Woman in Japan sues state, former finance bureaucrat over husband's suicide

A woman in western Japan sued the state and a former finance bureaucrat on Wednesday, alleging her husband, who killed himself in 2018, suffered severe mental distress after being ordered to alter documents related to cronyism allegations against Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.Her husband, Toshio Akagi, was an official of the Kinki Local Finance Bureau when he committed suicide at the age of 54 in March 2018. He belonged to a section that negotiated a heavily discounted sale of state-owned land in Osaka to a school operator linked to the prime minister's wife.The Finance Ministry, which oversaw …READ FULL ARTICLE