-price sale of state land to nationalist school operator Moritomo Gakuen.... Akagi's widow filed a

The National Diet Building( Mainichi/ Masahiro Kawata) SHIMONOSEKI, Yamaguchi--As Japan braces for the Oct.... This truth is a very weighty one.... After a thorough investigation is conducted, the truth should be presented to the public....

Seiko Noda, executive acting secretary general of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, speaks at an event to deliver policy speeches in Tokyo on Sept.... 29 LDP presidential election to choose the successor to Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga.... " In order to prevent it from happening again, there is a need for( further) investigation," Noda said....

Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is seen responding to reporters' questions at the prime minister's office on Oct.... And I've taken it to heart." Regarding Masako Akagi's call in the letter for a renewed investigation into the document tampering, Kishida only went as far as saying:" At present a civil suit is underway.... I have instructed the Ministry of Finance to respond in a civil manner under the court's direction over litigation proceedings." Kishida made the remarks in response to question

The ruling Liberal Democratic Party's( LDP) presidential election campaign to pick Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga's successor is officially underway.... At stake is what policy course the new leader will take in reviewing the party and breaking away from the roughly nine years of politics brought in by the previous Shinzo Abe administration.... It is the first LDP leadership election with multiple female candidates....

Yano, 58, will succeed Mitsuru Ota, 61, as vice finance minister, the top bureaucratic post at the most powerful ministry in Japan, effective Thursday.... His appointment will take effect on July 16 after a two-day in-person gathering of finance chiefs of the Group of 20 major economies to be held in Italy from Friday.... Yano joined the ministry in 1985 after graduating from Hitotsubashi University, unlike most of his predecessors who have been from the University of Tokyo, the nation's most

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....

The ruling Liberal Democratic Party( LDP) maintained a single-party majority in the Oct.... In regards to the election results, the prime minister stressed that he" won the confidence" of the people.... The poll, however, also revealed the public's distrust of LDP politics that has continued for nine years following the party's victory in a general election in 2012, with its secretary general Akira Amari and several former ministers losing in the single-seat constituency....

Three politicians have officially put their names forward for the Liberal Democratic Party( LDP) presidential election campaign set to officially start Sept.... The presidential contest is the second in a year to decide who will be LDP leader, and prime minister for the remainder of the current House of Representatives' term in office.... Former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his successor, current Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, both stumbled in their response to the coronavirus pandemic....

A series of scandals--including some involving shady ties between politicians and money--plagued the administrations of prime ministers Shinzo Abe and Yoshihide Suga.... That distrust showed up symbolically in the loss that the ruling Liberal Democratic Party( LDP)'s then secretary-general Akira Amari suffered in his single-seat constituency during the Oct.... Amari had not given the public a convincing explanation about an influence-peddling scandal involving the government-backed Urban Renai