A former top education ministry bureaucrat told Diet committee sessions Monday that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's office had significant influence in the government's decision to approve a new department at a university run by his friend.Abe's aide was clearly involved in the approval process for the veterinary department at the Okayama University of Science in a government-designated special economic zone, said Kihei Maekawa, former vice minister of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology.
In his first appearance as an unsworn witness in the Diet, Maekawa said, "The…READ FULL ARTICLE
