New Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera vowed Thursday to restore public trust in his ministry following a data coverup scandal and said one of his main tasks is to review Japan's defense program guidelines last made in 2013 amid the growing North Korean missile threat. "We ...
At her resignation ceremony, Tomomi Inada calls for an “open” Defense Ministry and Self-Defense Forces but does not apologize for the cover-up scandal that brought her down.
The Cabinet of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is in crisis, stung by scandals that have bitten into his public approval ratings in recent weeks. At a glance, these scandals look like separate events with little connecting them. But experts say they have one grave problem ...
Outgoing defense chief Tomomi Inada never seemed to understand the job, and her mentor’s rush to expedite her career may have left her out of her league, critics say.
Beleaguered Defense Minister Tomomi Inada announced Friday that she will resign over allegations that a cover-up was conducted to hide the politically sensitive activity logs of the Ground Self-Defense Force unit that was deployed for peacekeeping duty in conflict-riven South Sudan. Inada's resignation will deliver ...
Inada is taking responsibility for the confusion surrounding the GSDF activity logs scandal, making her the fourth minister to step down in the current Cabinet.
Defense Minister Tomomi Inada shrugged off Wednesday a news report on ministry notes suggesting her involvement in an alleged coverup of controversial logs that listed the daily activity of Japanese troops serving as peacekeepers in South Sudan. Inada has denied a role in the suspected ...
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 ...
After losing World War II, Japan decided to pursue pacifism under a war-renouncing Constitution, and its scientists vowed to avoid military research in repentance for cooperating with the military. But this long-held position is being complicated by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's policy of luring universities ...
The Defense Ministry has not yet produced a report on the alleged mishandling of daily activity logs written by Ground Self-Defense Force troops during their peacekeeping mission in South Sudan.
The Defense Ministry is considering strengthening its unit tasked with responding to cyberattacks by increasing the number of staff to around 1,000 from the current 110 and setting up a new group to study cyberattack techniques, a government source said Sunday. The measures, to be ...
Japan and the United States have postponed security talks involving their foreign and defense chiefs planned for mid-July because U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson will not be available around that time, according to a Japanese source. The postponement of the "two-plus-two" talks comes as ...
