大阪高等裁判所で、森友学園めぐる文書の不開示の決定を取り消し - 赤木俊夫さんの死を無駄死にしないために
安倍総理（当時）にまつわる疑惑はかなりありますが、「森友学園問題」もその一つです。Wikipedia には次のように書かれています。
「森友学園問題は、大阪市内で幼稚園などを経営していた学校法人「森友学園」が小学校用地として2016年（平成28年）6月20日に購入した大阪府豊中市の国有地をめぐる問題。該当の用地は更地価格9億5600万円から森友学園による地下埋蔵物撤去費用の約8億円が差し引かれて1億3,400万円で売却されたが、開設予定の小学校の名誉校長に当時首相であった安倍晋三の妻の昭恵が就任していたことから、売却価格の決定過程や、そこでの首相夫妻の関与などを巡って膨大な量の報道が行われ、安倍晋三の関与を巡る加計学園問題と併せて森友加計問題（モリカケ問題）とも称された。」
「悪い奴ほどよく眠る」の名言？どおり、公文書改ざんを指示したと言われる佐川理財局長（当時）は国会での苦しい答弁を逃げ切り、罪に問われることはありませんでした。公文書改ざんは佐川局長が個人的に指示したのか、それとも安倍総理から何らかの指示があったのか不明です。佐川氏には、ラッセルの言う「知的誠実さ」はほとんどみられません。安倍総理を守り切った見返りなのか、佐川氏はその後、国税庁長官に昇進しました。
犠牲になるのは常に弱者であり、実際に改ざん行為をした財務省近畿財務局職員の赤木俊夫さんは、真実を語らないまま、罪悪感から自殺に追い込まれてしまいました。
先日、大阪高等裁判所で、森友学園めぐる文書の不開示の決定を取り消す判決が下されました。幸いなことに、石破総理の決断もあり、国は控訴しないことになり、判決が確定しました。開示によってどこまで真相がわかるかわかりませんが、少なくとも佐川局長の個人的判断でやったことでないことはわかると思われます。そうでなければ、そのようなことをやって栄転するはずはありません。
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.
Source: Bertrand Russell: On Education, especially in early childhood, 1926, chap. 2 The Aims of Education
More info.： https://russell-j.com/beginner/OE02-210.HTM
