Government secrets will be kept to a minimum and disclosed as quickly as possible, the Abe administration vowed Thursday in an outline of new rules for designating and disclosing “special secrets” under the controversial secrecy law.
The law caused a public uproar amid fears that it will undermine the public’s right to know in a nation where the press is controlled by a “kisha club” system and disclosure is already hard to come by.
Under the proposed rules, the administration will set up a system that can impose strict checks on how the law will be applied, but critics believe it will be ineffective as the mechanism will remain under government control and lack independent oversight.
Under the secrecy law, civil servants, journalists and others who leak sensitive information on foreign policy, defense, counterterrorism and counterespionage, will face up to 10 years in prison. Those who instigate leaks will face a maximum term of five years.
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A Tokyo systems engineer was arrested Thursday on suspicion of illegal copying for allegedly stealing data on millions of customers from the computer servers of education service provider Benesse Corp.
The Metropolitan Police Department arrested Masaomi Matsuzaki, 39, on suspicion of downloading and copying the personal data of some 10.19 million Benesse customers onto his smartphone from the Tokyo branch of affiliate Synform Co. on June 17.
The data included the names and addresses of children and their birth dates. Matsuzaki was employed as a temporary worker at a database management contractor for Synform at the time.
Earlier, during voluntary questioning, Matsuzaki admitted selling the data to about 15 name list traders for some ¥2.5 million from July 2013 to June, according to the police. He used the money on gambling, the sources said.
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The impending reactivation of reactors shut down following the 2011 nuclear crisis has raised a difficult question: Who will take responsibility for the decision?
On Wednesday, the Nuclear Regulation Authority effectively finished screening the two reactors at the Sendai plant in Kyushu, certifying they meet the new safety standards adopted after the Fukushima meltdowns.
Once they go online, likely in the fall, they will be the only reactors in operation in the nation.
NRA Chairman Shunichi Tanaka, however, is quick to point out that it’s not up to his commission to decide whether to restart any of the nation’s 48 commercial reactors.
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Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Tuesday his administration will consider creating a permanent law allowing dispatch of the Self-Defense Forces overseas, a comment that could lead to a further rift between the ruling Liberal Democratic Party and its junior coalition partner, New Komeito.
The move would allow the government to send the SDF on overseas missions by bypassing Diet debate and without having to re-enact special legislation each time.
“We’d like to consider in detail what form it should take, a permanent or special law. We need to have thorough consultations and coordinate with the ruling coalition,” Abe told the Upper House Budget Committee.
In a historic move, Abe’s Cabinet on July 1 reinterpreted the war-renouncing Constitution to allow Japan to exercise the long-prohibited right to collective self-defense.
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Two U.S. military KC-130 air refueling tankers arrived Tuesday at the U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni in Yamaguchi Prefecture in the first transfer under a bilateral agreement to reduce the burden on Okinawa of hosting U.S. bases.
The long-delayed transfer will bring a total of 15 KC-130s to Iwakuni by the end of August, along with approximately 870 U.S. military personnel and their family members, according to the Iwakuni air station. It is the first time U.S. units have been moved from Okinawa to another area in Japan.
The U.S. military has said it will fly the KC-130s based in Iwakuni to Okinawa to conduct exercises in coordination with U.S. Marines there as necessary, throwing into question how much the step will actually help reduce the burden of the military presence in Okinawa, home to the bulk of U.S. bases in Japan.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has vowed to cut Okinawa’s burden and pledged financial support, while ensuring a replacement facility will be built to relocate the Futenma base within the prefecture despite staunch local opposition to the move.
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The arrest of a Tokyo artist on obscenity charges for distributing data that allowed recipients to make 3-D prints of her vagina has sparked protests over what supporters say is an attack on free expression.
Megumi Igarashi, 42, who calls herself Rokudenashi-ko (“a no-good girl”), had been trying to raise funds online to pay for the construction of a kayak, using a 3-D printer, modeled on the shape of her genitals.
Japan has a vibrant pornography industry that caters to a vast array of tastes, but obscenity laws forbid the depiction of actual genitalia, which usually appear censored or blurred in images and videos.
The artist — who has created other genital-inspired artworks — was arrested Saturday for “distributing data that could create an obscene shape through a 3-D printer,” a police spokesman said.
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A man who has admitted involvement in the massive leaks of Benesse Corp. customers’ personal information has also told police that he sold the illegally obtained data to a name-list broker for millions of yen that he used for gambling, sources said Tuesday.
The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department is questioning the broker while checking the sold data against the original information stored on Benesse’s database.
The man has told authorities that he used the money for gambling, the sources said.
The Metropolitan Police Department plans to seek an arrest warrant for the man later this week on suspicion of illegal copying and disclosing business secrets.
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Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas, a Philippines-born immigration activist who has lived and in the U.S. illegally since he was a child, was released by U.S. Border Patrol agents on Tuesday after they detailed him at a Texas airport.
Border Patrol spokesman Omar Zamora said Vargas was stopped going through security at the airport in McAllen, just across from the Mexico border. A spokeswoman for Define American, Vargas’ advocacy group, confirmed his release Tuesday afternoon.
It is common for the Border Patrol to release people on their own recognizances, with notices to appear in court later. With such notices, people can generally travel throughout the U.S. without being detained again.
Vargas had been visiting the border city for several days as part of a vigil to highlight the plight of unaccompanied immigrant children coming into the U.S. illegally who have overwhelmed Border Patrol facilities.
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Despite growing criticism of the notoriously opaque criminal justice system, a Justice Ministry panel tasked with revamping it concluded three years of work Wednesday by deciding not to back mandatory recording of all criminal interrogations, while recommending that law enforcement be given a freer hand in pursuing controversial information-gathering tactics.
The panel’s conclusions appear to be at odds with its original vow to bring Japan’s criminal justice system “up to date” and roll back reliance on confessions as a means of securing prosecutions.
It proposed requiring recordings in only about 3 percent of all interrogations, such as those related to serious cases that will be deliberated by lay judges, such as murder and arson.
If enacted into law, the recommendations would nevertheless mark the first time in Japan that recordings of criminal interrogations have been made mandatory. Under the current system, recording interrogations is not obligatory and is conducted on a purely voluntary basis.
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With rockets raining deep inside Israel, the military pummeled Palestinian targets Wednesday across the Gaza Strip and threatened a broad ground offensive, while the first diplomatic efforts to end two days of heavy fighting got under way.
Egypt, which has mediated before between Israel and the Hamas militant group, said it spoke to all sides about ending the violence. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry was in touch with Israel to try to lower tensions. And the head of the United Nations warned of a “deteriorating situation . . . which could quickly get beyond anyone’s control.”
As the Palestinian death toll rose above 60, neither side showed any sign of halting their heaviest fighting since an eight-day battle in late 2012.
Israel said it hit more than 300 targets and Hamas positions throughout Gaza, including rocket-launchers, weapons-storage sites and tunnels that it said the group uses to carry out attacks. The military said 74 rockets landed inside Israel, including one that reached the northern city of Hadera, the deepest rocket strike ever fired from Gaza.
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The Tokyo Metropolitan Government will inspect stores suspected of selling quasi-legal narcotics as early as this week, officials said Wednesday, a day after the Cabinet pledged a crackdown on so-called “dappo” (law-evading) drugs.
The inspections of about 70 shops will be conducted jointly with the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry and the Metropolitan Police Department. If inspectors find dappo drugs, the metropolitan government will issue an order to remove them from view and from sale, the officials said.
As of Wednesday, the Tokyo government had identified 68 stores selling the drugs, which are usually a mix of dried herbs and synthetic stimulants whose chemical structure differs slightly from compounds prohibited by law.
Kaoru Noguchi, the head of the Tokyo health and safety division, said the number of vendors in Tokyo has remained constant for the past few years, despite efforts to monitor retailers — including those online.
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Benesse Holdings Inc., Japan’s largest provider of correspondence education for children, said Wednesday the personal information of up to about 20.7 million customers may have leaked from its group company, Benesse Corp.
Based on an in-house investigation, Benesse said it suspects an insider who is not an employee had leaked the information. Police are investigating the matter, it added.
The company, which is known for its Shinkenzemi correspondence courses for schoolchildren, said that to date it has confirmed the leak affects at least 7.6 million customers in its database, including names, genders and birth dates of children.
“We deeply apologize for causing great trouble,” Benesse Holdings Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Eiko Harada said at a press conference in Tokyo.
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