VOX Populi: Key questions in the Moritomo Gakuen scandal still unanswered

It makes me sad to imagine a scene of the black smoke that blogs into the sky.

Eighty years ago in this country, the pages and pages of official documents were destroyed by the military, which is not a surprise.

The same thing also happened in the Foreign Ministry, in which a whopping 6,698 volumes of diplomatic documents were destroyed shortly before and after Japan's defeat in World War II, mainly by combustion.

What feared the ministry's senior bureaucrats were the documents that fell into the hands of outsiders. Although it was opposition to destroy them, it seemed that the officials ultimately agreed so that they were not asked about their responsibility for war.

The decision to combat was made on August 7, 1945, one day after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.

I am now wondering how many official documents were destroyed by the Ministry of Finance.

It was brought to light that some of the recently triggered documents of the ministry about the Moritomo -Gakuen scandal were missing from crucial parts that were assumed that they affect a certain politician and his wife.

The Ministry has admitted to having destroyed these parts and acted inappropriately.

In the case of this scandal, the most feared bureaucrats were questioned by the opposition legislators in the diet.

At that time Prime Minister Shinzo ABE said: “If my wife and I were told that we are involved (in the scandal), I would immediately resign as prime minister and from nutrition.”

But should we really believe that no politician was involved or that not a single politician said and in the expectation of what would be expected?

In the long term, documents that are impractical for the administration of time can also pass on vital certificates and historical lessons. As such, they are not only valuable assets of the people who live and live in the future, but also serve to solemn the honor of those who have died for long -term injustice.

Why did the government sell its country at an incredibly low price?

Did the Ministry of Finance mean that it was okay to “investigate” the case as if it were not a big deal, and then ignorance because the relevant documents were destroyed?

If this is the position of the ministry, it couldn't be wrong.

The people who created the documents are still there, as are the people they got rid of.

I ask that the scandal will be thoroughly examined this time and this time.

-The Asahi Shimbun, May 17th

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