Olympics minister Toshiaki Endo, who formerly headed a shake-up of Japan¡¯s English education program, has admitted taking cash from the founder of a Tokyo teacher dispatch agency but said he did nothing wrong.
Speaking during a Lower House Budget Committee meeting, Endo dismissed as ¡°erroneous¡± an allegation leveled against him on Thursday by the daily Mainichi newspaper.
¡°The article is wrong and deeply regrettable,¡± he said.
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