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More than 20% of school library budget misappropriated

Sunday 11th May, 03:39 AM JST

TOKYO —

More than 20% of the central government’s budget of around 20 billion yen provided to municipal governments for the purchase of books for school libraries in fiscal 2007 was misappropriated, education ministry officials said Saturday.

Most local governments told the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology that they had used the money for other purposes because of financial difficulties, the officials said.

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8 Comments

  • rjd_jr at 07:27 AM JST - 11th May

    Let me guess, they used the budget for 'entertainment purposes.'

  • PleasureGelf at 08:13 AM JST - 11th May

    It's so sad when they spend book money on milk for hungry children.

  • romulus3 at 12:02 PM JST - 11th May

    pleaseuregelf,

    how long have you been here? rjd is more accurate. the money went to a hostess club and other pleasures. no one got milk unless it was a fetish they payed for.

  • PleasureGelf at 06:59 PM JST - 11th May

    romulus3,

    turn your irony detector on, will you?

  • capone at 12:13 AM JST - 12th May

    misappropriated=theft...too bad the japanese can't just call it what it is

  • romulus3 at 11:00 AM JST - 12th May

    PleasureGelf, it was on. my sarcasm detector however was malfunctioning. It has since come back on line. ooohh, Nice post!

  • himasan at 11:50 AM JST - 12th May

    misappropriated on pachinko

  • westurn at 12:28 PM JST - 12th May

    Plesuregelf...

    "It's so sad when they spend book money on milk for hungry children."

    Where did that come from ? It would certainly raise the next question... what happened to the money allocated for "milk for hungry children" ???

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