Masako Akagi speaks to reporters in Osaka on May 6 while holding a document she received from the government over the record left by her late husband. (The Asahi Shimbun) The government has acknowledged the existence of a key document related to the Finance Ministry’s falsification of official documents over the dubious sale of state-owned land to Moritomo Gakuen, a private educational institution. The “Akagi file,” as the document is known, refers to a record of events kept by Toshio Akagi, an official at the ministry’s Kinki Local Finance Bureau, who committed suicide in 2018 in distress over the role he was ordered to play in the falsifications.