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TOKYO nike air max 90 white online , July 24 (Xinhua) -- Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Monday was given the third degree from opposition party lawmakers on his alleged involvement in an influence-peddling scandal.


He was accused to have used his influence to manipulate a government decision to benefit a close friend's opening of a veterinary school in a special deregulated zone.


Speaking in a special session of the House of Representatives Budget Committee, Abe maintained that there was no favoritism shown to his friend Kotaro Kake who runs Kake Educational Institution, which is set to open a new veterinary department at a private university in Ehime Prefecture, in Japan's northwestern Shikoku region.


In a bid to claw back some public support, Abe reversed an earlier party decision for him to not appear in parliament to be grilled by the opposition, as media polls have shown that the public's mistrust in Abe has risen exponentially recently as he has yet to properly account to himself over the favoritism scandal.


The prime minister nike air max 90 white wholesale , who will reshuffle his cabinet early next month in a further bid to restore public support, conceded that he had been friends with Kake since they were students and sometimes dined together and treated each other to nights out.


Abe maintained however that Kake had never asked for any favors based on Abe's position in politics and that he had not given any instructions personally on matters related to the veterinary department's opening.


Following an opposition lawmaker holding up an enlarged print of a photograph in parliament showing Abe and Kake holding up wine glasses while facing the camera, Abe said, "There is a saying that one should never allow room for doubts. Since this is a matter involving a friend of mine, it is understandable that the people would look at it with suspicion."


Abe, whose ruling party has suffered crushing defeats in recent elections nike air max 90 white black , including in the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly Election and, more recently, in Sunday's defeat to an opposition-backed former lawmaker who won the Sendai mayoral election, added later that his priority remained with the economy.


"The economy has been the administration's top priority and it's our job to create employment and raise wages," he said.


Abe will attend a similar session in the House of Councillors on Tuesday.


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○ A historical novel sympathizing with landlords during the CPC-led land reform is under attack


○ Some Maoists believe books like this risk undermining the legitimacy of the CPC


○ Open discussion of the agrarian revolution period is still regarded as taboo today


A farmer ploughs in a village in Guiyang nike air max 90 white mens , Southwest China's Guizhou Province, in February 2011. Photo: CFP


For many Chinese, "landlord" used to be a derogative term that's often associated with slavery, exploitation and decadence. The term is most associated with land reform in the 1950s, an important step in what Chairman Mao Zedong called "the New Democratic Revolution," which destroyed the landlord class nike air max 90 white womens , and with it the old feudal system that lasted for thousands of years.


For decades, that history was unquestionable, and landlords were stereotypically depicted as villains in Chinese movies and books. But some historians and descendants of the landlords have been trying to view that history from a more sympathetic, human-centered perspective.


But these attempts are never easy. A recent historic novel, Soft Burial, came under attack because it appears to sympathize with the landlords during the land reform in the 1950s. China's Maoists nike air max 90 white shoes , who have become increasingly active online, have relentlessly criticized the book.


Detractors of the novel believe that by sympathizing with the landlords, the novel is discrediting land reform, a major feat of the Communist Party of China (CPC), and therefore challenging the CPC. "Soft Burial is a downright anti-Communist Party novel," one article nike air max 90 white , written by a commentator called Chun Lin, asserts. "We have to be cautious about this novel, and criticize it thoroughly."


A woman shows a land certificate issued in 1952 after land reform in her village in Nanchong, Sichuan Province, in September 2002. Photo: CFP


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The novel, published by the People's Literature Publishing House last August nike air max 90 white online sale ireland , tells the story of a dying woman, by following her buried memories and her son's investigation of his family's past. The woman was the wife of a rich landlord's son in eastern Sichuan Province in the late 1940s, and she witnessed her husband's entire family, who feared an undignified death, committing suicide. That painful memory made her amnesiac, but still haunts her subconsciously throughout her life.


In an interview with the Xinhua News Agency nike air max 90 white black sale ireland , Fang Fang, author of the novel, said she was inspired by the true stories of her friend's mother. Much of the novel centers on China's land reform, which redistributed land to some 300 million peasants who had little or no land.


It was a period of time when landlords were the targets of class struggle campaigns. Many of the landlords and their families were brutally killed or tortured during the campaigns, even after their land was confiscated.


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