was at its second-lowest level in a decade in fiscal 2018, through March this year.
BUSINESS / Economy
Nov 9, 2018
Wasteful tax spending in Japan second-lowest in 10 years: audit board
The Board of Audit said Friday that wasteful spending of tax money in fiscal 2017 was at the second-lowest level in a decade, while reporting that the state has been shouldering far more costs for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics than earlier projected.
Japan Times
JAPAN
May 11, 2018
Monju reactor project failed to pay off after swallowing ¥1.13 trillion of taxpayers' money: auditors
Japan's auditors say the fast-breeder reactor only ran for 250 days over its troubled two-decade run and never cracked the secret to the plutonium fuel cycle.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Nov 22, 2017
Audit finds no grounds for massive discount in Osaka land sale involving Abe-linked school operator
The government sold land in Osaka to school operator Moritomo Gakuen for a highly discounted price based on faulty data estimating the cost of removing industrial waste from the site.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues
Dec 4, 2016
Japan's Board of Audit: unlikely guardians of the Constitution?
On Nov. 7, an annual ritual of government occurred: The Board of Audit delivered its report on the results of its audit of government accounts for the previous fiscal year (April 1, 2015, to March 31, 2016) to the Cabinet. The 1,123-page paper brick handed over to His Abe-ness identified billions of yen's worth of improper expenditures or accounting and trillions of yen's worth of things that could be done more efficiently. On Nov. 18 the Cabinet submitted the report to the Diet, and perhaps sometime next summer the legislature will debate what it all means.
JAPAN
Jan 13, 2016
Government auditors want access to protected info under Japan's contentious secrecy law
The Cabinet Secretariat has urged government agencies to make information designated as secret under the controversial state secrecy law accessible to Japan's Board of Audit if so requested, a government source said Tuesday.
JAPAN
Oct 9, 2014
Prefectures subsidized to ship lumber to Tohoku disaster areas fell short: audit
Lumber sent from prefectures that received government subsidies to supply wood to areas hit by the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami in 2011 only amounted to 0.04 percent of their total shipments in fiscal 2012 and 2013, according to a recent survey.

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