Courage is essential to intellectual probity, as well as to physical heroism.
Source: Bertrand Russell: On Education, especially in early childhood, 1926, chap. 2 The Aims of Education
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There are quite a few allegations surrounding then-Prime Minister Abe, and the "Moritomo Gakuen Scandal" is one of them. Wikipedia describes it as follows:
The Moritomo Gakuen Scandal is an issue concerning a piece of state-owned land in Toyonaka City, Osaka Prefecture, which was purchased on June 20, 2016, by the school corporation Moritomo Gakuen, which operated kindergartens and other institutions in Osaka. The land, initially valued at 956 million yen as vacant land, was sold for 134 million yen after an approximately 800 million yen deduction for the removal of buried waste. Since then-Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s wife, Akie, was set to become the honorary principal of the elementary school planned for the site, the process of determining the sale price, as well as the involvement of the prime minister and his wife, became the subject of extensive media coverage. Together with the Kake Gakuen scandal, which also involved allegations of Abe’s involvement, the issue was collectively referred to as the "Moritomo-Kake Scandal" (often abbreviated as "Mori-Kake Scandal").Does the famous saying from The Bad Sleep Well apply here? Then-National Tax Agency Commissioner Nobuhisa Sagawa, who was accused of instructing the falsification of official documents, managed to evade responsibility with evasive testimony in the National Diet and was never held legally accountable. It remains unclear whether the document falsification was solely Sagawa’s decision or if Prime Minister Abe had given him some form of instruction. However, Sagawa himself showed little of what Bertrand Russell would call "intellectual probity." Perhaps as a reward for successfully protecting Abe, Sagawa was later promoted to Commissioner of the National Tax Agency.
It is always the weak who suffer. In this case, Toshio Akagi, an official at the Kinki Local Finance Bureau of the Ministry of Finance, who was directly involved in the document falsification, was driven to suicide out of guilt?without ever having the chance to tell the truth.
Recently, the Osaka High Court overturned the government’s decision not to disclose documents related to the Moritomo Gakuen case. Fortunately, thanks to the decision of Prime Minister Ishiba, the government has chosen not to appeal, making the ruling final. While it remains uncertain how much of the truth will be revealed through the disclosure, at the very least, it is likely to confirm that the falsification was not simply Sagawa’s unilateral decision. If it had been, he certainly would not have been rewarded with a promotion.
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