Documents suggest Abe involved in deal for friend's school: opposition

Documents suggest Abe involved in deal for friend's school: opposition

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on May 17, 2017, shows the site where Kake Educational Institution is scheduled to build a new academic department of a private university, in Imabari, Ehime Prefecture, in western Japan. Documents have been found suggesting Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was involved in the government's decision to approve the subsidized construction of the veterinary medicine department of Okayama University of Science run by Kotaro Kake, a friend of Abe's, the main opposition party claimed the same day. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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