Japan’s military watching citizens
Japan’s military watched citizens
Yahoo! News (Reuters) -Wed Jun 6, 4:40 AM ET, TOKYO – Japan’s military illegally gathered information on the activities of ordinary citizens in 2003 and 2004, including those who opposed the dispatch of Japanese troops to Iraq, Japan’s Communist Party said on Wednesday. The charges could prove a new headache for Japan’s military, which has come under fire for leaked classified information on a missile defense system…
.. Kazuo Shii told a news conference he had obtained copies of internal documents from a division of the Ground Self-defense Force — Japan’s army in all but name — recording surveillance activities carried out on ordinary citizens as well as journalists, photographers and artists…more…
The Kenpei rides again!
Back in the good old days of WWII, the Japanese Kenpei military police version of the gestapo used to spy on Japanese citizens all the time—tens of thousands were questioned, that is tortured, and then vanished.
The Kenpei were so hated that after WWII, Japanese laws banned all military police interactions with Japanese citizens. Despite the source, the Japan’s Communist Party (which isn’t even communist anymore), the charges seem creditable. It will be fun to see how this plays out since the Japanese military has been have huge leaks of information almost every month because Japanese military networks full of zombie computers from illegal downloading from Japan’s favorite P-2-P software called “Winny” (which is severely compromised).
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