NHK and NTV gave top play to reports that the Finance Ministry is planning to suspend former Finance Bureau chief Sagawa for three months for instructing ministry officials to tamper with documents related to Moritomo Gakuen. TBS and TV Asahi led with reports that a man indicted for murdering a 9-year-old Vietnamese girl in Chiba last year pleaded not guilty at his first hearing on Monday. Fuji TV gave top play to a report on the suspicious death of a well-known real estate mogul in Wakayama.