By NAOKI TSUZAKA/ Staff Writer
June 17, 2020 at 15:08 JST
Lawyers for the widow of Finance Ministry official Toshio Akagi at a news conference in Tokyo on June 15 after a petition was submitted to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (The Asahi Shimbun)
Finance Minister Taro Aso again ruled out a new investigation into a document falsification scandal involving his ministry that led to the suicide of one of its officials, despite a petition signed by hundreds of thousands of people and submitted by the widow calling for a fresh probe. [Read More]
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