ILEA000005860: Japanese MSDF officer held for selling secrets to Russia

Maritime Self-Defense Force submarine "Jingei"

KOBE, Japan, March 8 Kyodo - A ceremony to award a Self-Defense Forces flag to a Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force submarine is held at a shipyard of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. in Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture in western Japan on March 8, 2024. The submarine, "Jingei," will be deployed to the MSDF Yokosuka Base in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, near Tokyo. (Kyodo)

Japan's former prime minister Abe dies after being shot at stump speech

STORY: Japan's former prime minister Abe dies after being shot at stump speech DATELINE: July 8, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:49 LOCATION: Tokyo CATEGORY: POLITICS SHOTLIST: STANDUP(English): ZHANG XIAOYU, Xinhua correspondentvarious of people morning the death of former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe STORYLINE: STANDUP(English): ZHANG XIAOYU, Xinhua correspondent "Former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe was pronounced dead on Friday after being fatally shot while he was delivering a speech in the western prefecture of Nara." Abe, also former leader of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), was shot twice during a speech. He was shot from behind by a former worker from the Maritime Self-Defense Force (MSDF). He was later rushed to a hospital, and passed away there. The hospital said the cause of death was believed to be blood loss. The 41-year-old perpetrator was arrested at the scene for attempted murder and was quoted as telling police he intended to kill Abe as he was "dissatisfied" with the former

Suspicion raised over apparent inaction by destroyer before collision

YOKOSUKA, Japan - Japan Coast Guard officials prepare to go on board the Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyer Atago berthed at the MSDF Yokosuka Base, south of Tokyo, on Feb. 21 for investigations into the Feb. 18 collision between the Aegis advanced defense system-equipped vessel and the fishing boat Seitoku Maru in the Pacific just off the coast of Chiba Prefecture.

Defense chief Ishiba apologizes in missing fishermen's hometown

KATSUURA, Japan - Defense Minister Shigeru Ishiba (2nd from R) bows in apology to Eitaro Geki (L), head of a local fisheries cooperative in Katsuura, Chiba Prefecture, at the cooperative's offices there on Feb. 21. Two fishermen -- a father and son -- aboard the 7.3-ton tuna fishing boat Seitoku Maru belonging to the cooperative went missing Feb. 19 after the boat collided with the Maritime Self-Defense Force's Aegis-equipped destroyer Atago. (Pool photo)

SDF officers' homes, workplaces raided over defense data leak

TOKYO, Japan - Investigators leave an official apartment house of the Maritime Self-Defense Force in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, on Aug. 28 after searching the home of a 34-year-old MSDF lieutenant commander over a leak of classified materials on high-tech Aegis vessels. (Kyodo)

Police raid MSDF school over Aegis info leak

TOKYO, Japan - The Kanagawa prefectural police and the Maritime Self-Defense Force police search the MSDF's First Service School in Etajima (photo), Hiroshima Prefecture, on May 19 over an information leakage case involving highly confidential data on the Aegis defense system. (Kyodo)

Police agency official to become chief chamberlain to crown prince

TOKYO, Japan - Takashi Suetsuna (file photo), an official of the National Police Agency, will assume the post of chief chamberlain to Crown Prince Naruhito on Sept. 6, the Cabinet decided Aug. 26.

Ex-pro boxer on death row seeks retrial

TOKYO, Japan - File photo of Iwao Hakamada. Lawyers for the former pro boxer who has been on death row for 36 years for the 1966 murder of a four-member family in Shizuoka Prefecture, filed an appeal for a retrial with the Supreme Court Sept. 1, 2004, after the Tokyo High Court rejected his plea for a retrial on Aug. 27. The date of the photo is unknown. (Kyodo)

Mori urges SDF to tighten discipline after spy case+

TOKYO, Sept. 27 Kyodo - Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori (R), flanked by Defense Agency Director General Kazuo Torashima (L), receives a salute from the Self-Defense Forces (SDF) guards of honor at the Defense Agency headquarters in Tokyo on Sept. 27. Addressing a meeting of senior SDF officials later, Mori urged the SDF to strengthen discipline to recover public confidence following the arrest of a senior Maritime Self-Defense Force (MSDF) officer on suspicion of espionage.

Defense chief Torashima faces reporters over alleged espionage

TOKYO, Japan - Defense Agency chief Kazuo Torashima looks grim at a Sept. 8 news conference at the Diet in Tokyo where he explained the alleged passing of Japanese defense secrets to Russia by a senior officer in the Maritime Self-Defense Force (MSDF). The officer is accused of giving secrets to a Russian military attache in Tokyo on about 10 occasions. Torashima said the agency will set up a special team to investigate the case.

Japanese MSDF officer held for selling secrets to Russia

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