No records of what Abe said at meetings before school closures

Government records give no indication of what Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and other top leaders said at meetings leading up to the decision to close schools nationwide to prevent COVID-19 infections. On the request of Renho, an Upper House member of the opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, the government released summaries of a coordination council’s meetings on measures to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus. The meetings, attended by Abe, relevant Cabinet...