Blame for this mess lies chiefly with the central bank, which has shown a grotesque inability to deal with even the most flagrant examples of asset-stripping, misreporting and outright fraud.
While Mr Ozawa is a divisive figure who faces trial on charges of misreporting political donations, he is still thought to hold sway over more than 100 members of the Diet, our correspondent adds.
And still, due to Haaretz's misreporting, Israeli diplomats are being called into the chanceries of the world and raked over the coals for the country's alleged plot to conduct a mass expulsion of Palestinians.
But it was compelled to write the letter, it added, due to what it said was misreporting by the media and so "any future consideration of the matter by Parliament can take place on an informed basis".
Misreporting becomes a bona fide issue only when the different set of numbers filed in China was filed before an agency whose mandate warrants a requirement that numbers be accurate (such as the State Administration of Taxation) and that the differences be unexplainable by differing U.S. and Chinese accounting rules.