The Cabinet Office apologized Tuesday for telling the Hachinohe board of education in Aomori Prefecture to plant people in a town meeting who would make remarks in support of a controversial government bill to revise the education law.
Cabinet Office officials also revealed during a Diet committee meeting that the Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Ministry, which administers the education law, had written out questions and statements for those people to use at the Sept. 2 meeting.
The board enlisted three people, two of whom spoke at the meeting, using the ministry's prepared remarks.