Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Monday it was inappropriate that a kindergarten in Osaka run by a controversial school operator made children cheer for him during a sports event. “I have no intention whatsoever of making a kindergarten say [such a thing]. I think it is inappropriate,” Abe told a parliamentary session, referring to an incident at the event in Tsukamoto Kindergarten operated by Mo
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