Suga at press conference on scandal-hit school run by Abe's friend

At a press conference in Tokyo on May 30, 2017, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga brushes off a demand that an assistant to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe be summoned to parliament following news reports that he had repeatedly urged a former top education bureaucrat to accelerate preparations to allow a friend of Abe to open a new university department. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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