Key ex-bureaucrat in document scandal to testify in Diet on March 27

A former Finance Ministry bureaucrat will give sworn testimony in the Diet on March 27 over the falsification of government documents linked to cronyism allegations against Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Japan's ruling and opposition parties agreed Tuesday.Opposition parties had been calling for the summoning of Nobuhisa Sagawa, who stepped down as head of the National Tax Agency, a unit of the Finance Ministry, earlier this month.He is alleged to have made false remarks in parliament last year related to a heavily discounted sale of state-owned land to a school operator with connections to Abe…READ FULL ARTICLE