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Scandal-hit school Moritomo Gakuen in Osaka

Photo taken Nov. 22, 2017, shows a building on former state-owned land in Toyonaka, Osaka Prefecture. The premises were planned to be used for an elementary school operated by Moritomo Gakuen which has been at the center of favoritism allegations involving Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his wife Akie. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Scandal-hit school Moritomo Gakuen in Osaka

File photo taken Nov. 16, 2017, from a Kyodo News helicopter shows a building on former state-owned land in Toyonaka, Osaka Prefecture. The premises were planned to be used for an elementary school operated by Moritomo Gakuen which has been at the center of favoritism allegations involving Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his wife Akie. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Scandal-hit school Moritomo Gakuen in Osaka

File photo taken Nov. 16, 2017, from a Kyodo News helicopter shows a building on former state-owned land in Toyonaka, Osaka Prefecture. The premises were planned to be used for an elementary school operated by Moritomo Gakuen which has been at the center of favoritism allegations involving Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his wife Akie. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Scandal-hit school Moritomo Gakuen in Osaka

Photo taken Nov. 22, 2017, shows a building on former state-owned land in Toyonaka, Osaka Prefecture. The premises were planned to be used for an elementary school operated by Moritomo Gakuen which has been at the center of favoritism allegations involving Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his wife Akie. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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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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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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A row of Japanese cedar trees along the Nikko Road

Three highways lined with trees lead to Nikko: Onari (Nikko)-kaido, Reiheishi-kaido, and Aizunishi-kaido. The combined distance of the three highways is approximately 37km, and most of them are within the city of Imaichi near Nikko. This seems to be a view in the direction of Nikko from Imaichi or Mizunashi Village from the Moritomo Village side of Imaichi.==Date:unknown, Place:Nikko, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number92‐10‐0]

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A row of Japanese cedar trees along the Nikko Road

Three highways lined with trees lead to Nikko: Onari (Nikko)-kaido, Reiheishi-kaido, and Aizunishi-kaido. The combined distance of the three highways is approximately 37km, and most of them are within the city of Imaichi near Nikko. This seems to be a view in the direction of Nikko from Imaichi or Mizunashi Village from the Moritomo Village side of Imaichi.==Date:unknown, Place:Nikko, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number88‐15‐0]

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A row of Japanese cedar trees along the Nikko Road

Three highways lined with trees lead to Nikko: Onari (Nikko)-kaido, Reiheishi-kaido, and Aizunishi-kaido. The combined distance of the three highways is approximately 37km, and most of them are within the city of Imaichi near Nikko. This seems to be a view in the direction of Nikko from Imaichi or Mizunashi Village from the Moritomo Village side of Imaichi.==Date:unknown, Place:Imaichi, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number54‐8‐2]

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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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Japan land sale scandal hearing

Opposition lawmakers visit an elementary school in Toyonaka, Osaka Prefecture, on Jan. 17, 2019, that school operator Moritomo Gakuen planned to open. Opposition parties conducted hearings the same day to inspect the scandal involving a murky sale of state land to the school operator and falsifying documents related to cronyism allegations against Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan land sale scandal hearing

Opposition lawmakers visit an elementary school in Toyonaka, Osaka Prefecture, on Jan. 17, 2019, that school operator Moritomo Gakuen planned to open. Opposition parties conducted hearings the same day to inspect the scandal involving a murky sale of state land to the school operator and falsifying documents related to cronyism allegations against Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan land sale scandal

File photo taken on March 13, 2018, shows the site where school operator Moritomo Gakuen planned to open an elementary school in Toyonaka, Osaka Prefecture. A contractor involved in the sale of the land, at the center of a scandal engulfing Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, has said it falsified a report on buried waste at the government's request, leading to a huge reduction in the sale price, sources close to the matter said March 16, 2018. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan parliamentary talks without opposition parties

A public hearing of the House of Councillors Budget Committee is held in Tokyo on March 13, 2018, in the absence of opposition lawmakers who have called on Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Finance Minister Taro Aso to take responsibility for the controversial sale of state-owned land to school operator Moritomo Gakuen. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan parliamentary talks without opposition parties

A public hearing of the House of Councillors Budget Committee is held in Tokyo on March 13, 2018, in the absence of opposition lawmakers who have called on Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Finance Minister Taro Aso to take responsibility for the controversial sale of state-owned land to school operator Moritomo Gakuen. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Cronyism scandal in Japan

Photo taken March 13, 2018, from a Kyodo News helicopter shows state-owned land in Toyonaka, Osaka Prefecture, where Moritomo Gakuen had planned to open an elementary school. Cronyism allegations have been leveled at Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe over the heavily discounted sale of the land to the school operator. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese Finance Minister Taro Aso

Japanese Finance Minister Taro Aso is pictured speaking to reporters in Tokyo on March 13, 2018. Aso admitted a day earlier that his ministry had altered documents over a deal reached in 2016 for the hugely discounted sale of state land to Moritomo Gakuen, a school operator with ties to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's wife Akie. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese Finance Minister Taro Aso

Japanese Finance Minister Taro Aso is pictured speaking to reporters in Tokyo on March 13, 2018. Aso admitted a day earlier that his ministry had altered documents over a deal reached in 2016 for the hugely discounted sale of state land to Moritomo Gakuen, a school operator with ties to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's wife Akie. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese Finance Minister Taro Aso

Japanese Finance Minister Taro Aso is pictured speaking to reporters in Tokyo on March 13, 2018. Aso admitted a day earlier that his ministry had altered documents over a deal reached in 2016 for the hugely discounted sale of state land to Moritomo Gakuen, a school operator with ties to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's wife Akie. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Cronyism scandal in Japan

Photo taken March 12, 2018, shows a building on former state-owned land in Toyonaka, Osaka Prefecture. A scandal over the heavily discounted sale of the land to school operator Moritomo Gakuen has been at the center of favoritism allegations involving Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Cronyism scandal in Japan

Photo taken March 12, 2018, shows a building on former state-owned land in Toyonaka, Osaka Prefecture. A scandal over the heavily discounted sale of the land to school operator Moritomo Gakuen has been at the center of favoritism allegations involving Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Cronyism scandal in Japan

Photo taken March 12, 2018, shows a building on former state-owned land in Toyonaka, Osaka Prefecture. A scandal over the heavily discounted sale of the land to school operator Moritomo Gakuen has been at the center of favoritism allegations involving Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Land sale scandal in Japan

File photo taken in September 2017 shows a building on former state-owned land in Toyonaka, Osaka Prefecture. A scandal over the heavily discounted sale of the land to school operator Moritomo Gakuen has been at the center of favoritism allegations involving Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Opposition party chief criticizes Abe's decision to call snap election

Seiji Maehara, head of Japan's main opposition Democratic Party, speaks to reporters in Tokyo on Sept. 25, 2017. Maehara said Abe decided to dissolve the House of Representatives on Sept. 28 and hold a snap election to avoid facing a grilling from opposition parties over favoritism allegations involving private school operator Moritomo Gakuen and university operator Kake Educational Institution, both run by Abe associates. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Opposition party chief criticizes Abe's decision to call snap election

Seiji Maehara, head of Japan's main opposition Democratic Party, speaks to reporters in Tokyo on Sept. 25, 2017. Maehara said Abe decided to dissolve the House of Representatives on Sept. 28 and hold a snap election to avoid facing a grilling from opposition parties over favoritism allegations involving private school operator Moritomo Gakuen and university operator Kake Educational Institution, both run by Abe associates. (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