Post branches keep 19.9Myen slashfunds in their desks

[Taro Toporific]

'Japan Post branches got 100 mil. yen in kickbacks'
Yomiuri Shimbun / May 31
The Tokyo Regional Taxation Bureau suspects the Tokyo and Kanto branches of Japan Post received 100 million yen in kickbacks over a four-year period from a Tokyo travel agency....
apan Post said general affairs officials at the branches kept cash worth 19.9 million yen--the slush funds announced in February--in their desks.
"We felt raising off-the-book funds was part of our job," an employee at the Tokyo branch told The Yomiuri Shimbun. "Employees who could raise slush funds were highly regarded by superiors."

[Captain Japan]

The Tokyo Regional Taxation Bureau suspects the Tokyo and Kanto branches of Japan Post received 100 million yen in kickbacks over a four-year period from a Tokyo travel agency....
apan Post said general affairs officials at the branches kept cash worth 19.9 million yen--the slush funds announced in February--in their desks.
"We felt raising off-the-book funds was part of our job," an employee at the Tokyo branch told The Yomiuri Shimbun. "Employees who could raise slush funds were highly regarded by superiors."

I love how the Yomiuri cranks this stuff out completely straight-faced. It's almost a reason to subscribe. Almost.

[Taro Toporific]

"We felt raising off-the-book funds was part of our job," an employee at the Tokyo branch told The Yomiuri Shimbun. "Employees who could raise slush funds were highly regarded by superiors."

I love how the Yomiuri cranks this stuff out completely straight-faced. It's almost a reason to subscribe. Almost.

If it makes you feel any better....
Captain Japan has many times the Super Powers of the folks at the Daily Gomiuri: Your talents are being wasted on us and you should be writing such breathless prose for them.

[Captain Japan]

Taro, you already cracking a cold one today?

[Taro Toporific]

Taro, you already cracking a cold one today?

I am now 'cause the 5pm school bell just rang here in J-BORG Inc.

Speaking of drinking Coke Slushies with rum....

Tax officials suspect Ebara hid 540 million yen
Japan Times, Japan - Apr 28, 2004 Plant engineering firm Ebara Corp. has been accused of hiding 540 million yen in income over three years through fiscal 2002, including roughly 300 million yen in suspected slush funds