Top defense bureaucrat likely sought troop data coverup: sources

Tetsuro Kuroe, vice minister of the Defense Ministry, leaves the ministry building in Tokyo on July 19, 2017. Kuroe, the ministry's top bureaucrat, decided to conceal the existence at the Ground Self-Defense Force of controversial logs detailing the daily activities of Japanese peacekeepers in South Sudan to maintain the ministry's position that the records had been discarded, government sources said the same day. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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