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.
Masako Akagi, the widow of a former ministry official, is seeking the disclosure of documents detailing the high-profile records-tampering scandal involving school operator Moritomo Gakuen.
The widow of a former Finance Ministry bureaucrat who took his own life after he was ordered to falsify documents on Oct. 11 asked Prime Minister Fumio Kishida to reopen the probe into the Moritomo Gakuen educational institution scandal.