「森友」調査求め、３５万人署名　自殺職員の妻呼び掛け

　学校法人森友学園への国有地売却に関する財務省の決裁文書改ざん問題で、自殺した近畿財務局職員赤木俊夫さん＝当時（５４）＝の妻の代理人は１５日、有識者らによる第三者委員会で再調査するよう安倍晋三首相らに求める約３５万人分の署名を内閣官房に提出した。
　代理人の松丸正弁護士らによると、署名は３月２７日からインターネット上で募り、今月１４日までに３５万２６５９筆が集まった。
　改ざん問題に関し、安倍首相は国会答弁などで再調査しない考えを示している。赤木さんの妻は発表したコメントの中で、公正中立な調査を求めるとともに、「たくさんの人たちが応援してくれることを知ったら、夫は追い詰められずに生きていたかもしれない」とつづった。（2020/06/15-16:41）

Lawyers for the widow of a self-slaughtered Ministry of Finance official presented to the Cabinet Secretariat Monday more than 350,000 signatures calling on Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to launch reinvestigation into a high-profile document-tampering scandal involving the ministry and school operator Moritomo Gakuen.
   According to the lawyers including Tadashi Matsumaru, the proxy for the wife of late Toshio Akagi, the number of signatures solicited online since March 27 reached 352,659 on Sunday. The Change.org website showed that the figure kept growing on Monday.
   The widow demands that a panel of third-party experts be set up and find out why her husband, then an official at the ministry's Kinki Local Finance Bureau, had to kill himself on March 7, at age 54.
   After his death, she disclosed Akagi's memos and suicide note clarifying that Nobuhisa Sagawa, then director-general of the ministry's Financial Bureau, instructed the tampering of documents related chiefly to the sale of a state land tract to the west Japan-based school operator, whose owner couple claims to have close ties with Abe's wife, Akie, at a huge discount.
   "My husband might find a way out and stay alive if he knew many people were supporting him," Akagi's wife said in a statement Monday while calling for a fair reinvestigation.