Another leaked internal document has rocked the Cabinet of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, again suggesting that Defense Minister Tomomi Inada — contrary to previous public denials — had been informed Feb. 13 of an alleged data cover-up concerning Ground Self-Defense Force activity logs.
On Tuesday morning, TV broadcaster Fuji News Network reported that it had obtained a two-page memo hand-written by an anonymous senior Defense Ministry official.
The memo, an apparent record from a Feb. 13 meeting between Inada and officials of the ministry and the GSDF, suggests she had been notified of the existence of daily activity logs pertaining to SDF operations in South Sudan that were previously said to have been discarded.