The decision to pay compensation to the widow of a Finance Ministry employee who committed suicide amid a document falsification scandal shows the government s determination to avoid a serious investigation at any cost.
The government agreed to pay full compensation to the widow of a Finance Ministry employee who killed himself in 2018, but she said she was disgusted by the abrupt move that ended her lawsuit.
The Japanese government has agreed to pay damages to a former finance ministry bureaucrat s wife who alleges her husband killed himself after being ordered to tamper documents related to favoritism allegations against then Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, the wife s lawyer says.
The decision to pay around ¥100 million ends the suit between the state and plaintiff and ensures the process leading to the alteration of the documents will not be revealed.