TOKYO: Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe Friday again rebuffed allegations that he made a donation to an educator at the center of an intensifying political scandal that has gripped the country.

Yasunori Kagoike, a controversial nationalist school operator, said under oath Thursday he had received a one million yen ($9,000) donation from Abe, handed to him, he claimed, by the premier's wife in 2015.

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