Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Monday sought to deny allegations that he is linked to an Osaka-based ultranationalist kindergarten as the public outcry over the operator and its alleged efforts to indoctrinate children with xenophobia and pre-war militarism grows.
At the center of the controversy is Tsukamoto Kindergarten, a private school that recently came under fire for distributing letters to parents that accused Korean residents and Chinese of ¡°possessing wicked thoughts.¡±
It has also emerged that the principal, Yasunori Kagoike, had briefly used Abe¡¯s name in the past to raise funds to build Mizuho no Kuni, an elementary school slated to open April this year.
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