Japan’s Aso apologizes for Ministry's involvement in the alteration

Japanese Finance Minister Taro Aso was on the wires last minutes, via Reuters, speaking at the scheduled press conference over the suspected cronyism scandal.

Key Headlines:

Documents were altered.

Apologises for ministry's involvement in the alteration.

Alterations in the land sale documents were extremely regrettable.

To fully cooperate with the probe.

Some ministry staff ordered alteration of documents.

Entire investigation isn't complete yet.

No intention to resign.