The Democratic Party, the Japanese Communist Party, the Liberal Party and the Social Democratic Party have jointly said that Maekawa should be summoned to the Diet to give sworn testimony as a witness.
Maekawa had previously said that he would give testimony in parliament if summoned and double-down on his knowledge of the evidential documents.
But Abe's government has, thus far, managed to side-step the latest opposition-launched offensive, however, with the Liberal Democratic Party's Diet affairs Chief, Wataru Takeshita, telling his opposite number in the Democratic at the end of last week that an initial probe by the education ministry could not confirm the existence of the documents.
Based on this, he said it would be unnecessary to summon Maekawa as a witness despite his willingness to give sworn testimony.
The government's top spokesperson Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga, also told a press conference Friday that the documents being referred to were insubstantial and underscored the fact that the education ministry's probe into the matter had largely been concluded.
On Monday, in response to a question by opposition Democratic Party lawmaker, Yuichi Mayama, Abe kept up the government's line that the education ministry could not confirm the existence of the documents.
This, despite the fact that Maekawa is willing to swear they exist and has knowledge of their potentially incriminating contents.
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