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dagon
The board chairman at one of Japan's largest universities, embroiled in a breach-of-trust case with a former board member, was arrested Monday for allegedly evading about 53 million yen ($468,000) in income tax.
Waiting for the investigations and prosecutions for the several LDP bigwigs listed in the Panama Papers. There has sure been a lot of global three monkeys action on those revelations. Tanaka is just a medium-sized fish , tainted, and will be used an example to the masses to pay your taxes.
gkamburoff
Are bribes legal in Japan?
shogun36
You can be sure he isn’t the only one.
In fact, it’s a prerequisite for each University to have at least one person to embezzle something at some point in time in Japan.
JDoe
Business as usual in Japan.
Cricky
That’s undeclared income, is he in detention? Are they questioning him? I sure hope he is barred from talking to friends and family. What facility is he being held at?
TomandJerry
No, they are not. But they are legal in the West. It is called endowments.
Legrande
Yes as indicated above Nihon U. is famous for being intimately affiliated with the yakuza.
gkamburoff
I asked about the bribes because the charges are not that he was bribed, that he was not charged with that and only charged for not paying taxes on them.
Strangerland
Suspicious claim is suspicious.
James
We must remember allegedly means not guilty until proven guilty regardless if Japan thinks it is guilty until you prove your innocence
Sure sure but the let the following leak or told it at the same time to form public opinion of guilt.
It is not unusual for Japanese people to have cash on hand since the banks here do not give you anything for having savings with them but like to charge you for taking money out. (at least it used to) although 100mill is a little more than I have on hand but I have heard of people having much more.
I have no idea if he is guilty or not and he will likely buckle under "interviews" and admit his guilt and be prosecuted and given a small fine and ordered to pay some tax (all of it will likely = 100mill yen) but we probably won't hear anymore about this again.
Derek Grebe
What?
You mean the chap who FIVE YEARS AGO was pegged by Western media as a known Yakuza associate isn't squeaky clean?
https://www.vice.com/en/article/gynegw/this-may-be-the-most-dangerous-and-most-costly-photo-in-japan
I'm shocked - shocked - to learn that the man might be a crook.
jeancolmar
This is not an isolated case, I'm sure.
Tora
He must have seriously pissed off a few of his mates for them to decide to take him down like this. Like others have said, he was a well known crook. Finally, done for "tax evasion". Yeah, right.
AramaTaihenNoYouDidnt
That dust swept under the carpet sooner or later will expose itself! Busted.
Coulda been
Sounds a bit Al Caponish.
jeancolmar
Reckless, I've met the same sort of people. When they get into education, that comparatively speaking, does not have that much money, everything goes straight to heck.