THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
December 15, 2021 at 16:50 JST
A document obtained by The Asahi Shimbun shows how infrastructure ministry officials instructed prefectural government workers to rewrite construction contract figures. (Yosuke Fukudome)
Infrastructure ministry bureaucrats instructed local government officials to inflate construction contract figures for the past eight years, an “egregious” and possibly illegal act that likely distorted key economic statistics, an Asahi Shimbun investigation revealed. [Read More]
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