"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything." — Mark Twain
Two months have elapsed since the scandal involving Osaka-based private school operator Moritomo Gakuen went from a local land deal gone bad to a national political scandal. Yet we remain in the dark as to who is lying and who is telling the truth.
The result is that what really happened with the nationalist school and whether Akie Abe, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's wife, really gave Moritomo Gakuen's Yoshinori Kagoike a ¥1 million donation in her husband's name, is as clear as mud. Despite Kagoike's electrifying Diet testimony last month and the continued insistence of both he and his family that Akie Abe did hand him an envelope full of cash during a school visit on Sept. 5, 2015, she and the prime minister continue to strenuously deny it. Without solid evidence on either side, we remain in a "he said, she said" situation.