財務省も文書不開示決定　赤木さん妻請求―改ざん問題

　学校法人森友学園への国有地売却をめぐる財務省の公文書改ざん問題で、自殺した同省近畿財務局職員赤木俊夫さん＝当時（５４）＝の妻雅子さん（５０）による行政文書の開示請求について、同省は１３日までに不開示決定をした。１１日付。
　雅子さんの代理人弁護士が明らかにした。雅子さんは８月、財務省がまとめた調査報告書の関連文書などの開示を請求。同局も１１日付で不開示決定をしていた。
　鈴木俊一財務相名の決定通知書では、調査報告書の作成時に収集した文書について「職員の監察に関する資料で、一部でも公にすれば今後同種の調査に必要な協力を得られなくなる」と指摘。「未成熟な情報で、不当に国民の間に混乱を生じさせる恐れがある」とも記した。（2021/10/13-16:48）

The Ministry of Finance has rejected an information disclosure request from the widow of a former official of a western Japan bureau of the ministry over a high-profile public records-tampering scandal, it was learned Wednesday.
   The request was made in August by Masako Akagi, 50, whose husband, Toshio, killed himself at the age of 54 in 2018 over the scandal involving the ministry and school operator Moritomo Gakuen, once linked to the wife of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
   The Kinki Local Finance Bureau has also rejected the request for the release of documents related to an investigation report by the ministry about the tampering.
   Both the ministry and the bureau made the nondisclosure decisions on Monday.
   "My expectations were repeatedly betrayed," Masako Akagi told reporters in the western city of Osaka on Wednesday.