The Tokyo District Court on Wednesday found a former senior education ministry official and three others guilty in an alleged bribery case.
The court sentenced Futoshi Sano, 62, former director-general of the ministry’s Science and Technology Policy Bureau, to two years and six months in prison, suspended for five years, for allegedly receiving bribes related to a ministry support program for private universities.
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