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COMMENTARY / Japan
Dec 16, 2019
Public records: Here today, gone tomorrow
Preserving the past is not just an academic exercise.
EDITORIALS
May 15, 2018
Improve public document system
Public documents that record the government's decision-making process are, as defined by the law on managing such documents, "people's common intellectual property that underpins the foundation of democracy." The law implemented in 2011 mandates that such documents be created and preserved so citizens...
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Apr 11, 2018
Faced with new evidence, Abe denies account of approval for Kake Gakuen vet school
Abe faces grilling from lawmakers after being confronted by a new document suggesting his involvement in a favoritism scandal.
EDITORIALS
Apr 10, 2018
The SDF Iraq mission activity log cover-up
The law to ensure against poor management of public documents is insufficient.
JAPAN / Politics
Apr 6, 2018
Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera announces a fresh set of SDF logs from Iraq have been found in growing scandal
Onodera pledged to further probe the ministry's careless handling of data and promised to announce the result as soon as possible.
JAPAN / Politics
Apr 5, 2018
Disclosure that GSDF hid discovery of Iraq logs reignites doubts over civilian control of Japan's armed forces
The ministry acknowledged the activity logs, from an Iraq mission, had been kept hidden from top officials for more than a year ,despite an earlier claim that they didn't exist.
EDITORIALS
Nov 19, 2017
New rules for managing official documents
Draft guidelines for managing official documents mark a step forward.
WORLD / Politics
Jan 11, 2017
Kremlin says it has no compromising dossier on Trump
The Kremlin said on Wednesday it was "total nonsense" that Russian officials had assembled a file of compromising information on U.S. President-elect Donald Trump.
JAPAN / Politics
Dec 22, 2016
Japan pays UNESCO dues after reforms soften ire over Nanjing Massacre documents
Japan has made its annual contribution to UNESCO after withholding the funds over the U.N. heritage body's decision to include "Documents of Nanjing Massacre" in its Memory of the World program, Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida said Thursday, citing UNESCO reforms as the reason for the change of heart....
Japan Times
WORLD
May 21, 2015
Documents seized in bin Laden raid aired, show plots against U.S., al-Qaida job application
The U.S. released a trove of documents seized when special forces stormed Osama bin Laden's hideout in Pakistan in 2011 that include references to unfulfilled plots such as an attack on the U.S. Embassy in Moscow.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Mar 9, 2015
Vatican receives ransom demand for stolen Michelangelo letters
The Vatican said on Sunday it had received a ransom demand for the return of two rare documents written by Renaissance master Michelangelo that were stolen from its archives nearly 20 years ago.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Oct 31, 2014
U.S. regulator orders Takata to release documents on its troubled air bags, testify under oath
U.S. auto safety regulators on Thursday ordered Japanese supplier Takata Corp. to provide documents and answer questions under oath related to the government's ongoing probe of potentially defective Takata air bags in millions of U.S. vehicles.

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