Suicide note reignites Moritomo scandal that rocked Abe administration
The wife of a former Finance Ministry official who killed himself filed a lawsuit against the ministry and the former chief of its financial bureau, seeking damages of ¥110 million.
The Osaka District Public Prosecutor's Office decided again on Friday not to indict former senior Finance Ministry bureaucrat Nobuhisa Sagawa and nine others over the Moritomo Gakuen cronyism scandal that hit the administration of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. The secondary decision, which cited insufficient evidence, ...
Japan auditors release Moritomo Gakuen report but fail to answer why land was sold so cheap
The national accounting watchdog released a report Thursday on the murky sale of state land in 2016 involving a school operator close to the wife of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, but fell short of identifying why the land was sold at a heavily discounted ...
Finance Ministry officials say Nobuhisa Sagawa ordered falsification of Moritomo papers: sources
Finance Ministry officials have testified that former senior official Nobuhisa Sagawa told them to falsify documents on its controversial sale of state land to school operator Moritomo Gakuen, it has been learned. Sagawa, 60, apparently found problems in Moritomo-related documents with seals affixed to them ...
Former tax chief Nobuhisa Sagawa faces cut in retirement pay over Moritomo document-tampering
Having eluded indictment, Nobuhisa Sagawa will probably receive a cut in retirement pay for falsifying the Moritomo Gakuen documents with his Finance Ministry subordinates.
A university professor filed a criminal complaint with prosecutors Wednesday against a former high-ranking bureaucrat and other officials, accusing them of improperly disposing of public documents pertaining to a shady state land sale linked to the wife of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. The complaint by ...
Nobuhisa Sagawa, key figure in Moritomo scandal, won't face indictment: sources
Prosecutors have decided not to indict Sagawa and other government officials suspected of falsifying documents related to a discounted sale of state land.
Prosecutors question key ex-Finance Ministry bureaucrat Nobuhisa Sagawa over document tampering
Public prosecutors have questioned former Finance Ministry bureaucrat Nobuhisa Sagawa on a voluntary basis over the ministry's falsification of documents related to the controversial discount sale of state land to school operator Moritomo Gakuen, informed sources said Monday. The special investigation squad of the Osaka ...
Scandal-hit Cabinet's support rate rebounds to 42.4% in latest poll
The public support rate for the Cabinet of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe climbed 3.7 points to 42.4 percent in a weekend opinion poll despite a document-tampering scandal at the Finance Ministry that has rocked his government in recent weeks. In the meantime, 47.5 percent of ...
A day after Sagawa's testimony, where do things stand on Japan's Moritomo scandal?
Following the high-profile Diet testimony by a key former Finance Ministry official, ruling lawmakers are trying to bring an end to the Moritomo Gakuen scandal, which allegedly involved Akie Abe, the wife of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. But Nobuhisa Sagawa's testimony revealed little, answering few ...
Abe 'wasn't involved' in doctoring documents, key Moritomo witness Nobuhisa Sagawa tells Diet
In sworn testimony, the former Finance Ministry official categorically denies any involvement of Abe, his wife or his top allies in a document falsification scandal.
