![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
arashitranslation
Today the Finance Ministry announced that it was a fact that 14 settlement documents showing the chronicle of the sale of a state-owned land to Moritomo Gakuen were “altered” with the instruction of the Financial Bureau of the Finance Ministry.
For instance, an entire section of the entry “chronicle up to the leasing contract” was excised, in that there were parts indicating the involvement of the Finance Ministry such as “with the coordination of the Finance Ministry's Financial Bureau”, “it will be processed after being approved by the bureau chief”.
The next point to be focused on is that the part “results of negotiation on price etc.” was excised.
Originally, regarding the sale of state-owned land, before the actual procedure, there is no negotiation on price between the Finance Ministry and the buyer.
While Sagawa-shi denied the prior price negotiation in the Diet saying “I have never offered a price from here”, according to Finance Minister Aso, the documents were altered in accordance with such answers of Sagawa-shi.
In the first place, what kind of document is the “settlement document”?
Starting from the Finance Ministry, the ministries and agencies make records of the works they did in the form of document based on law, such documents must be kept for a period of time.
In order to be able to examine the chronicles and processes determined by the national policy, it is called “document-based principle”, so to speak “the foundation of democracy”.
According to the experts, triggered by the incidents that the reliability of the official documents is wavered such as the “lost pension record problem”, this principle is said to have been reflected in the law as well.
According to the Cabinet Office, around 18 millions official documents are created by all ministries and agencies per year.
One of these official documents is “settlement document”.
It is a document confirming that a person with decision-making authority made approval by stamping the documents etc.
In fact, looking at one of the settlement documents in concern this time, the retention period of the document is checked at “30 years” the longest, reflecting that this is an important document.
If we move our eyes downwards, in addition to the drafter who created the document, Deputy Director-General, Deputy Commissioner, in addition, the people in charge of other related departments etc., a lot of people have stamped the document, indicating that it was approved within the Kinki Local Financial Bureau.
According to former officials of the Finance Ministry, apart from mistakes such as typos or mistakes of numbers, it is said that the alteration of settlement documents is not normal.
Why did such incident which should not happen happen?
The explanation of the Finance Ministry today just leaves the mystery as it is.
Source: News Zeroイチメン (http://www.ntv.co.jp/zero/ichimen/2018/03/14-180030.html)
no subject
Date: 2018-04-05 12:52 pm (UTC)My brain will explode since I don't know what is the truth.