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MORITOMO GAKUEN

Japan Times
JAPAN
Mar 13, 2017
Pressure continues to mount on Moritomo Gakuen chief
Pressure on Yasunori Kagoike, head of scandal-plagued Moritomo Gakuen, in the Diet and in Osaka Prefecture showed no sign of abating Monday even though he withdrew his application to open a new elementary school and indicated last week he would resign.
Japan Times
JAPAN / EXPLAINER
Mar 13, 2017
Abe stands his ground as Moritomo Gakuen scandal drags on
More than a month has passed since nationalistic school operator Moritomo Gakuen first made headlines over a controversial land deal for its next school.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Mar 11, 2017
2017 looks more like '1984' than 1984 ever did
Goerge Orwell's '1984' is a fitting best-seller for 2017, a year of 'post-truth,' 'fake news' and 'alternative facts.'
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT
Mar 11, 2017
Abe's revisionism nets own goals at home and away
What links Osaka, Seoul, Busan and Glendale, California? Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's championing of revisionist history.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Mar 10, 2017
Moritomo Gakuen head to resign, withdraw controversial school application
Moritomo Gakuen President Yasunori Kagoike announced his intention to resign Friday after telling Osaka Prefecture that he was withdrawing an application to approve the opening of a new elementary school.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Mar 9, 2017
On-site investigation at Moritomo Gakuen suddenly cut short; new fraud claims emerge
Thursday night visit by prefectural officials shut down when the school's staff allegedly interfered with the investigation.
JAPAN
Mar 7, 2017
Moritomo Gakuen overstated school construction costs in ministry filing, records show
Moritomo Gakuen, under fire for a questionable land deal with the government, vastly overstated construction costs for a new elementary school in paperwork submitted to the land ministry, records show.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Mar 5, 2017
Rule change could see Abe become nation's longest-serving leader
The ruling Liberal Democratic Party rubber-stamps an internal rule change to extend the maximum tenure of its president from the current six years to nine.
EDITORIALS
Mar 3, 2017
A shady deal over state-owned land
The government should address questions raised by the steeply discounted sale of public land to an Osaka-based school operator.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Mar 2, 2017
Grilled over Osaka land deal, Abe balks at demand for probe into LDP
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe rejects demands for an investigation into his Liberal Democratic Party over the school land deal in Osaka some are now calling the “Akheed scandal.”
JAPAN
Feb 28, 2017
Osaka Prefecture relaxed school-approval system rules after Moritomo Gakuen request
Osaka's governor said Tuesday the prefecture relaxed regulations regarding the approval system for opening schools after a nationalist private kindergarten operator made a request, but denied it influenced the decision.

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