Yasunori Kagoike, the former head of an Osaka-based educational institution at the center of a murky real estate deal — who claims Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his wife were involved in the deal — used to idolize Abe. "I am where I am now ...

Social media went atwitter over reports that Japan's first lady, Akie Abe, might have pretended not to speak English to avoid talking with U.S. President Donald Trump.

U.S. President Donald Trump is a man of controversy and nobody would be surprised if he caused another one. But during a recent interview with The New York Times, Trump kicked off an unexpected debate about Japan's first lady: Can Akie Abe, the wife of ...

Yasunori Kagoike, the former chief of scandal-tainted school operator Moritomo Gakuen, is asking the Osaka Prefectural Assembly to set up a powerful special investigation committee over a scrapped plan to open an elementary school. "I want to get Osaka Gov. Ichiro Matsui and other related ...

The Moritomo Gakuen school group may have padded the number of children with special needs at its kindergarten to fraudulently receive subsidies from Osaka Prefecture, informed sources said Wednesday. The number of such children reported by the group's Tsukamoto Kindergarten was far above the prefectural ...

Overnight raid comes as Osaka school operator with ties to Abe is alleged to have fraudulently received ¥61.8 million.

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 ...

In American newspapers, wire services, cable TV and blogs, U.S. President Donald Trump is beset by a host of recurring brickbats, from complaints over his refusal to make public his income tax returns and alleged Russian connections, to his reputation as a male chauvinist ...

The shadowy Moritomo Gakuen scandal takes a new twist after a recording of the land negotiations between its former chief and the Finance Ministry emerges.