Moritomo Gakuen is a Japanese private school operator located in Osaka, Japan, which found itself at the center of a scandal in 2017 involving a steep discount given by the Japanese Finance Ministry’s Kinki Bureau on the sale of the plot of the formerly government-owned plot of land which the elementary school would be built on.
Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s wife, Akie Abe, was found to be named honorary principal of the elementary school before it was built, sparking allegations that the steep discount worth more than 800 million yen was offered due to the school operator’s relationship with the then First Lady.
The issue resurfaced in June this year when the Osaka District Court finally disclosed the documents compiled by deceased Finance Ministry bureaucrat Toshio Akagi detailing instructions he received to falsify public records relating to the sale of the plot of land. The document, dubbed the “Akagi file”, includes documents on instructions given in the period between February to April 2017 to alter records regarding the sale of the plot of land, as well as email exchanges between the Financial Bureau’s ministerial headquarters in Tokyo and the local finance bureau in the Kinki region. Toshio Akagi committed suicide in 2018 after allegedly suffering from depression due to having to follow orders to falsify the documents.
Our resident news anchor discusses the development of the scandal from 2016 to the present.
- Summary
- What is the Moritomo Gakuen scandal about? 森友学園問題とは
- What is the Kakei Gakuen scandal about? 加計学園問題
- The truth behind these scandals 事件の真相は
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