Yamasaki Taku, chairman of the LDP’s Diplomatic Research Committee, remarked in a debate in Tokyo on 25th May [2008] that “people are saying that extending the Iraq Special Measures Law will be difficult, and I agree with them completely”. The Iraq Special Measures Law, originally passed under PM Koizumi, is the legal basis for Japan [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘SDF’
March 27, 2008
SDF Air Force Lieutenant to be Charged for Information Leak
The Asahi Shinbun reports today that a grade 1 Lieutenant at the Defence Ministry’s Information HQ is to be charged on suspicion of breaking the SDF Law (Disclosure of Defence Secrets) over an article published in the Yomiuri Newspaper in 2005 about a Chinese submarine drifting powerless in the South China sea after an accident.
March 21, 2008
Fukuda demands Defence Ministry and SDF Restructuring
The Asahi Shinbun reports today PM Fukuda’s comments to journalists this morning that, in the light of the string of recent scandals and blunders in which 88 people have been charged, “We have to reflect deeply on this. Incidents involving senior officials, leaks of sensitive information from the Defense Ministry, there are various problems here. To [...]
February 21, 2008
Missile Defense
Military affairs journalist Shunji Taoka (田岡俊次) reports in Sekai (世界) (March ‘08) that the Japanese government have already paid over ¥1000000000000 (一兆円) (approx.$9.25 billion) to the US for a limited and still-experimental Patriot Missile Defense system.
