As Diet wraps up, Abe re-emerges as front-runner for LDP election
As recently as spring, the Abe administration was in disarray, weakened by what appeared to be an unstoppable flow of scandals and missteps.
Shinzo Abe's Kake Gakuen scandal refuses to lie down and die
Most people believe politicians lie, though the reflexive skepticism with which the current U.S. president’s pronouncements are met is probably exceptional. The secret to successful lying is to never admit to it in the slightest way. That rule of thumb has been challenged by a ...
Kotaro Kake denies meeting Abe to discuss school project amid cronyism claims
The head the school operator at the center of favoritism allegations denied meeting the prime minister regarding a project to open a veterinary school.
Lies and the lying bureaucrats who tell them
The current political situation characterized by the domination of the prime minister's office has ruined the pride of career bureaucrats.
Breaking down the Kake Gakuen scandal: Who's lying, Abe or his political opponents?
Opposition camp lawmakers roared in anger. Stenographers were ordered to stop transcribing. The prime minister accused an opposition leader of lying. This was the chaotic scene Monday at the Diet during an Upper House Budget Committee session. The scandal The issue in question was a familiar one: ...
Time for Abe to take the offensive on scandals
Where to draw a line of defense is an important decision for any administration. Abe seems to have done a poor job of it.
Kake Gakuen, one of two school entities at the center of favoritism allegations involving Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, denied Saturday that its head met with him in February 2015 as indicated by a recently disclosed document. But its latest denial clashes with yet another confirmation ...
Time to reform Japan's political parties
Lawmakers must place priority on national interests, not partisan politics.
Abe denies 2015 meeting with Kotaro Kake as opposition pressure mounts over cronyism claims
The prime minister again denied having met with his longtime confidant in February 2015, challenging an account revealed in a newly surfaced document.
Abe knew about Kake veterinary project two years earlier than stated: new Ehime document
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe apparently knew about Kake Gakuen’s veterinary project two years earlier than he says he did, a new document from the Ehime Prefectural Government shows.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Monday he has no problem with his former aide's 2015 meeting with officials from Kake Gakuen, the school chain run by his friend, and repeated that he never intervened in the government process for approving the rare veterinary project ...
Former Abe aide admits to meeting with Kake Gakuen officials
Last month Tadao Yanase flatly denied a report that he had met the officials in April 2015, “as far as my memory goes.”
