Japan Finance Minister Aso likely to skip G20 meeting: sources

TOKYO (Reuters) – Japanese Finance Minister Taro Aso is likely to skip the Group of 20 finance leaders’ gathering to be held in Buenos Aires next week, government and ruling party officials said on Tuesday, as a cronyism scandal that has paralyzed parliament swirled at home.

Masatsugu Asakawa, Japan’s top financial diplomat, would attend the G20 meeting in Aso’s place if he chose not to go, the sources with knowledge of the plans told Reuters.

Premier Shinzo Abe and Aso, his close ally, are under pressure following the finance ministry’s announcement it had altered records of a discounted sale of state-owned land to a school operator with ties to Abe’s wife.

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