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CORRECTED: Ex-head of scandal-hit school operator to be questioned

Yasunori Kagoike (3rd from L), a former chief of the school operator Moritomo Gakuen, arrives at the Osaka District Public Prosecutors Office on July 27, 2017, to be questioned over allegations that the operator fraudulently received subsidies. The nationalist school operator is at the center of a land-deal controversy linked to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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CORRECTED: Ex-head of scandal-hit school operator to be questioned

Yasunori Kagoike, a former chief of the school operator Moritomo Gakuen, meets with reporters in Toyonaka, Osaka Prefecture, on July 27, 2017, before being questioned by prosecutors over allegations that the operator fraudulently received subsidies. The nationalist school operator is at the center of a land-deal controversy linked to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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CORRECTED: Ex-head of scandal-hit school operator to be questioned

Yasunori Kagoike, a former chief of the school operator Moritomo Gakuen, arrives at the Osaka District Public Prosecutors Office on July 27, 2017, to be questioned over allegations that the operator fraudulently received subsidies. The nationalist school operator is at the center of a land-deal controversy linked to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ex-head of scandal-hit school operator to be questioned

Yasunori Kagoike, a former chief of the school operator Moritomo Gakuen, leaves his home in Toyonaka, Osaka Prefecture, to be questioned by prosecutors on July 27, 2017, over allegations that he and his wife fraudulently received subsidies. The nationalist school operator is at the center of a land-deal controversy linked to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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CORRECTED: Ex-head of scandal-hit school operator to be questioned

Yasunori Kagoike, a former chief of the school operator Moritomo Gakuen, meets with reporters in Toyonaka, Osaka Prefecture, on July 27, 2017, before being questioned by prosecutors over allegations that the operator fraudulently received subsidies. The nationalist school operator is at the center of a land-deal controversy linked to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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CORRECTED: Ex-head of scandal-hit school operator to be questioned

Yasunori Kagoike, a former chief of the school operator Moritomo Gakuen, meets with reporters in Toyonaka, Osaka Prefecture, on July 27, 2017, before being questioned by prosecutors over allegations that the operator fraudulently received subsidies. The nationalist school operator is at the center of a land-deal controversy linked to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ex-head of scandal-hit school operator to be questioned

Yasunori Kagoike, a former chief of the school operator Moritomo Gakuen, meets with reporters in Toyonaka, Osaka Prefecture, on July 27, 2017, before being questioned by prosecutors over allegations that he and his wife fraudulently received subsidies. The nationalist school operator is at the center of a land-deal controversy linked to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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CORRECTED: Ex-head of scandal-hit school operator to be questioned

Yasunori Kagoike, a former chief of the school operator Moritomo Gakuen, leaves his home in Toyonaka, Osaka Prefecture, to be questioned by prosecutors on July 27, 2017, over allegations that the operator fraudulently received subsidies. The nationalist school operator is at the center of a land-deal controversy linked to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ex-head of scandal-hit school operator to be questioned

Yasunori Kagoike, a former chief of the school operator Moritomo Gakuen, meets with reporters in Toyonaka, Osaka Prefecture, on July 27, 2017, before being questioned by prosecutors over allegations that he and his wife fraudulently received subsidies. The nationalist school operator is at the center of a land-deal controversy linked to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ex-head of scandal-hit school operator to be questioned

Yasunori Kagoike, a former chief of the school operator Moritomo Gakuen, leaves his home in Toyonaka, Osaka Prefecture, to be questioned by prosecutors on July 27, 2017, over allegations that he and his wife fraudulently received subsidies. The nationalist school operator is at the center of a land-deal controversy linked to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Osaka assembly summons Kagoike over land-deal controversy linked to PM Abe

Yasunori Kagoike, former chief of the school operator Moritomo Gakuen, attends an Osaka prefectural assembly meeting in Osaka on July 10, 2017, to testify as an unsworn witness on a land-deal controversy linked to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Head of scandal-hit school operator gives testimony before Diet

Yasunori Kagoike, head of a nationalist Osaka school operator at the center of a growing political scandal connected to the prime minister and defense minister, attends an upper house panel in Tokyo on March 23, 2017, to give testimony as a sworn witness. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Scandal-hit school operator says he received donation from PM Abe

Yasunori Kagoike (far L), the head of Moritomo Gakuen, a school operator mired in controversy over its cut-price purchase of a plot of state-owned land, meets ruling and opposition lawmakers visiting the site in Toyonaka, Osaka Prefecture, on March 16, 2017. Kagoike told the lawmakers he received a donation from Prime Minister Shinzo Abe for the elementary school that was to open on the site. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Couple at center of Japan PM Abe cronyism scandal

Yasunori Kagoike (C), former chief of school operator Moritomo Gakuen, who is at the center of a cronyism scandal linked to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, heads to the Osaka District Court on Feb. 19, 2020. Kagoike and his wife Junko were found guilty of illegally receiving 56.4 million yen ($512,000) in central government subsidies for construction of an elementary school. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Couple at center of Japan PM Abe cronyism scandal

Yasunori Kagoike (R), former chief of school operator Moritomo Gakuen, and his wife Junko, who are at the center of a cronyism scandal linked to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, head to the Osaka District Court on Feb. 19, 2020. They were found guilty of illegally receiving 56.4 million yen ($512,000) in central government subsidies for construction of an elementary school. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan land sale scandal hearing

Yasunori Kagoike, former chief of school operator Moritomo Gakuen, speaks in Suita, Japan, on Jan. 17, 2019, at a hearing conducted by opposition parties to inspect the murky state land sale scandal involving the school operator with ties to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's wife Akie. Kagoike has been out on bail on unrelated charges, including fraudulently receiving public subsidies. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Couple at center of Japan PM Abe cronyism scandal

Yasunori Kagoike (2nd from L), former chief of school operator Moritomo Gakuen, and his wife Junko (L), who are at the center of a cronyism scandal linked to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, meet the media before heading to the Osaka District Court on Feb. 19, 2020. They were found guilty of illegally receiving 56.4 million yen ($512,000) in central government subsidies for construction of an elementary school. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Couple at center of Japan PM Abe cronyism scandal

Yasunori Kagoike (R), former chief of school operator Moritomo Gakuen, and his wife Junko, who are at the center of a cronyism scandal linked to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, meet the media before heading to the Osaka District Court on Feb. 19, 2020. They were found guilty of illegally receiving 56.4 million yen ($512,000) in central government subsidies for construction of an elementary school. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan land sale scandal hearing

Yasunori Kagoike, former chief of school operator Moritomo Gakuen, speaks in Suita, Japan, on Jan. 17, 2019, at a hearing conducted by opposition parties to inspect the murky state land sale scandal involving the school operator with ties to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's wife Akie. Kagoike has been out on bail on unrelated charges, including fraudulently receiving public subsidies. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan land sale scandal hearing

Yasunori Kagoike, former chief of school operator Moritomo Gakuen, speaks in Suita, Japan, on Jan. 17, 2019, at a hearing conducted by opposition parties to inspect the murky state land sale scandal involving the school operator with ties to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's wife Akie. Kagoike has been out on bail on unrelated charges, including fraudulently receiving public subsidies. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ex-head of Osaka school operator served with fresh warrant over fraud

Combination photo taken July 27, 2017, shows Yasunori Kagoike (L), former chief of scandal-hit school operator Moritomo Gakuen, and his wife Junko. Prosecutors served on Aug. 21 a new arrest warrant for subsidy fraud totaling more than 90 million yen ($826,000) against the couple over a discounted purchase of public land. (PHOTO NOT FOR SALE AFTER NOV. 21)(Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ex-head of Osaka school operator to face new arrest over fraud

Undated photo shows Yasunori Kagoike, the former head of Osaka-based school operator Moritomo Gakuen. Prosecutors plan to serve a fresh arrest warrant for subsidy fraud against Kagoike, who has been embroiled in the scandal over a discounted purchase of public land, sources close to the case said on Aug. 18, 2017. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ex-head of scandal-hit school operator arrested over subsidy fraud

Officials of the Osaka District Public Prosecutors Office carry seized articles from the home of Yasunori Kagoike and his wife Junko in Toyonaka, Osaka Prefecture, in the early hours of Aug. 1, 2017, following a search as part of an investigation. Kagoike, the former chief of scandal-hit school operator Moritomo Gakuen, and his wife were arrested the previous day on suspicion of illegal receipt of public subsidies. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ex-head of scandal-hit school operator arrested over subsidy fraud

Officials of the Osaka District Public Prosecutors Office carry seized articles from the home of Yasunori Kagoike and his wife Junko in Toyonaka, Osaka Prefecture, in the early hours of Aug. 1, 2017, following a search as part of an investigation. Kagoike, the former chief of scandal-hit school operator Moritomo Gakuen, and his wife were arrested the previous day on suspicion of illegal receipt of public subsidies. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ex-head of scandal-hit school operator, wife arrested

Yasunori Kagoike (R), former chief of scandal-hit school operator Moritomo Gakuen, arrives at the Osaka District Public Prosecutors Office on July 31, 2017. Kagoike and his wife Junko were arrested over the illegal receipt of public subsidies. Their arrests follow a controversial sale of public land that embroiled Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, whose wife Akie was named honorary principal of the school planned for the site. (PHOTO NOT FOR SALE AFTER OCT. 31)(Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ex-head of scandal-hit school operator, wife arrested

Yasunori Kagoike, former chief of scandal-hit school operator Moritomo Gakuen, and his wife Junko (R on back) leave their home in the western Japan city of Toyonaka on July 31, 2017. They were arrested by prosecutors later over the illegal receipt of public subsidies. Their arrests follow a controversial sale of public land that embroiled Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, whose wife Akie was named honorary principal of the school planned for the site. (PHOTO NOT FOR SALE AFTER OCT. 31)(Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ex-head of scandal-hit school operator, wife arrested

File photo taken in June 2017 shows Yasunori Kagoike (R), former chief of scandal-hit school operator Moritomo Gakuen, and his wife Junko meeting with reporters in the city of Osaka. They were arrested by prosecutors on July 31 over the illegal receipt of public subsidies. Their arrests follow a controversial sale of public land that embroiled Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, whose wife Akie was named honorary principal of the school planned for the site. (PHOTO NOT FOR SALE AFTER OCT. 31)(Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ex-head of scandal-hit school operator, wife arrested

Yasunori Kagoike, former chief of scandal-hit school operator Moritomo Gakuen, arrives at the Osaka District Public Prosecutors Office on July 31, 2017. Kagoike and his wife Junko were arrested over the illegal receipt of public subsidies. Their arrests follow a controversial sale of public land that embroiled Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, whose wife Akie was named honorary principal of the school planned for the site. (PHOTO NOT FOR SALE AFTER OCT. 31)(Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ex-head of scandal-hit school operator, wife arrested

Combination photo taken July 27, 2017, shows Yasunori Kagoike (L), former chief of scandal-hit school operator Moritomo Gakuen, and his wife Junko, who were arrested by prosecutors on July 31 over the illegal receipt of public subsidies. Their arrests followed a controversial sale of public land that embroiled Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, whose wife Akie was named honorary principal of the school planned for the site. (PHOTO NOT FOR SALE AFTER OCT. 31)(Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ex-chief of scandal-hit school operator summoned over subsidy fraud

Junko Kagoike, wife of Yasunori Kagoike, the former chief of school operator Moritomo Gakuen, returns home in Osaka on July 27, 2017, after being questioned by prosecutors over allegations that the operator fraudulently received subsidies. The nationalist school operator is at the center of a land deal controversy linked to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ex-chief of scandal-hit school operator summoned over subsidy fraud

Yasunori Kagoike, a former chief of the school operator Moritomo Gakuen, returns home in Osaka on July 27, 2017, after being questioned by prosecutors over allegations that the operator fraudulently received subsidies. The nationalist school operator is at the center of a land deal controversy linked to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ex-chief of scandal-hit school operator quizzed over subsidy fraud

Yasunori Kagoike, a former chief of the school operator Moritomo Gakuen, returns home in Osaka on July 27, 2017, after being questioned by prosecutors over allegations that the operator fraudulently received subsidies. The nationalist school operator is at the center of a land deal controversy linked to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ex-chief of scandal-hit school operator summoned over subsidy fraud

Junko Kagoike, wife of Yasunori Kagoike, the former chief of school operator Moritomo Gakuen, arrives at the Osaka District Public Prosecutors Office in Osaka on July 27, 2017, for questioning over allegations that the operator fraudulently received public subsidies. The nationalist school operator is at the center of a land-deal controversy linked to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Osaka assembly summons Kagoike over land-deal controversy linked to PM Abe

Yasunori Kagoike (C), former chief of the school operator Moritomo Gakuen, heads to an Osaka prefectural assembly meeting on July 10, 2017, to testify as an unsworn witness on a land-deal controversy linked to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Prosecutors search Moritomo Gakuen office over fraud allegations

Yasunori Kagoike, a former chief of a school operator at the center of a land-deal controversy linked to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, meets the press at his home in Toyonaka, Osaka Prefecture on June 20, 2017, after the prosecutors searched the home and the school office from the previous night until early morning on suspicion that Kagoike fraudulently or illegally obtained subsidies from the prefecture and state. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Prosecutors search Moritomo Gakuen office over fraud allegations

Yasunori Kagoike, a former chief of a school operator at the center of a land-deal controversy linked to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, meets the press at his home in Toyonaka, Osaka Prefecture on June 20, 2017, after the prosecutors searched the home and the school office from the previous night until early morning on suspicion that Kagoike fraudulently or illegally obtained subsidies from the prefecture and state. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Prosecutors search Moritomo Gakuen office over fraud allegations

Yasunori Kagoike, a former chief of a school operator at the center of a land-deal controversy linked to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, meets the press at his home in Toyonaka, Osaka Prefecture on June 20, 2017, after the prosecutors searched the home and the school office from the previous night until early morning on suspicion that Kagoike fraudulently or illegally obtained subsidies from the prefecture and state. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Chief of scandal-hit school repeats Abe donation claim under oath

Yasunori Kagoike (R), chief of school operator Moritomo Gakuen, speaks at a news conference at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan in Tokyo on March 23, 2017. Earlier in the day, Kagoike, the central figure in a growing political scandal connected to the prime minister and defense minister, reiterated during sworn testimony in parliament that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe had donated 1 million yen ($8,900) to the organization. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Chief of scandal-hit school repeats Abe donation claim under oath

Yasunori Kagoike, chief of school operator Moritomo Gakuen, speaks at a news conference at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan in Tokyo on March 23, 2017. Earlier in the day, Kagoike, the central figure in a growing political scandal connected to the prime minister and defense minister, reiterated during sworn testimony in parliament that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe had donated 1 million yen ($8,900) to the organization. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Chief of scandal-hit school repeats Abe donation claim under oath

Yasunori Kagoike, chief of school operator Moritomo Gakuen, smiles during a news conference at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan in Tokyo on March 23, 2017. Earlier in the day, Kagoike, the central figure in a growing political scandal connected to the prime minister and defense minister, reiterated during sworn testimony in parliament that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe had donated 1 million yen ($8,900) to the organization. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Chief of scandal-hit school repeats Abe donation claim under oath

Yasunori Kagoike, chief of school operator Moritomo Gakuen, holds up a faxed reply he said was from Saeko Tani, a government aide of Akie Abe, the wife of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, during his sworn testimony at the Budget Committee of the House of Representatives in the Diet in Tokyo on March 23, 2017. Kagoike, the central figure of a growing political scandal connected to the prime minister and defense minister, repeated his earlier claim that the prime minister donated 1 million yen ($8,900) to the organization. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Chief of scandal-hit school repeats Abe donation claim under oath

Yasunori Kagoike, chief of school operator Moritomo Gakuen, holds up a faxed reply he said was from Saeko Tani, a government aide of Akie Abe, the wife of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, during his sworn testimony at the Budget Committee of the House of Representatives in the Diet in Tokyo on March 23, 2017. Kagoike, the central figure of a growing political scandal connected to the prime minister and defense minister, repeated his earlier claim that the prime minister donated 1 million yen ($8,900) to the organization. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Chief of scandal-hit school repeats Abe donation claim under oath

Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga speaks at a regular press conference at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on March 23, 2017. Suga categorically denied a repeated allegation by Yasunori Kagoike, chief of school operator Moritomo Gakuen, that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe donated 1 million yen ($8,900) to the organization. Kagoike, the central figure of a growing political scandal, made the allegation as a sworn witness in the Diet earlier in the day. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Chief of scandal-hit school repeats Abe donation claim under oath

Yasunori Kagoike, chief of school operator Moritomo Gakuen, leaves the Diet building in Tokyo on March 23, 2017, after speaking as a sworn witness at the Budget Committees of the House of Representative and the House of Councillors, respectively. Kaogike, the central figure of a growing political scandal connected to the prime minister and defense minister, repeated his earlier claim that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe donated 1 million yen ($8,900) to the organization. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Chief of scandal-hit school repeats Abe donation claim under oath

Yasunori Kagoike, chief of school operator Moritomo Gakuen, speaks as a sworn witness during a session of the House of Representatives' Budget Committee at the Diet in Tokyo on March 23, 2017. Kaogike, the central figure of a growing political scandal connected to the prime minister and defense minister, repeated his earlier claim that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe donated 1 million yen ($8,900) to the organization. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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School operator head repeats Abe donation claim under oath

A large screen in central Osaka shows Yasunori Kagoike, head of a nationalist school operator at the center of a growing political scandal, giving testimony as a sworn witness at an upper house panel in Tokyo on March 23, 2017. Kagoike repeated his earlier claim that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe donated 1 million yen ($8,900) to the organization. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Head of scandal-hit school operator gives testimony before Diet

Yasunori Kagoike, head of a nationalist school operator at the center of a growing political scandal, affixes a seal to a written oath before giving testimony as a sworn witness at an upper house panel in Tokyo on March 23, 2017. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Head of scandal-hit school operator gives testimony before Diet

Photo shows an upper house chamber in Tokyo as Yasunori Kagoike, head of a nationalist Osaka school operator at the center of a growing political scandal, gives testimony as a sworn witness on March 23, 2017. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Head of scandal-hit school operator gives testimony before Diet

Photo shows an upper house chamber in Tokyo as Yasunori Kagoike, head of a nationalist Osaka school operator at the center of a growing political scandal, gives testimony as a sworn witness on March 23, 2017. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Head of scandal-hit school operator gives testimony before Diet

Yasunori Kagoike, head of a nationalist Osaka school operator at the center of a growing political scandal, arrives to testify at an upper house panel in Tokyo on March 23, 2017, as a sworn witness. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo