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MORITOMO GAKUEN

JAPAN
Jan 1, 2019
Top Japan news of 2018
The Japan Times newsroom selected the following domestic news stories as the most important of 2018.
JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Dec 29, 2018
Year of the Dog fails to answer the tough questions
Sodanē.
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
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 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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.
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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.
In a first, Japan issues cease-and-desist order against Google
The Google logo is seen at the company's Bay View campus in Mountain View, California. Japanese authorities on Tuesday issued a cease-and-desist order to Google over an alleged violation of the country's anti-monopoly law.
Japan and the U.S. begin tariff talks on good terms, but without breakthroughs
Ryosei Akazawa, Japan's chief tariff negotiator, speaks to reporters in Washington on Wednesday.
Trump calls the U.S.-Japan alliance ‘one-sided.’ Tokyo says otherwise.
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a Cabinet meeting at the White House on Thursday in Washington.
Japan is by far the favorite country among Taiwanese: survey
A night market in Taipei in April
Japan to give India E5 and E3 shinkansen for free
A rendering of East Japan Railway's E10 series of bullet trains
Privacy and transparency clash in debate over bill on artificial insemination
Sachiko Ishizuka, who was born via artificial insemination by donor (AID), tells her story to lawmakers from the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan on April 9.
Why Ishiba became the first prime minister to hold talks with Rengo in 16 years
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba and Japanese Trade Union Confederation chief Tomoko Yoshino in a meeting Tuesday at the Prime Minister's Office
In a first, Japan issues cease-and-desist order against Google
The Google logo is seen at the company's Bay View campus in Mountain View, California. Japanese authorities on Tuesday issued a cease-and-desist order to Google over an alleged violation of the country's anti-monopoly law.
Sumo's throwback regional tours offer glimpse into sport's heart and history
Kirishima (behind) battles Atamifuji during a regional tour event in Hyogo Prefecture in 2023.
China’s new bridge-forming barges offer new options for Taiwan invasion
This satellite image taken on March 25 shows three Chinese barges connected via extendable bridges in waters off Zhanjiang, in southern China's Guangdong province. Experts say the new barges could be used to land heavy equipment and thousands of personnel in a possible invasion of Taiwan.

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