April 4, 2017

"Two members of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's cabinet said separately on Tuesday that they support using the controversial prewar Imperial Rescript on Education as a teaching material, despite strong protests from opposition parties and the public.

Japan's top government spokesperson, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga told a press conference that the government should allow for the use of the rescript 'under careful consideration so that it does not violate the Constitution and the basic education law.'

Japan's education minister Hirokazu Matsuno said at a different press conference that he saw 'no problem in the Imperial Rescript on Education being used as a teaching material.'"

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