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Wasted Japanese taxpayer money in fiscal 2018 was the second-lowest in a decade

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. A total of ¥100.23 billion ($917 million) in 335 cases was either wastefully spent by government agencies and ...

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. According to the ...

Monju reactor project failed to pay off after swallowing ¥1.13 trillion of taxpayers' money: auditors

National 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.

Audit finds no grounds for massive discount in Osaka land sale involving Abe-linked school operator

National / Politics Nov 22, 2017

Audit finds no grounds for massive discount in Osaka land sale involving Abe-linked school operator

by Reiji Yoshida

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's Board of Audit: unlikely guardians of the Constitution?

Issues | LAW OF THE LAND Dec 4, 2016

Japan's Board of Audit: unlikely guardians of the Constitution?

by Colin P.A. Jones

As well as uncovering government waste, the bean counters have pushed back — politely — over state secret exemptions.

National 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. The Cabinet Secretariat sent a letter of notification on Dec. 25 to ...

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