TOKYO—Prime Minister Shinzo Abe didn’t order officials to alter documents in a sale of government land, a former Ministry of Finance official told Parliament Tuesday, backing Mr. Abe’s statements about a scandal that has hurt his cabinet’s poll ratings. “There was no instruction from the prime minister’s office,” said the former official, Nobuhisa Sagawa. He said the Finance Ministry’s Financial Bureau dealt with the issue internally.

Source: Wall Street Journal March 27, 2018 03:09 UTC