Police raid elementary school over teacher promotion scandal

OITA, Japan - Police remove documents after raiding an elementary school in Saiki, Oita Prefecture, on July 22. The vice principal of the school has told the police that he gave vouchers to an arrested senior education board official in return for a promotion.

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