Inada could face grilling over alleged coverup of 'discarded' GSDF data
Defense Minister Tomomi Inada may be questioned over her alleged role in a suspected cover-up of the activity logs of Ground Self-Defense Force troops during a U.N. peacekeeping mission in South Sudan, the top government spokesman said Thursday. Inada was not supposed to be part ...
Inada faces flak over renewed claims of SDF-related cover-up
The Defense Ministry was hit again Wednesday by another apparent data cover-up scandal involving Defense Minister Tomomi Inada, prompting opposition lawmakers to further step up their calls for her immediate resignation. On Tuesday, it was reported that anonymous government sources had said that Inada attended ...
Experts question wisdom, achievements of SDF South Sudan peacekeeping mission
With the Ground Self-Defense Force troops in South Sudan scheduled to arrive back in Japan on May 27, experts have called for the government to thoroughly review Japan's peacekeeping mission there amid debate over whether it was in line with the nation's principle of ...
Japan to donate peacekeeping equipment, supplies used in South Sudan to U.N.
The government will donate heavy equipment and supplies used in peacekeeping activities in South Sudan to the United Nations, officials said Tuesday. The equipment procured for about ¥2.7 billion ($23.8 million) for Self-Defense Forces troops stationed in the war-torn African country includes bulldozers, hydraulic shovels, ...
First batch of GSDF troops arrive home as Japan withdraws from South Sudan mission
The first contingent of Ground Self-Defense Force troops returned home on Wednesday from South Sudan as Japan ended its five-year participation in a U.N. peacekeeping mission in the African country. A group of about 70 personnel from the 350-member unit arrived at a GSDF camp ...
Japan on Monday started withdrawing its troops from a U.N. mission in war battered South Sudan, according to an official, a move coinciding with escalating violence in a conflict where killings have been described as genocide. The 350-strong Japanese military contingent, which has been based ...
Abe will have a tough time getting bigger peacekeeping roles for Japan on U.N. missions
Fulfilling Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s pledge to make Japan a “proactive contributor to peace” may not be so easy.
South Sudan survivors who fled to Uganda recount slaughter at hands of troops
It started out as a normal Monday morning in Pajok in South Sudan — children walking to school, shopkeepers raising their shutters and hawkers laying out their wares in the market, where a shower had just dampened down the dust. Then, in the distance, came ...
Defense Minister Tomomi Inada on Friday ordered the Self-Defense Forces to begin their withdrawal from South Sudan, where they were deployed for five years as part of a U.N. peacekeeping mission. The fledgling African country gained independence from Sudan in 2011, and the Ground Self-Defense ...
Public trust in the Self-Defense Forces will be undermined if it turns out the SDF intentionally concealed its South Sudan peacekeeping records.
SDF peacekeepers involved in 50 road accidents in South Sudan: ministry
GSDF personnel participating in a U.N. peacekeeping mission in South Sudan have been involved in about 50 traffic accidents since the start of their deployment in January of 2012.
