MAIZURU, Kyoto Prefecture A gasoline depot that the Imperial Japanese Navy built on an uninhabited island here after World War I has opened to the public for the first time.
The scandal over the Morimoto Gakuen school operator, which compromised the foundations of democracy, should not be dismissed and forgotten as something of the past.
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.