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. "I want to respect the panel's judgment," ...
At her resignation ceremony, Tomomi Inada calls for an “open” Defense Ministry and Self-Defense Forces but does not apologize for the cover-up scandal that brought her down.
Osaka Mayor Hirofumi Yoshimura said Tuesday he has ordered a nursery school run by the wife of Yasunori Kagoike, the former chief of scandal-tainted school operator Moritomo Gakuen, to suspend its operations for six months beginning Saturday due to a shortage of teachers. This is ...
Keisuke Koide, a popular actor with a clean-cut image, has been suspended by his talent agency after admitting to having sex with a minor, forcing major broadcasters to cancel a program starring him and remove him from the cast of an upcoming TV program. "It ...
Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga on Thursday steadfastly refused to reopen the investigation into leaked education ministry documents that suggest a school operator run by a close friend of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe benefited from government favoritism. Suga's stance signals that the government intends to ...
The Democratic Party pressured Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to quit on Thursday if allegations that he colluded with the Kake Educational Institution prove true. "It would be tantamount to Cabinet resignation en masse" if it is confirmed that Abe's influence motivated bureaucrats to make a ...
An opposition lawmaker says a document has been found suggesting the prime minister was involved in a government decision to approve the subsidized construction of a new university department run by a friend.
Vice Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry Toshinao Nakagawa, 46, has resigned from his position over an extramarital affair, a post on his Facebook account on Tuesday said. The government said it has appointed Masaki Ogushi, a 51-year-old House of Representatives lawmaker, to succeed Nakagawa. In ...
On March 14, Toshiba Corp. announced it will delay, for the second time, the release of its financial earnings for the third-quarter period until April 11, saying it needs more time for an audit of its accounting problems at U.S. nuclear unit Westinghouse, which ...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe rejected more calls from the opposition Monday for his wife, Akie, to testify before the Diet over whether she offered a ¥1 million donation to Osaka-based private school operator Moritomo Gakuen, saying it was unnecessary. "The issue of Moritomo Gakuen involves ...
Opposition parties stepped up calls Thursday for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's wife, Akie, to be summoned to testify in the Diet, after the head of a nationalist school operator reiterated under oath in the Diet earlier in the day that Akie Abe had handed ...
The head of Moritomo Gakuen tells the Diet in sworn testimony he got a ¥1 million donation from Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to fund his nationalist elementary school.
