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213凡人:2018/03/13(火) 03:45:53 ID:HC7cQp4.0
1年前の記事。安倍政権が早く実現を目指している憲法改正の「本当」の意図、本音が分かって面白い。天皇主権、戦前教育の強化、民主主義を廃止、日本国を戦前に復帰すること。現行の民主憲法をいま反古にすれば、権力が我がもの顔の天皇主権の過去に戻る舞台ができる。そこで一番助かるのは安倍自身。彼の権力を利用した違法行為の数々がいとも簡単に、愛国心の大義名分によってに葬ることができる、戦前のように。
School For Scandal
Japan’s Shinzo Abe Could Be Brought Down by Kindergarten Corruption
A scandal involving the prime minister, his wife, the Shinto cult Nippon Kaigi, and an elementary school in Japan may teach Shinzo Abe, at last, the need for humility.
03.31.17 1:00 AM ET Jake Adelstein/Mari Yamamoto/The Daily Beast

TOKYO, Japan―A right-wing elementary school, espousing the nationalist philosophy of the Shinto cult and lobby Nippon Kaigi and supported by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his wife, Akie, was supposed to have a glorious opening a few days from now.

But in an unexpected turn of events, the school, which was to be named after Shinzo Abe, may result in his political funeral.

What started as a small scandal only reported locally has in a very short tim, turned into a colossal headache for everyone involved.

Here’s how it happened.

A private school operator, Moritomo Gakuen, has run Tsukamoto Kindergarten in Osaka since 1950; the school currently teaches its children “an alternative history” of World War II, promotes Emperor worship, extreme patriotism and pre-war education.

Abe and his wife expressed support for the school.

For years, the head of the school, Yasunori Kagoike, had wanted to open a large elementary school in the area but couldn’t find a good deal on land―even as he raised funds in the interim.

The school ostensibly was to be named “Abe Shinzo Memorial Elementary” and, starting in March 2014, Moritomo Gakuen briefly collected donations under that school name. Akie, Abe’s wife, even agreed to be the honorary principal, but at some point in time asked for the school to be opened with a different name.

On February 9, the Asahi Shimbun, Japan’s second largest newspaper, with a relationship to Prime Minister Abe rather like the not-so-friendly relations President Donald Trump and the New York Times, revealed that the school had obtained the land from the Japanese government under dubious circumstances.

It then became clear that the school had bought the land, valued at over $8 million, for almost a tenth of its real value.

By any account, that’s quite a steep discount―even if the property had been devalued because of trash on the premises (as Mr. Kagoike claims).

It’s not clear how the Ministry of Finance, which was in charge of the land, determined the depth of the discount, because critical records have gone missing or been deliberately discarded.

What we do know is that the 8,770 square meters of land located in Noda-cho Toyonaka City Osaka was valued at 965 million yen ($8.7 million) by a real estate appraiser. However, according to Asahi Shimbun’s article on February 9, Moritomo Gakuen bought the land in June of 2016 for 134 million yen ($1.2 million), a fraction of the appropriate price.

As the school owner’s ties to the Abe administration have come to light, they have generated a lot of speculation that the prime minister or members of the Abe cabinet intervened on behalf of the school in order to seal the deal. It has also focused attention on the imperialist educational curriculum of the school, which Abe supports, and the racist comments of its administrators.

Those are rather more problematic. Even if the school scandal does fade away, the question will remain―should a prime minister who supports a school promoting racism really be the front man bidding for the 2020 Olympics to be held in Japan?

That is no small thing. A country might fail in its bid for such a distinction for many reasons. But to fail on account of racism? That’s not acceptable.
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