Japan finance minister Taro Aso on the wires
- Deeply apologises for alteration of documents
- Says that MOF will continue utmost efforts to explain in National Diet
- Documents alteration should not have happened
- Says that MOF settlement documents are not usually altered
- Checking whether or not there are similar alterations that happened elsewhere
- Believes that other departments have not altered documents
- Says that document alterations are outside "common sense"
- Does not think that documents were routinely doctored
Well, where was this line of thinking a year ago when the land sale was made?
A very typical response on the matter in trying to clear his name and tone down the national outcry that is going on. But he can't really play it any other way at this point. It's either this, or resign.
