The Defense Agency reprimanded 42 senior Self-Defense Forces officers on Tuesday for the hiding of documents by uniformed SDF personnel around the time of a September raid on the agency.
The admonished officers included top commanders of Japan's air force and army -- General Yuji Hiraoka, Chief of Staff of the Air Self-Defense Force, and General Yuji Fujinawa, Chief of Staff of the Ground Self-Defense Force.
The reprimands come only a month after the agency took similar disciplinary actions against 31 officials, including its top bureaucrat.