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Ex-education ministry official arrested over alleged bribe-taking

TOKYO, Japan - Tokyo Metropolitan Police agents show up at the education ministry on April 4 to search for incriminating evidence after Hiroshi Oshima, 59, former chief of the ministry's Facilities Planning and Administration Department, was arrested on suspicion of receiving bribes from a construction firm in return for favorable consideration on a facility improvement project for a national university.

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Ex-education minister Shimamura named as farm minister

TOKYO, Japan - Former education minister Yoshinobu Shimamura (file photo) is appointed as the new minister of agriculture, forestry and fisheries Sept. 27 in the reshuffle of the Cabinet of Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi.

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Ex-education minister Moriyama named justice minister

TOKYO, Japan - Former Education Minister Mayumi Moriyama arrives at the prime minister's official residence April 26 after being appointed new justice minister.

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Ex-education minister Shimamura named as farm minister

TOKYO, Japan - Former education minister Yoshinobu Shimamura (file photo) is appointed as the new minister of agriculture, forestry and fisheries Sept. 27 in the reshuffle of the Cabinet of Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi. (Kyodo)

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Ex-education ministry official arrested over alleged bribe-takin

TOKYO, Japan - Tokyo Metropolitan Police agents show up at the education ministry on April 4 to search for incriminating evidence after Hiroshi Oshima, 59, former chief of the ministry's Facilities Planning and Administration Department, was arrested on suspicion of receiving bribes from a construction firm in return for favorable consideration on a facility improvement project for a national university. (Kyodo)

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Oita ex-education officials, teacher receive suspended terms

OITA, Japan - Tetsuro Yano (R), a former Oita prefectural education board executive, and his wife Kaoru, a former vice principal of an elementary school in the prefecture, leave the Oita District Court in Oita on March 27 after the court sentenced them to suspended terms for taking bribes in connection with recruitment and promotion in the local education district. (Kyodo)

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Ex-education minister denies illegal political funds management

Hakubun Shimomura, executive acting secretary general of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party, attends a press conference in Tokyo on June 29, 2017. The former education minister denied a weekly magazine report that his support group illegally handled donations from a school operator at the heart of a favoritism scandal involving Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ex-education minister denies illegal political funds management

Hakubun Shimomura, executive acting secretary general of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party, attends a press conference in Tokyo on June 29, 2017. The former education minister denied a weekly magazine report that his support group illegally handled donations from a school operator at the heart of a favoritism scandal involving Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ex-education minister Kenji Kosaka dies at 70

Undated photo shows Kenji Kosaka, a former Japanese upper house lawmaker, who as education minister worked on the issue of damaged murals at a famed tumulus in Nara Prefecture. Kosaka died of cancer at a Tokyo hospital on Oct. 21, 2016 at the age of 70, the House of Councillors secretariat said. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ex-education minister Moriyama named justice minister

TOKYO, Japan - Former Education Minister Mayumi Moriyama arrives at the prime minister's official residence April 26 after being appointed new justice minister.