Moritomo Gakuen
Native name | 学校法人森友学園 |
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Romanized name | Gakkō hōjin Moritomo Gakuen |
| Founded | August 25, 1952 |
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Moritomo Gakuen (学校法人森友学園, Gakkō hōjin Moritomo Gakuen) is a Japanese private school operator, most known for its involvement in a 2017 political scandal implicating former Prime Minister Shinzō Abe and his wife, Akie.
Moritomo Gakuen began as a kindergarten (preschool) operated by Yasunori Kagoike. Kagoike implemented a nationalist curriculum at the school which included daily recitations of the Imperial Rescript on Education, a practice employed at schools in the Empire of Japan from 1890 to 1945. Moritomo Gakuen is controversial about teaching anti-Korean education.