Education minister Abe has said the chairman of the school corporation that runs Doshisha International High School did not give a sufficient explanation when he apologized last week over the death of a student in a boat accident off Okinawa Prefecture.
The girl, a student at the Kyoto Prefecture school, died after a boat capsized in the sea off Henoko in Nago, Okinawa Prefecture. The chairman of the corporation that operates the school apologized over the accident last week, the first time he had done so since it happened.
Abe told reporters the apology had not been accompanied by enough explanation. The source does not give the venue or the date of his remarks.
Families press for answers
The student's bereaved family has also called on the school to face the accident squarely. They asked it to think seriously about its accountability, in comments reported on October 31.
In his October 30 news conference, the chairman raised a problem with the neutrality of the school's education. The source does not elaborate on what he meant.