Finance Ministry discloses last set of Moritomo papers

Finance Ministry releases final batch of Moritomo documents, concluding a year-long disclosure of 140,000 pages tied to a major political scandal. | Contesto: cronaca

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The Finance Ministry has disclosed the final set of documents related to the Moritomo Gakuen scandal, concluding a year-long process that has seen the release of approximately 140,000 pages of material deemed closely connected to a document-tampering controversy that has rocked Japan's political establishment. The release, which began last April, marks a significant milestone in a saga that has fueled public distrust and led to high-level resignations, though it leaves critical questions about accountability and the completeness of the record unanswered. The scandal centers on the heavily discounted 2016 sale of state-owned land in Osaka to Moritomo Gakuen, a nationalist school operator with ties to former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's wife, Akie Abe. The controversy erupted when evidence emerged that Finance Ministry officials had systematically altered official documents related to the sale. The tampering, which occurred in 2017, allegedly removed references to Mrs. Abe and other prominent political figures, obscuring their potential influence in securing the favorable deal for the school. The disclosure process was initiated under intense public and parliamentary pressure following the initial revelations of forgery. The sheer volume of the disclosed material—140,000 pages—underscores the scale of the bureaucratic effort involved in both the original land deal and the subsequent cover-up. For over a year, journalists, opposition lawmakers, and civic groups have sifted through the documents, piecing together a timeline of the tampering and identifying the officials involved. The scandal has already had severe consequences, leading to the suicide of a regional finance bureau official and the resignation of the then-head of the National Tax Agency, Nobuhisa Sagawa, who oversaw the division that carried out the alterations. Despite the massive disclosure, critics argue the process has been one of managed transparency. The ministry itself has been the arbiter of which documents are "closely related" to the scandal, raising concerns about potential omissions. Opposition parties have consistently demanded an independent investigation, alleging that the full chain of...

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