Jun 28 (Japan Times) - Osaka Mayor Hirofumi Yoshimura said Tuesday he has ordered a nursery school run by the wife of Yasunori Kagoike, the former chief of scandal-tainted school operator Moritomo Gakuen, to suspend its operations for six months beginning Saturday due to a shortage of teachers.
This is the first time for the Osaka Municipal Government to issue a business suspension order to a certified nursery school.
The municipal government plans to hear opinions from the nursery school this autumn and will check its business plans if it aims to resume operations.
Yoshimura told reporters that he may revoke the certification if the nursery school fails to secure a sufficient number of quality teachers.
Of the 36 children at the school, 31 have already been informally admitted to other nurseries.
The mayor reiterated that he plans to make a decision by the end of this month at the earliest on whether to sue the nursery school and a kindergarten run by Moritomo on charges of subsidy fraud.
Source: ANNnewsCH
