Ex-envoy says papers on Japan-U.S. secret pacts possibly dumped

TOKYO, Japan - Kazuhiko Togo, the former chief of the Foreign Ministry's treaties bureau, talks to reporters in Tokyo on March 19, 2010, after speaking about so-called Japan-U.S. secret pacts as an unsworn witness during a session of the House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee. Togo told the panel that key documents related to the secret pacts may have been discarded before an administrative information disclosure law took effect in 2001. (Kyodo)

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