Japan's finance chief Taro Aso to take pay cut over document altering

Japanese Finance Minister Taro Aso said Monday he will forfeit part of his salary to take responsibility for his ministry's falsification of documents related to cronyism allegations against Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, but he batted away calls from opposition parties for him to resign.Aso will voluntarily return 1.7 million yen ($15,500), the annual amount he receives as a member of the Cabinet but will keep the more than 20 million yen he earns as a lawmaker.The doctored documents -- totaling roughly 4,000 pages -- were related to the 2016 sale of a plot of state-owned land in Osaka Prefect…READ FULL ARTICLE