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DOCUMENTS

JAPAN
Jul 7, 2014
Supreme Court to support keeping Okinawa reversion documents secret
The Supreme Court is expected next week to uphold a lower court ruling endorsing the government's decision not to disclose diplomatic documents about the 1972 reversion of Okinawa from U.S. control, according to judicial sources.
JAPAN
Nov 17, 2013
Documents on Korean forced laborers turn up in old embassy
Documents on Korean laborers drafted during Japan's colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula turn up at South Korea's former embassy in Tokyo, promising to shed new light on the practice.
JAPAN / History
Mar 8, 2013
Ministry in '45 torched 8,000 secret files
The Foreign Ministry burned about 8,000 files of highly classified documents shortly before the nation's surrender on Aug. 15, 1945, according to Japanese diplomatic records declassified Thursday.

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