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GAKUEN JI

Japan Times
JAPAN
Nov 10, 2017
Veterinary school hit by Abe cronyism allegations gets ministry panel's OK to open
A plan by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's friend to open a veterinary school on Shikoku clears an education ministry panel, taking the heavily criticized project one step closer to approval.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Nov 9, 2017
Japan's buzzwords of 2017 cover everything from politics to poop
Thirty candidates for the buzzword of the year were announced Thursday, covering everything from popular poop kanji workbook to fake news to Hifumin, the nickname for a 77-year-old shogi pro who retired in June after wowing fans for decades with his aggressive playing styles and charm.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Nov 3, 2017
Education ministry likely to approve Kake veterinary school at center of Abe cronyism allegations
Despite cronyism allegations dogging Prime Minister Abe, his pal Kotaro Kake is likely to get permission to open Japan's first new veterinary school in half a century, sources say.
EDITORIALS
Oct 20, 2017
The Kake and Moritomo scandals and the bureaucracy
Even if Prime Minister Shinzo Abe survives the election, he shouldn't forget he still owes the people a full explanation of the Kake Gakuen and Moritomo Gakuen scandals.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Sep 21, 2017
How Kake Gakuen's application process bucked the norm
School operator Kake Gakuen's application to open a new veterinary medicine department strayed from well established procedures.
JAPAN / Politics
Sep 16, 2017
Ruling bloc says extraordinary Diet session to kick off Sept. 28
A package of bills related to work-life reforms, including one aimed at rectifying long working hours, are expected to be a key issue during the session.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics / CABINET INTERVIEW 2017
Aug 30, 2017
New guidelines governing documents to be put in place by year-end: Kajiyama
The government will draw up a set of guidelines by year-end on how administrative documents should be managed, including a clearer definition of papers that can be discarded within one year, a newly-appointed minister in charge of administrative reforms said Wednesday.
JAPAN / Politics
Aug 27, 2017
Given latest scandals, Japanese government looks to revise document-shredding rules
In the wake of several scandals, the government will launch a debate before month's end on revising how administrative documents should be managed.
JAPAN
Aug 25, 2017
Teen hoops player in critical condition with heatstroke after 43 penalty laps from teacher
A Tokyo high school student is in critical condition after coming down with heatstroke during a punitive basketball practice, officials said Friday.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Aug 21, 2017
Former chief of scandal-hit Osaka school operator faces another arrest for fraud
The former chief of the school operator embroiled in a scandal involving its discounted purchase of government land faced a new arrest warrant Monday for defrauding subsidies from the Osaka Prefectural Government, investigative sources said.
JAPAN / Politics
Aug 20, 2017
Government mulls plan to assign record-keeping supervisor to each ministry
Japan might install officials dedicated to supervising the management of administrative documents at each government ministry to prevent important records from being discarded, a government source said.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT
Aug 19, 2017
Abe tries to ride out storm in bid to restore trust deficit
A shoo-in a few months ago, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's plunge in popularity imperils his re-election to a third term as LDP president in September 2018, fueling speculation about when he will go and who will replace him. That said, it's still too soon to count him out.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Aug 19, 2017
Kagoike soon to receive second arrest warrant over subsidy fraud
Yasunori Kagoike faces a second arrest warrant for subsidy fraud in connection with the sweetheart land deal he negotiated for his nationalist school in Osaka, sources say.
EDITORIALS
Aug 18, 2017
Decision deferred on Kake Gakuen's plan
The education ministry should make public the discussions its panel held on Kake Gakuen's plan to open a new veterinary science school.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics / CABINET INTERVIEW 2017
Aug 10, 2017
New education chief looks to repair ministry's tarnished image
The new education minister says he will decide on whether to approve scandal-tainted school operator Kake Gakuen's bid to open a new veterinary department after weighing the results of an ongoing screening by the ministry's panel of experts.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Aug 9, 2017
New tax agency chief, apparently wary of Moritomo grilling, to skip debut news conference
The National Tax Agency has said its new chief, Nobuhisa Sagawa, will not hold an inaugural news conference, a tradition that dates back at least a decade.
Japan Times
LIFE / Language / NEWS IN NIHONGO
Aug 7, 2017
Kagoikes arrested over alleged Moritomo Gakuen subsidy fraud
The Osaka District Public Prosecutor's Office's special investigation unit on July 31 arrested Yasunori Kagoike, 64, former chief of Moritomo Gakuen in Osaka, and his wife, Junko, 60, for allegedly defrauding the central government of public subsidies.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT
Aug 5, 2017
Beleaguered Abe on the ropes as support weakens
The public has seen the true face of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and doesn't like what it sees.
EDITORIALS
Aug 2, 2017
Kagoike arrest isn't end of story
Prosecutors should refrain from using their arrest of the Kagoikes as an excuse for not acting on the Moritomo Gakuen land deal probe.
Japan Times
JAPAN / FOCUS
Aug 1, 2017
Close friendship with Abe and wife fell apart after final phone call, Moritomo's Kagoike claims
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.
'So hot you can't breathe': Extreme heat hits the Philippines
A pedestrian cools himself with a folding hand fan as he waits for a ride along a road in Manila on Wednesday, as extreme heat hit the Philippines.
Yen rebounds strongly after first slide past ¥160 since 1990
The yen dropped to ¥160.245 per dollar on Monday before heading into the other direction to ¥155.01 amid speculation of an intervention by Japanese currency authorities.
Did Japan intervene to prop up the yen? Analysts think it did.
A man walks past an electronic board displaying the exchange rate for the yen against the U.S. dollar (right) in Tokyo on Tuesday.
JAL cancels international flight after captain gets drunk at Dallas hotel
A Japan Airlines' flight from Dallas to Tokyo was canceled last week after its captain got drunk at a local hotel.
Golden Week crowds greeted with high temperatures as holiday period kicks off
The departure lobby for domestic flights is crowded with travelers at Haneda Airport in Tokyo on Saturday, the first day of this year's Golden Week holidays.
Climate change, chalky grains and the risks for Japan’s rice farmers
A farmer plants seedlings in Satsumasendai, Kagoshima Prefecture. Japan’s self sufficiency rate for rice is nearly 100%, compared with 38% for food overall, on a calorie basis.
Japan wants you to spend more with ‘luxury tourism’
Performers play a traditional drum unique to Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture, in the prefectural capital of Kanazawa on March 16 to mark the extension of the Hokuriku Shinkansen line to Tsuruga Station in Fukui Prefecture.
Theaster Gates’ ambitious ‘Afro-Mingei’ brings Black Chicago to Tokyo
Theaster Gates' “A Heavenly Chord” lines up church pews before seven speakers and a Hammond B3 organ, a type of electric organ prevalent in Black American churches.
Casa del Cibo: A thriving jewel born from Tohoku’s harsh past
When chef Ryohei Ikemi moved to Hachinohe, Aomori Prefecture, and opened Casa del Cibo in 2011, it was the first proper Italian restaurant in the city.
Town to block view of Mount Fuji in response to overtourism
The town government of Fujikawaguchiko, Yamanashi Prefecture, decided to set up a 2.5-meter-high screen to prevent tourists from taking pictures of Mount Fuji looming behind a convenience store.

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