For over 20 years, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism had rewritten or overstated data when compiling its monthly construction orders.
The Japanese land ministry on Friday punished 10 officials in connection with a decades-long rewriting of statistics that may have led the country's gross domestic product figures to be miscalculated. Vice Minister Kunihiro Yamada and nine other officials received punishments such as pay cuts and reprimands, while land minister Tetsuo…