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GAKUEN JI

Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Mar 13, 2018
From 'falsified' to 'rewritten,' headlines on Moritomo scandal shine light on political leanings
All major Japanese newspapers ran big headlines Tuesday about the Finance Ministry's alterations to documents related to a shady 2016 sale of state-owned land, threatening to sink public support for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's government. The way in which they described the latest developments, however, was anything but uniform.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Mar 12, 2018
Finance Ministry admits to doctoring official papers on Moritomo land scandal
The deletions, which wiped out references to the Abes, prominent lawmakers and the Japan Conference (Nippon Kaigi), took place before the documents were released to politicians probing the deal.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Mar 10, 2018
Finance Ministry to admit Moritomo documents were secretly altered
The Finance Ministry has decided to admit that documents related to the shady 2016 land deal struck with Osaka-based school operator Moritomo Gakuen were secretly revised and that key parts were dropped from the version released to lawmakers last year, informed sources said Saturday.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Mar 9, 2018
Tax chief exits as ministry suicide casts pall over Moritomo land scandal
The chief of the National Tax Agency resigns after a Finance Ministry suicide casts a pall over the Moritomo Gakuen land scandal.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Mar 8, 2018
Finance Ministry releases Moritomo documents but refuses to say if it has other versions
The Asahi Shimbun has reported that two documents were altered by ministry officials, and that released versions leave out key information on state-owned land being sold at an 86-percent discount.
JAPAN / Politics
Mar 2, 2018
Finance Ministry unit says it will probe Moritomo document-tampering allegation
After initially responding with silence, a Finance Ministry official agrees to look into the newspaper's allegations of government meddling in a scandal that refuses to go away.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Feb 17, 2018
Tax-filing season starts with a bang as Moritomo protests hit agency branches nationwide
Protesters kick off tax-filing season with demonstrations in major cities aimed at getting the chief of the National Tax Agency to resign over the Moritomo Gakuen land scandal.
Japan Times
JAPAN / View from Osaka
Jan 20, 2018
Journalism tied to those in power must be checked
"If everyone is thinking alike, then no one is thinking."
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Jan 13, 2018
Press failing to question the legal process
To ring in the new year, TBS Radio’s “Session 22” asked several notable people on Jan. 4 about their predictions for 2018. Michiko Kameishi, a human rights lawyer, commented that she is looking forward to three criminal trials that turn on confessions extracted from suspects. Two of the cases are retrials of persons who have already been convicted and served their times in prison. In both, lawyers convinced courts to retry their clients because the convictions were based solely on confessions they later recanted and which they say were coerced under questionable circumstances.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Dec 30, 2017
Japanese media's hits and misses of 2017
The term "fake news" was used in so many different situations this year that it no longer describes an agreed upon concept but rather anything you don't agree with. This is why the U.S. press has had a difficult time making sense of its president's conflation of cynical policy aims with his own deranged self-esteem.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / LEARNING CURVE
Dec 27, 2017
Teachers and schools in Japan brace for icebergs in 2018
After a year of scandals and promises, the 'five-year rule' and demographic woes cast a shadow over education in 2018.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Dec 26, 2017
The top domestic news stories of 2017
The Japan Times newsroom selected the following domestic news stories as the most important of 2017.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Dec 8, 2017
Abe unscathed by scandals as special Diet session wraps up
The extraordinary Diet session wraps up after the opposition fails to shed light on Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's alleged favoritism scandals.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Dec 3, 2017
Over 60% back princesses remaining Imperial after marriage in survey covering Cabinet, North Korea strategy, Moritomo
Over 60 percent of people polled support the idea of allowing princesses to retain their place in the Imperial family after marriage.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Nov 26, 2017
Opposition revives calls for Akie Abe to testify in Diet over Moritomo land scandal
Opposition party policy chiefs demand that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's wife, Akie, testify in the Diet over a controversial discounted sale of state land to a school operator once linked to her.
EDITORIALS
Nov 26, 2017
Time for officials to come clean on Moritomo deal
Now that the Board of Audit has concluded the Moritomo Gakuen property deal was based on faulty information, the Abe administration must explain why the deal went down the way it did.
JAPAN / Politics
Nov 24, 2017
Sale of state assets to face tighter scrutiny after Moritomo scandal
Politicians vow to impose stricter guidelines on the sale of state assets following the Board of Audit's findings on the murky deal at the heart of the Moritomo Gakuen scandal.
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 / Politics
Nov 14, 2017
Vet school at center of Abe favoritism scandal gets final OK to open
The new veterinary school at the center of favoritism allegations leveled at Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has obtained formal approval to open in Ehime Prefecture, education minister Yoshimasa Hayashi said Tuesday.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Nov 14, 2017
New guidelines fail to close all loopholes for covering up official documents
The administration of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has taken action to close legal loopholes that have led to major government scandals over alleged document cover-ups.
'So hot you can't breathe': Extreme heat hits the Philippines
A pedestrian cools himself with a folding hand fan as he waits for a ride along a road in Manila on Wednesday, as extreme heat hit the Philippines.
Yen rebounds strongly after first slide past ¥160 since 1990
The yen dropped to ¥160.245 per dollar on Monday before heading into the other direction to ¥155.01 amid speculation of an intervention by Japanese currency authorities.
JAL cancels international flight after captain gets drunk at Dallas hotel
A Japan Airlines' flight from Dallas to Tokyo was canceled last week after its captain got drunk at a local hotel.
Golden Week crowds greeted with high temperatures as holiday period kicks off
The departure lobby for domestic flights is crowded with travelers at Haneda Airport in Tokyo on Saturday, the first day of this year's Golden Week holidays.
India seen overtaking Japan in nominal GDP in 2025
The skyline of central Mumbai's financial district
Climate change, chalky grains and the risks for Japan’s rice farmers
A farmer plants seedlings in Satsumasendai, Kagoshima Prefecture. Japan’s self sufficiency rate for rice is nearly 100%, compared with 38% for food overall, on a calorie basis.
Japan wants you to spend more with ‘luxury tourism’
Performers play a traditional drum unique to Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture, in the prefectural capital of Kanazawa on March 16 to mark the extension of the Hokuriku Shinkansen line to Tsuruga Station in Fukui Prefecture.
Theaster Gates’ ambitious ‘Afro-Mingei’ brings Black Chicago to Tokyo
Theaster Gates' “A Heavenly Chord” lines up church pews before seven speakers and a Hammond B3 organ, a type of electric organ prevalent in Black American churches.
Casa del Cibo: A thriving jewel born from Tohoku’s harsh past
When chef Ryohei Ikemi moved to Hachinohe, Aomori Prefecture, and opened Casa del Cibo in 2011, it was the first proper Italian restaurant in the city.
Town to block view of Mount Fuji in response to overtourism
The town government of Fujikawaguchiko, Yamanashi Prefecture, decided to set up a 2.5-meter-high screen to prevent tourists from taking pictures of Mount Fuji looming behind a convenience store.

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