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