Japan Broadcasting Corporation

Japan’s Finance Ministry says it believes some of the documents related to a controversial sale of state-owned land were discarded before they could be disclosed. Akagi Toshio, who worked for a regional bureau of the ministry in western Japan, was forced to falsify documents on the heavily discounted sale of state-owned land to school operator

Japan’s Finance Ministry has disclosed documents related to a scandal over the sale of state-owned land to school operator Moritomo Gakuen. The widow of an employee of the ministry’s regional bureau received them on Friday. Akagi Masako visited the ministry with her lawyers to receive the papers. Her late husband, Akagi Toshio, killed himself after