According to Maekawa, an education ministry advisory panel was currently assessing an application to open the new veterinary school and the ministry had prepared a document stating that the Cabinet Office said that Abe backs the plan.
The document also reportedly suggests that the education ministry was told by the Cabinet Office that the choice for the new department "was heard to have been the prime minister's wish."
The Democratic Party also maintains that the document in question shows that negotiations had taken place between the ministry and the Cabinet Office regarding the set timeframe for opening the new department at the university.
As for the timing for opening of the new department at Okayama University of Science, which was scheduled for April 2018, one document reportedly states, "This is what the highest level of the prime minister's office has said."
Another document mentioned that opening the department at an early juncture was "in line with the prime minister's wishes."
Okayama University of Science was specifically chosen by the government to open a new veterinary medicine school, for the first time in 50 years, in Ehime Prefecture.
The prefecture is one of Japan's national strategic special economic zones, which has far more relaxed regulations to boost growth in the area, as part of Abe's overall growth strategy.
Kake Educational Institution, chaired by Abe's close friend, was selected for the project in a meeting held between the central and local governments in the special strategic zone in Ehime in January, according to official accounts.
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