財務省、森友文書を一部開示　交渉記録など２２００枚―赤木さん妻に・改ざん問題

　学校法人森友学園への国有地売却に関する公文書改ざん問題で、財務省は４日、改ざんを指示されて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（５４）に関連文書の一部を開示した。雅子さんと代理人弁護士が東京・霞が関の同省を訪れ、受け取った。
　開示されたのは、近畿財務局に存在していた２０１３年６月～１６年６月の土地取引の経緯に関する約２２００枚の文書。６冊に分けられ、学園側との交渉記録のほか、これまで公表されていない財務省本省との間でやりとりされたメールなどが含まれている。
　国有地が大幅に値引きされる根拠となった地中のごみを巡り、学園側から厳しく追及され、対応に追われる様子なども記録されている。黒塗りにされた部分は個人名など一部にとどまる。
　文書は同省が検察に任意提出していたもので、雅子さんが開示を求めていた。大阪高裁が今年１月に不開示決定を取り消したことを受け、加藤勝信財務相が３月、開示を表明した。（2025/04/04-18:49）

Japan's Ministry of Finance on Friday partially disclosed documents regarding the dubious sale of state-owned land to Moritomo Gakuen to the widow of a MOF official who killed himself in the high-profile document-tampering scandal.
   At the ministry, the widow, Masako Akagi, and her proxy lawyer received about 2,200 pages in six volumes of more than 170,000 pages of the documents.
   The disclosed portion, kept by the MOF's Kinki Local Finance Bureau, where her husband, Toshio, was working, contains records on the process of the land sale at a huge discount to the Osaka-based private school operator and email messages sent and received by officials of the ministry and the bureau between June 2013 and June 2016. Some parts have been blacked out.
   The Kinki bureau official committed suicide in March 2018, when he was 54, after being ordered to tamper with Moritomo-related documents. The ministry started the misconduct after then Prime Minister Shinzo Abe told a parliamentary meeting that he would quit not only as prime minister but as a lawmaker if he or his wife, Akie, or both were found to have been involved in the land deal. Akie was named honorary principal of an elementary school that was to be built on the land plot in question.
   Masako had been asking for the disclosure of all of the documents, which were voluntarily submitted to public prosecutors by the ministry.