A close aide to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe last year urged the then-top education ministry bureaucrat to push forward the procedure for the opening of a veterinary medicine school, the bureaucrat said Tuesday.
The approval of the school, operated by a close friend of Abe, is at the center of influence-peddling allegations involving the Prime Minister’s Office.
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