Skip to main content
World in Brief: Saturday March 10

JAPAN: Finance Minister Taro Aso said yesterday that he had no plan to quit following the resignation of tax agency chief Nobuhisa Sagawa, whom he had appointed in July, over a cronyism scandal involving Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.

Mr Sagawa had been accused of trying to hush up claims that a private school linked to Mr Abe’s wife got a sweetheart deal on land in Osaka.

As financial bureau chief, Mr Sagawa falsely claimed that documents relating to the sale had been destroyed, other papers appear to have been doctored.

The 95th Anniversary Appeal
Support the Morning Star
You have reached the free limit.
Subscribe to continue reading.
Similar stories
HIGH SPIRITS: During a school activity in a park in Havana on March 4 2026 while a man holds up a photo of Fidel Castro with an ‘in my heart’ message
Latin America / 14 March 2026
14 March 2026

As the US intensifies its economic and political pressure it is now vitally important to demand the British government intervene to end US aggression, writes GEOFF BOTTOMS

Cubans queue for petrol
Latin America / 2 February 2026
2 February 2026

On January 29, US President Donald Trump declared Cuba an ‘unusual and extraordinary threat’ to US national security and tightened the blockade against the island nation MANOLO DE LOS SANTOS reports

Retired military personnel gather to call for the release of former servicemen accused of human rights violations during the last dictatorship, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, November 29, 2025
Argentina / 30 November 2025
30 November 2025