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Buzzword from cronyism scandal spawns hit bean paste bun

Minoru Inamoto, president of Heso Production, holds a box of "Sontaku Manju" buns in Osaka, western Japan, on Nov. 29, 2017. The bun takes its name from a buzzword associated with the cronyism allegations leveled at Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. ==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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Veterinary school in Abe cronyism scandal gets panel OK to open

Japanese education minister Yoshimasa Hayashi speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on Nov. 10, 2017. A ministry panel the same day approved the opening of a new veterinary school at the center of a cronyism scandal involving Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Veterinary school in Abe cronyism scandal gets panel OK to open

Photo taken Oct. 26, 2017, shows the campus building under construction in Imabari, western Japan for the veterinary department of the Okayama University of Science. An education ministry panel on Nov. 10 approved the opening of the veterinary school that has been at the center of a cronyism scandal involving Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Veterinary school in Abe cronyism scandal gets panel OK to open

Japanese education minister Yoshimasa Hayashi speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on Nov. 10, 2017. A ministry panel the same day approved the opening of a new veterinary school at the center of a cronyism scandal involving Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese Prime Minister Abe reshuffles Cabinet

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (C in front) and his new Cabinet ministers pose for group photos at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Aug. 3, 2017. Abe reshuffled his Cabinet earlier in the day in an attempt to regain public support hurt by a series of scandals including a cronyism allegation against him. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese Prime Minister Abe reshuffles Cabinet

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (2nd from L in front) talks with Finance Minister Taro Aso at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Aug. 3, 2017, as he and his new Cabinet ministers pose for group photos. Abe reshuffled his Cabinet earlier in the day in an attempt to regain public support hurt by a series of scandals including a cronyism allegation against him. (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

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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Scandal-hit school operator Kake

Kotaro Kake, head of Kake Educational Institution and a longtime friend of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, holds a press conference in Okayama, Japan, on June 19, 2018, over a cronyism allegation involving the pair. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Scandal-hit school operator Kake

Kotaro Kake, head of Kake Educational Institution and a longtime friend of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, holds a press conference in Okayama, Japan, on June 19, 2018, over a cronyism allegation involving the pair. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Scandal-hit school operator Kake

Kotaro Kake (R), head of Kake Educational Institution and a longtime friend of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, bows in apology during a press conference in Okayama, Japan, on June 19, 2018, in connection with a cronyism allegation involving the pair. Seen on the left is Yasunobu Yanagisawa, president of Okayama University of Science operated by the institution. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Scandal-hit school operator Kake

Kotaro Kake, head of Kake Educational Institution and a longtime friend of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, holds a press conference in Okayama, Japan, on June 19, 2018, over a cronyism allegation involving the pair. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Abe ex-aide Tadao Yanase

Tadao Yanase (L), a former secretary to Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, speaks during a parliamentary session on May 10, 2018, about a school project at the center of cronyism allegations against the premier. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Abe ex-aide Tadao Yanase

Tadao Yanase, a former secretary to Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, speaks during a parliamentary session on May 10, 2018, about a school project at the center of cronyism allegations against the premier. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Abe aide to testify in Diet on Thurs. over cronyism scandal

Tadao Yanase, a former aide to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, meets the press in Tokyo on May 7, 2018. He will appear in the Diet on May 10 to testify about a veterinary school favoritism allegation leveled at the premier. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Key ex-bureaucrat in Japan document scandal to testify in Diet

The House of Councillors budget committee decides in Tokyo on March 20, 2018, that former Finance Ministry bureaucrat Nobuhisa Sagawa will give sworn testimony in the Diet on March 27 over the falsification of government documents linked to cronyism allegations against Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Key ex-bureaucrat in Japan document scandal to testify in Diet

The House of Councillors budget committee decides in Tokyo on March 20, 2018, that former Finance Ministry bureaucrat Nobuhisa Sagawa will give sworn testimony in the Diet on March 27 over the falsification of government documents linked to cronyism allegations against Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Protest demanding Abe's resignation

People gather around parliamentary buildings in Tokyo on March 19, 2018, to call for Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's resignation over an alleged cronyism coverup. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Protest demanding Abe's resignation

People gather around parliamentary buildings in Tokyo on March 19, 2018, to call for Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's resignation over an alleged cronyism coverup. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Protest demanding resignation of Abe's Cabinet

People gather in front of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's office in Tokyo on March 16, 2018, calling on his Cabinet to resign over an alleged cronyism coverup. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Protest demanding resignation of Abe's Cabinet

People gather in front of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's office in Tokyo on March 16, 2018, calling on his Cabinet to resign over an alleged cronyism coverup. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Protest demanding resignation of Abe's Cabinet

People gather in front of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's office in Tokyo on March 16, 2018, calling on his Cabinet to resign over an alleged cronyism coverup. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Protest demanding resignation of Abe's Cabinet

People gather in front of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's office in Tokyo on March 16, 2018, calling on his Cabinet to resign over an alleged cronyism coverup. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Protest demanding resignation of Abe's Cabinet

People gather in front of parliamentary buildings in Tokyo on March 15, 2018, calling on Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's Cabinet to resign en masse over an alleged cronyism coverup. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Protest demanding resignation of Abe's Cabinet

People gather in front of parliamentary buildings in Tokyo on March 15, 2018, calling on Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's Cabinet to resign en masse over an alleged cronyism coverup. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Protest demanding resignation of Abe's Cabinet

People gather in front of parliamentary buildings in Tokyo on March 15, 2018, calling on Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's Cabinet to resign en masse over an alleged cronyism coverup. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Protest demanding Abe's resignation over cronyism scandal

People gather in front of parliamentary buildings in Tokyo on March 14, 2018, calling for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's resignation over an alleged cronyism coverup. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Protest demanding Abe's resignation over cronyism scandal

People gather in front of parliamentary buildings in Tokyo on March 14, 2018, calling for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's resignation over an alleged cronyism coverup. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Protest demanding Abe's resignation over cronyism scandal

People gather in front of parliamentary buildings in Tokyo on March 13, 2018, calling for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's resignation over an alleged cronyism coverup. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Protest demanding Abe's resignation over cronyism scandal

People gather in front of parliamentary buildings in Tokyo on March 13, 2018, calling for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's resignation over an alleged cronyism coverup. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Protest demanding Abe's resignation over cronyism scandal

People gather in front of parliamentary buildings in Tokyo on March 13, 2018, calling for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's resignation over an alleged cronyism coverup. (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 Prime Minister Shinzo Abe

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Finance Minister Taro Aso are pictured before a cabinet meeting in Tokyo on March 13, 2018. Both are facing calls to resign over a suspected cronyism coverup. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Cronyism scandal in Japan

Japanese Finance Minister Taro Aso speaks to reporters after the alteration of documents over a discounted state land sale was confirmed in Tokyo on March 12, 2018. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Cronyism scandal in Japan

Japanese Finance Minister Taro Aso (center R) speaks to reporters in Tokyo on March 12, 2018. Aso said that documents over a discounted state land sale at the center of cronyism allegations against Prime Minister Shinzo Abe were altered at the instruction of some officials in the ministry's Financial Bureau in charge of overseeing the land sale. (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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Protest demanding Abe's resignation over cronyism scandal

Over 1,000 people gather in front of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's office in Tokyo on March 12, 2018, calling for his resignation and that of close ally Finance Minister Taro Aso over a suspected cronyism coverup. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Protest demanding Abe's resignation over cronyism scandal

Over 1,000 people gather in front of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's office in Tokyo on March 12, 2018, calling for his resignation and that of close ally Finance Minister Taro Aso over a suspected cronyism coverup. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Protest demanding Abe's resignation over cronyism scandal

Over 1,000 people gather in front of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's office in Tokyo on March 12, 2018, calling for his resignation and that of close ally Finance Minister Taro Aso over a suspected cronyism coverup. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan's business lobby chief on cronyism scandal

Sadayuki Sakakibara, chairman of the Japan Business Federation, speaking at a press conference in Tokyo, urges the government on March 12, 2018, to thoroughly investigate the cronyism allegation leveled at Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese Prime Minister Abe reshuffles Cabinet

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (C in front) and his new Cabinet ministers pose for group photos at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Aug. 3, 2017. Abe reshuffled his Cabinet earlier in the day in an attempt to regain public support hurt by a series of scandals including a cronyism allegation against him. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo