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MORITOMO GAKUEN

JAPAN / Politics
Apr 4, 2017
Full clips of Akie Abe's Moritomo speeches posted to Akieleaks website
Full-length video clips from what appear to be speeches given by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's wife at a scandal-tainted kindergarten in Osaka have been anonymously posted online.
Japan Times
LIFE / Language / NEWS IN NIHONGO
Apr 3, 2017
Kagoike gives testimony before Diet
The Upper House Budget Committee calls Moritomo Gakuen chief Yasunori Kagoike to give sworn testimony.
JAPAN
Mar 31, 2017
Osaka investigators search Moritomo Gakuen over dubious cost estimates
The Osaka Prefectural Government sends investigators to search the headquarters of nationalist school entity Moritomo Gakuen for evidence of fraud regarding subsidies for a new elementary school.
JAPAN / Politics
Mar 27, 2017
Government enacts record-high budget, damping opposition efforts to keep spotlight on school land scandal
The Upper House approved a u00a597.45 trillion budget that highlighted an increase in defense spending — a record u00a55.13 trillion — reflecting a beefed-up effort to counter China and North Korea.
JAPAN / Politics
Mar 27, 2017
Abe rejects calls for wife to testify in Diet on Moritomo land scandal
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe rejected more calls from the opposition Monday for his wife, Akie, to testify before the Diet over whether she offered a ¥1 million donation to Osaka-based private school operator Moritomo Gakuen, saying it was unnecessary.
JAPAN
Mar 26, 2017
Moritomo Gakuen scandal another history Japan's nationalists may wish to rewrite
It began as a dream. Conservatives and nationalists, angry at what they saw as a public education system that taught a self-denigrating, incorrect view of Japan's 20th century history and upset at social changes they felt had led to a loss of respect among children for Japan's traditional values and...
JAPAN / Politics
Mar 25, 2017
Matsui takes jab at Abe's explanations as school land scandal closes in
Osaka Gov. Ichiro Matsui accuses Prime Minister Abe of being deceptive in denying that a tacit agreement on a nationalist school existed between him and the head of Moritomo Gakuen.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Mar 24, 2017
Abe denies involvement in school land deal as emails shine light on links to wife
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe denies the influence-peddling allegations made by the head of a nationalist school firm and uses his wife's email messages to make his case.
EDITORIALS
Mar 24, 2017
Clear up mess over school land deal
The Diet testimony of Moritomo Gakuen chief Yasunori Kagoike only served to deepen suspicions about a shady deal involving the sale of government land to the Osaka school operator.
JAPAN / Politics
Mar 23, 2017
In sworn testimony, Kagoike says he got ¥1 million in envelope during Akie Abe's visit
The head of Moritomo Gakuen tells the Diet in sworn testimony he got a u00a51 million donation from Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to fund his nationalist elementary school.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Mar 19, 2017
Once seen as invincible, Abe beset by scandal on two fronts as questions swirl
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, now in a rare fifth year as leader, is battling scandals on two separate fronts as questions swirl about his ties to a nationalist school involved in a murky land deal and his defense minister faces calls to resign.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Mar 19, 2017
What's so bad about Imperial Rescript on Education anyway?
The 19th century rescript caught up in the Moritomo Gakuen scandal is not just a collection of homely moral precepts.
Japan Times
JAPAN / View from Osaka
Mar 18, 2017
Moritomo scandal delivers an education in Japanese politics
"Our subjects ever united in loyalty and filial piety have from generation to generation illustrated the beauty thereof. This is the glory of the fundamental character of Our Empire, and herein also lies the source of Our education."
JAPAN / Politics
Mar 17, 2017
Abe denies claims of Moritomo donation, says he 'has no personal' ties to embattled principal
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe denied he and his wife made a donation to the beleaguered principal of an Osaka-based school operator to help him build a nationalist elementary school.
JAPAN / Politics
Mar 16, 2017
Abe donated to new Moritomo school, Kagoike claims
The head of scandal-tainted Moritomo Gakuen, Yasunori Kagoike, told a delegation of Diet members that he received a donation from Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
JAPAN / Politics
Mar 15, 2017
War of words erupts between Inada and head of Osaka school operator
Defense Minister Tomomi Inada faced a barrage of questions over her relationship with Moritomo Gakuen, as a war of words erupted between her and the wife of the controversial school operator.

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