Japan's Finance Ministry has submitted records on a controversial state land sale it had previously said were discarded.
A former governor of Ehime Prefecture in western Japan has backed Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's denial that he was involved in a veterinary school project at the center of an alleged favoritism scandal.
US President Donald Trump met South Korean President Moon Jae-in at the White House on Tuesday, and spoke about the planned summit meeting between Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un scheduled next month.
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Key words : finance ministry submitted
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Japan's Finance Ministry has submitted records on a controversial state land sale it had previously said were discarded.
Officials provided more than 900 pages to the Lower House budget committee on Wednesday. They reveal detailed negotiations for selling the land in Osaka at a steep discount to school operator Moritomo Gakuen.
The ministry says the records were filed between 2013 and 2016 and were found in memos about the negotiations on staff computers.
They include exchanges of the Finance Ministry with Moritomo Gakuen and the aide at the time to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's wife, Akie.
She was once designated honorary principal of the school to be built on the land, leading to allegations of favoritism by the government.
The tabling of the documents stands in stark contrast to statements made by the former head of the ministry's Financial Bureau last year that the records had been discarded.
The ministry admitted that some officials ordered that the documents be discarded when the issue first surfaced in February last year.
The ministry also submitted the untampered version of the settlement papers for the deal, consisting of more than 3,000 pages.
The ruling and opposition members of the committee have agreed to discuss the issue on Monday with the prime minister in attendance.
Key words : former governor Ehime
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A former governor of Ehime Prefecture in western Japan has backed Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's denial that he was involved in a veterinary school project at the center of an alleged favoritism scandal.
Moriyuki Kato cast doubt on the credibility of newly found internal documents about the school submitted to the Diet on Monday by Ehime Governor Tokihiro Nakamura. The school opened in April in Imabari City.
The school is operated by Kake Educational Institution, which is headed by Kotaro Kake, a close friend of Abe's.
The documents say Kake met Abe and explained his plans for the school before the city applied to open it under a special deregulation program.
This appears to contradict Abe's remarks in the Diet that he had no prior knowledge of the project.
Speaking at LDP headquarters in Tokyo on Wednesday, former governor Kato called the documents hearsay and suggested their existence does not mean the information is correct.
He said people at Kake may have inflated their story, and that only they know the truth.
Kato noted that Abe seemed aloof about the project, and that screening was extremely tough, without a hint of special consideration for him.
Kato said Abe was not at all involved in the process of approving the school project.
Key words : defense minister made
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Japan's Defense Minister has made the remark that the failure by officials to report in their discovery of activity logs during the Self-Defense Forces' mission in Iraq was due to a lack of awareness rather than a systemic cover-up.
The ministry released a report on Wednesday on why the existence of logs of the Ground Self-Defense Force mission that helped rebuild the war-torn country were not reported to then Defense Minister Tomomi Inada last year.
As for why the GSDF's research department told its staff office 3 days later that they did not exist, the report says the officials in charge had responded without adequately checking.
The probe also looked into why the Joint Staff Office took nearly one month to report to the Defense Minister after finding out in March this year that the logs existed.
The report says the Joint Staff Office should have reported on this immediately and that the decision not to do so was also far from appropriate.
The Defense ministry says it has disciplined 17 officials responsible for the matter, including temporary salary cuts.
Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera told reporters that the search for the logs had been insufficient and that office work was handled inappropriately.
Key words : Trump met at the white house
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US President Donald Trump and South Korean President Moon Jae-in will meet at the White House in Washington on Tuesday.
They are expected to discuss how to deal with North Korea ahead of the US-North Korea summit planned for June 12th.
Last week, the North threatened to cancel the summit if Washington insists that Pyongyang must unilaterally abandon its nuclear weapons. Trump responded that the North's regime will be protected if it agrees to denuclearize.
Trump's meeting with Moon follows their telephone conversation on Sunday. Trump will likely listen to what Moon has to say on the intentions of the North Korean leader.
Moon met with Kim Jong Un in late April. He will explain the details of the inter-Korean summit to Trump and listen to his thoughts.
He apparently wants to help narrow the gap between the US and the North over denuclearization.
Key words : Insight economic forum hosted by Russia summit talk
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Key words : nuclear watchdog
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Japan's nuclear watchdog says decay has been found in control-room ventilation ducts for 12 of the country's nuclear reactors.
The Nuclear Regulation Authority says it is examining the possible impact of this condition. The plants' operators say it will not result in staff exposure to radiation in the event of an accident.
The NRA said on Wednesday that 7 nuclear power plants are involved.
The authority had ordered checks at all plants in January last year after holes were found a month earlier in ventilation ducts at the Shimane plant in western Japan.
Among the latest findings was a hole 13 centimeters by 5 centimeters in a duct at the central control room for the No. 3 reactor at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant run by Tokyo Electric Power.
Holes several millimeters across were found in control-room ventilation ducts for another reactor at the plant that the utility is preparing to restart.
Key words : Koga tested positive
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Japanese Olympic swimmer Junya Koga has tested positive for substances banned by the World Anti-Doping Agency.
Koga revealed at a news conference on Wednesday that he failed a doping test in Tokyo on March 2nd, and a follow-up test as well.
He was suspended from competition by the International Swimming Federation on May 15th.
Koga said the banned substances may have been in nutritional supplements he began taking in February of this year.
He claimed he did not take the banned substances intentionally, and said he is ashamed to have tested positive.
Koga competed in the Rio de Janeiro Olympics in 2016.
He will not take part in the Japan Open that begins in Tokyo on Thursday. The Japan Swimming Federation will not send Koga to compete in the Asian Games to be held in Indonesia in August.
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