I thought that reporters have spent such a great deal of time on asking the candidates for the next administration about their views on the previous administration, but would readers be interested in the evaluation of the former administration as told by the next administration?

Finance Minister Taro Aso, saying he will not launch a reinvestigation into document tampering at his ministry in connection with the heavily discounted sale of state land to nationalist school operator Moritomo Gakuen, questioning whether readers would be interested in news reports regarding the issue.

© Mainichi Shimbun