The head of Senyou Academy in Japan threw a "blockbuster": he received a donation letter from the Prime Minister’s wife.
Beijing, March 24 (Xinhua) According to Voice of China’s Global Chinese Broadcasting Network, the support rate dropped by 10 percentage points within one month. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is facing the biggest political crisis since he took office, and with the protagonist of the right-wing kindergarten scandal, the chairman of Senyou Academy, Cage Chi Taidian, kept breaking the news. Will Abe face a bigger crisis again?
Yesterday, Taidian Koichi was summoned to the Japanese parliament to testify, which was the first time that the Japanese parliament summoned a witness after five years. On the morning of his appearance, Cage Pool "thanked" Abe and his wife. "As an educator, I have been understood by Prime Minister Abe, Mrs. Zhaohui, Osaka Prefecture Council and many other people, and I am deeply grateful." But then, Cage Pool kept throwing out "blockbuster". Regarding the "Donation Gate" incident, Cage Pool said that Abe’s wife, Zhao Hui, had opened a friend and handed him an envelope containing one million yen. "Mrs. Zhao Hui said, please accept it, this is Abe’s donation, and she handed me an envelope containing one million yen bills. Mrs. Zhao Hui seemed to say that she didn’t remember it at all.
In February of this year, Senyou Academy was blasted to obtain state-owned land from Toyotomi City, Osaka Prefecture at a price of 10% off the market price for the construction of "Mizuho Memorial Primary School".
Senyou Academy only bought a piece of state-owned land with an original price of more than 900 million yen for the price of 134 million yen to build a new primary school. Since Akihito Abe was also the honorary principal of the primary school at that time, the primary school once raised funds in the name of "Shinzo Abe Memorial Primary School". Therefore, public opinion and Japanese opposition parties believe that it is very likely that Abe exerted political influence in the process of buying land cheaply. In this regard, Cage Pool admitted at the hearing that Senyou Academy had asked Abe Zhaohui to take care of it when buying land.
At the hearing, Cage Pool said that after the scandal of low-cost land purchase was exposed, his wife and Abe Zhaohui kept exchanging emails, with 22 in February and 15 or 16 in March. In one of the emails, Akie Abe said, "Please don’t make people suspect that I have anything to do with this", which makes people understand that he is asking for "sealing". The cage pool is even more straightforward, which shows that there is political intervention in this matter.
What does cage pond’s testimony mean yesterday? Yang Xiyu, a researcher at the China Institute of International Studies, believes that although it is not a "blockbuster", this testimony does cut a hole in the shady story woven by Abe and his wife. "No matter whether Abe was questioned again after Cage Pool testified, or Mrs. Abe’s testimony was denied. For example, Cage Pool said that Mrs. Abe had donated 1 million yen to the school in the name of Prime Minister Abe, and Mrs. Abe said that she did not remember. But the testimony of Cage Pool said that it was a great honor for the school, and I remember it clearly. This is tantamount to debunking Mrs. Abe’s lies. She didn’t completely deny it, but said that she didn’t remember it. Now Japan, whether it is Congress or public opinion or the media, just hopes to start with this tear and conduct an in-depth investigation. "
When testifying in the cage pool, voices such as "unimaginable" and "so deep a connection" were uttered from time to time. Both the opposition party and Japanese public opinion demanded to continue the investigation. Lian Fang, the representative of Democratic Progressive Party, the largest opposition party, also asked the Prime Minister’s wife to testify in Congress. Jin Shengsheng, a professor at Keio University, said on social media that it can be seen from the testimony of Cage Pool that Mrs. Abe and Mrs. Tomomi Inada have a deep relationship with Mrs. Cage Pool, so it is necessary to summon Mrs. Abe and the staff of relevant ministries and agencies to testify in Congress, and relevant documents should also be made public.
On the same day, Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Suga Yoshihide denied Cage Chi’s testimony at a press conference, saying that "as far as I know, the Prime Minister did not make any donation, and Mrs. Akie did not make any donation in her own name".
It is understood that Shinzo Abe will attend the National Assembly’s question about Senyou Academy today. A month ago, Abe vowed that he was not involved in this matter. "If my wife and I get involved, I will resign as prime minister and member of parliament."
With the evidence that the cage pool is constantly exposed, Abe’s support rate has dropped significantly in recent days. According to a poll released by the Yomiuri Shimbun on the 13th, the support rate of Abe’s cabinet was 56%, down 10 percentage points from 66% in February. What does the falling support rate mean for the Japanese people? Yang Xiyu analyzed, "The survey of an institution dropped by 10%. The incident itself is not a subversive decline. Even after the decline, his support rate is still over half, indicating that this scandal has a certain impact on Japanese public opinion, whether from a political or economic perspective. The main factor of the decline in support rate is that the Prime Minister is unclean, economically unclean or using his political power to seek economic benefits for his favorite academy. As for politics, there are indeed some Japanese people who think that it is very bad for him to use his own power to support the education of the same ideology. This part of the factor is not the mainstream in the decline of the overall support rate. I am afraid that using public power for personal gain is a blow to the Abe regime. "
Some Japanese media believe that the Senyou incident may prompt Abe to make a decision to dissolve Congress in advance and re-elect in April this year. Yang Xiyu believes that this possibility cannot be ruled out. "Abe is betting on his political life with high support rate and his own political destiny. If he and his wife have any connection in it, he will resign. Such a bet suddenly raised the scandal to the level of Japanese political situation. The "land price gate" and "donation gate" themselves have now become an issue that affects the Japanese political situation and the political life of the Japanese prime minister. What direction to develop next is really important to the Japanese political situation. If the testimony of Cage Pool makes his so-called ‘ Unrelated ’ When the lie is untenable, Abe will inevitably face two choices: fulfilling his promise and resigning; Congress forced to resign and re-elect. "