In the wake of several scandals, the government will launch a debate before month’s end on revising how administrative documents should be managed.
Lawyers poring over the activity logs that led to the defense minister's exit suspect that redactions point to illegal activities.
Tomomi Inada's resignation as defense minister ended a tenure that often made reporters wonder if her transgressions had more to do with ignorance than with incompetence. It would be wrong to associate her failures with her sex, though there were some in the media ...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has achieved much of his conservative security agenda since taking office in 2012, but unless he can revive his flagging popularity, his goal of revising the pacifist Constitution is likely to elude his grasp. Failure to achieve that goal by the ...
Announcement is widely seen as part of a desperate bid to shore up plummeting approval rate amid a spate of scandals.
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.
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.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is considering replacing beleaguered Defense Minister Tomomi Inada with one of her predecessors in the upcoming Cabinet reshuffle early next month, sources close to the government and ruling coalition said Wednesday. Inada faces mounting questions about her competency, including allegations she ...
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 ...
