On March 12, 2018, the Ministry of Finance reported to directors of the Budget Committee of the House of Councillors that 14 documents had been altered in dozens of places. The documents concerned a transaction of state land with the school operator Moritomo Gakuen. According to Akahata, the newspaper of the Communist Party, the ministry’s Financial Bureau had altered the lease and sale resolutions and a kessai bunsho, an approval document.
Akahata reported that the deleted passages included the names of Prime Minister Abe Shinzō, his wife Akie and several other politicians.