[1] Its president, Yasunori Kagoike [ja], was in the past the Osaka branch leader of Nippon Kaigi, an ultra-conservative political lobby group that includes Shinzō Abe and his wife in its membership as well as more than a dozen members of the Japanese Cabinet.

[3][4] It has been operating a kindergarten called Tsukamoto Yōchien since 1950, where children from three to five are required to sing the Kimigayo every day.

[1] A sport event of the kindergarten had pupils with arms raised recitate a text calling Shinzō Abe to do his best, calling Japan to not ″lose″ to other countries in territorial disputes, denouncing Korea and China for giving a bad image to Japan, calling for lies not to be taught in schoolbooks, and celebrating the 2015 Japanese military legislation.

[1] The school song was to be ″Aa, seishun no mune no chi wa″, theme of an eponymous 1964 movie by Kenjirō Morinaga [ja].

[1] An adjacent piece of land of similar size was sold at the same time for ¥1.423 billion, also by the government.