Defense Minister Tomomi Inada has officially confirmed that digital copies of the Ground Self-Defense Force's daily activity logs from South Sudan last year exist.
The GSDF contingent is part of the U.N. peacekeeping mission in war-torn South Sudan. The Defense Ministry has been under fire since admitting it "found" some of the activity logs from last summer after previously stating they had been "entirely discarded."
The logs could lead to the GSDF's withdrawal if they describe the deadly situation last July as "fighting." That would violate Japan's conditions for deploying the troops, which state that a cease-fire must be in place.