Toshio Akagi, a then employee of the Kinki Local Finance Bureau, is seen in this photo provided by

Masako Akagi, the wife of late Toshio Akagi, is seen checking a copy of a document file released by

Masako Akagi, left, holds a news conference after requesting the disclosure of information from the

approving the heavily discounted sale of state land to a nationalist school operator.... Akagi's wife

The Ministry of Finance building is seen in Tokyo's Kasumigaseki bureaucracy hub.... She intends to file a complaint with the ministry.... The Finance Ministry concluded in a report released in June 2018 that Nobuhisa Sagawa, then head of the ministry's Financial Bureau, determined the direction of the alteration of ministry documents on the property sale, and moved forward with systematic tampering at the Kinki finance bureau....

Kondo Swine Pork's newly installed vending machine and President Takayuki Kondo are seen in the city of Maebashi on Nov.... The company keeps some 3, 000 pigs and has been offering products including additive-free sausages made from its pork through mail order and at events since 2014.... Though it also began selling items at the storefront in 2016, it could open only on Tuesdays and Fridays because staff are busy feeding and shipping pigs every day....

Kazuo Tobe, pictured here in a field in the Gunma Prefecture city of Showa on Oct.... But this summer he had to abandon production in over 10 of the 50 greenhouses he set up, as he does not have enough workers to harvest them--a result of foreign trainees no longer being able to come to Japan and work at his farm.... For each trainee Tobe loses, his sales decline by about 5 million yen( roughly$ 44, 000) per year, he says....