Moritomo Gakuen will now lose its nursery school license because it can't secure enough qualified child care specialists to staff its Osaka city-based nursery school, Osaka Mayor Hirofumi Yoshimura said Friday.
"After an order to suspend operations is issued, the city will move forward with procedures to cancel permission for the school's operation," Yoshimura told reporters Friday evening.
The latest blow to the scandal-plagued private school operator based in Osaka came the same day the Cabinet Secretariat confirmed that civil servants who accompanied Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's wife, Akie, on two visits to a separate Moritomo-run kindergarten in 2014 and 2015 did not file official travel documents for the trips.