A news conference was held in Osaka on May 25. “This is very painful,” said Masako Akagi, balling her right hand into a fist.

Akagi is the widow of Toshio Akagi, a former employee of the Finance Ministry’s Kinki Local Finance Bureau, who committed suicide in 2018 after being coerced into falsifying official documents concerning what eventually came to be known as the Moritomo Gakuen scandal.

She continued, “(The ministry) never tells me anything about what I want to know most, but explains to me in great detail matters that are of zero interest to........

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