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MORITOMO GAKUEN

Japan Times
JAPAN
Nov 22, 2018
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 price.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Jul 20, 2018
As Diet wraps up, Abe re-emerges as front-runner for LDP election
As recently as spring, the Abe administration was in disarray, weakened by what appeared to be an unstoppable flow of scandals and missteps.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jun 6, 2018
Inquest sought over decision not to indict Finance Ministry officials over document tampering
A group of citizens filed a petition with a prosecution inquest panel in Osaka on Tuesday to review the decision not to indict former and current Finance Ministry officials involved in the manipulation of official documents related to a controversial sale of state-owned land.
JAPAN / Politics
Jun 3, 2018
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.
JAPAN / Politics
May 28, 2018
Finance Ministry's Moritomo document ploy not linked to vow to resign, Abe says
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe denies the Finance Ministry's document-tampering and disposal bids were triggered by his pledge last year to resign if evidence proved he or his wife were involved in the Moritomo Gakuen land scandal.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
May 27, 2018
Time for Abe to take the offensive on scandals
Where to draw a line of defense is an important decision for any administration. Abe seems to have done a poor job of it.
Japan Times
JAPAN
May 25, 2018
Moritomo chief Yasunori Kagoike freed on bail, dares Abe to ‘tell the truth’ about Osaka land deal
Former Moritomo Gakuen President Yasunori Kagoike and his wife have spent about 10 months behind bars since they were arrested on suspicion of subsidy fraud.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
May 23, 2018
Finance Ministry comes clean on Moritomo land deal cover-up, releases 'discarded' documents
The Finance Ministry admits to the disposing of documents to cover up its Moritomo Gakuen negotiations, releasing records detailing exchanges on the steep land price discount given to the school operator.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
May 20, 2018
Japan's Finance Ministry mulls punishments for Sagawa, other civil servants in Moritomo document-tampering scandal
The Finance Ministry is preparing to punish several former and current civil servants over the document falsification in the Moritomo Gakuen scandal.
Japan Times
JAPAN
May 18, 2018
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.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Apr 24, 2018
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.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Apr 21, 2018
Could jealousy link the Financial Ministry scandals together?
Although not directly related, the allegation that former Administrative Vice Minister Junichi Fukuda was a sexual harasser was initially reported as a sideshow to the ongoing Moritomo Gakuen influence scandal that is dogging both Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and the Finance Ministry. Fukuda was the top...
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Apr 15, 2018
Tens of thousands of protesters demonstrate outside Diet, demand 'liar' Abe's resignation over scandals
Tens of thousands of people joined a demonstration outside the Diet on Saturday, in a sign of growing public anger over cronyism scandals engulfing Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Apr 13, 2018
Preventing another Moritomo scandal
The Moritomo Gakuen scandal — concerning the sale of an 8,770-square-meter government-owned property in Osaka Prefecture for ¥134 million, or a mere 14 percent of its appraisal value, for the construction of a new elementary school for which the first lady, Akie Abe, was an honorary principal...
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Apr 9, 2018
Financial Bureau head admits official asked Moritomo Gakuen to lie about waste removal
A Finance Ministry official asked Osaka-based school operator Moritomo Gakuen last year to lie about how waste was removed from property it had purchased from the ministry in a controversial deal.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Apr 2, 2018
Assemblies from Niigata to Tottori criticize handling of Moritomo probe as threat to democracy
Municipal and prefectural politicians are calling the document-tampering scandal a threat to Japan's democracy and ratcheting up calls for key figures to testify in the Diet.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Mar 28, 2018
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.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics / ANALYSIS
Mar 28, 2018
Abe's best chance for survival as LDP chief lies in his diplomatic skills
The passage of a record-high 2018 spending budget brings to closure a first half year in the Diet that saw the prime minister's approval rating nosedive.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Mar 27, 2018
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.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Mar 26, 2018
Wife of Japan's prime minister finds herself in scandal spotlight
First lady Akie Abe, once known mainly for embracing progressive causes that put her at odds with her conservative spouse, is now in the hot seat as doubts revive about the murky land sale to nationalist school operator Moritomo Gakuen to which she had ties.
Japan's population continues to fall even as foreign resident count rises
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Ahead of the Olympics, Japan is still talking about the gymnast who won't be there
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Yen melt-up nudges Japanese stocks into correction territory
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‘Crazy’ yen rally is at risk of shattering as soon as Wednesday
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Japan's average life expectancy rises for first time in three years
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