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© KYODOWoman sues state, former finance bureaucrat over husband's suicide
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Rizdown
It beggars belief that Sagawa and the others weren't prosecuted.
Isn't Japanese justice wonderful?
Jeniffer
The person who ordered this thing would be definitely Aso......
Ascissor
It's for reasons such as this that Abe wanted to keep his man as the top public prosecutor, by "reinterpreting" the law about the mandatory retirement age.
borscht
It’s a pity Akagi had no one he could inform about Sagawa’s orders to change documents to please Abe and his friends. If only there were an organization or department that allowed whistleblowers to submit documents. But being Japan is ruled by Abe this will never happen. Pity to Mrs Akagi and her family.
quercetum
Will Abe survive the Moritomo Gakuen scandal?
Spitfire
Man,the justice system over here sucks.I wish the lady well.
Japan as always is safe on the outside but is soon dirty on the inside.
browny1
With all the leads / evidence in front of them the prosecutors rolled over and played dead.
No big sudden raid of the finance ministry and bureau.
No dozens of boxes of files, computer hard discs, mobile phones etc etc.
No persons taken into custody for questioning for 23 days and harassed to confess, confess, confess.
Nothing here. Lets move on.
I've said before on this forum a number of times, Abe & Aso have blood on their hands with the death of Akagi.
Sontaku rules this country. No doubt about it.
And in this the new era of Rei-Wa, Rei certainly means obey.
TARA TAN KITAOKA
A man is dead here and his wife is summiting documents written by him. May god help them. How can people who have blood on their hand go free ???. An eye for an eye.
drlucifer
Bereaucrats and big politicians and prosecutors no matter what they do are above law largely due to the passivity of the populace and a media run by oldboys who are bent on maintaining their influence and the status quo.
The shredding of documents is so rampant if it is made an olympic sports Japan will be the undisputed winner of Gold.
Just of my head, Nagano olympics, Tokyo 2020 bid records, moritomo, kake, sakura no kai.
Mr Kipling
What were his options?
Quit
Spill the beans
Take a holiday
leave the country
kill himself
He chose the stupid option.
Throw the case out!
smithinjapan
I feel sorry for this woman, but I'll tell her right now what the verdict will be:
"While the court recognizes the man was under stress, and that is regrettable, the state cannot be held responsible for the man's suicide. Not guilty. However, the government will pay her 10,000 yen in compensation for her loss, given that the man was forced into sever distress... ummm.. even though they are innocent."
Wallace Fred
What does corruption look like? What does a banana republic look like?
sir_bentley28
How can you make that judgement? You have NO IDEA what he must've been going through before he made his choice. Let me debunk YOUR stupid option to post this and try to put ourselves in his shoes ;
Quit - Perhaps he couldn't because he has bills to pay and a family to support
Spill the beans - Doing so could greatly put himself, his family and those around him in grave danger
Take a holiday - (see answer for "Quit")
Leave the country - (see above answer)
kill himself - With no one to turn to, talk to help him (because he probably knew that if he went to the police, things would turn out bad for him because of the people and names involved) and dealing with the depression the whole situation, he must've reached his breaking point.
He sounds like an honest man who couldn't deal with the pressures of doing something as dishonest as what he was being forced to do.