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Japan special intelligence unit

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken Nov. 18, 2013, shows an entrance to the Ground Self-Defense Force Camp Kodaira in Kodaira, Tokyo. A former member of a special Ground Staff Office unit who enrolled in a psychological warfare and security course at the GSDF's Kodaira School, located inside the camp, recently told Kyodo News about intelligence activities long conducted without the knowledge of the prime minister or defense minister, including paying several million yen to collaborators and sending a spy to North Korea.

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GSDF spies

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken Nov. 27, 2013, shows the Defense Ministry in Tokyo. Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force spies have secretly gathered intelligence abroad since the Cold War era without informing the prime minister or defense minister, a practice considered as deviating from civilian control, former senior defense officials said the same day.

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GSDF monitoring civic group activities: internal documents

TOKYO, Japan - Kazuo Shii, chairman of the Japanese Communist Party, briefs reporters about internal documents of the Ground Self-Defense Force intelligence corps during a news conference in Tokyo on June 6.

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GSDF monitoring civic group activities: internal documents

TOKYO, Japan - Kazuo Shii, chairman of the Japanese Communist Party, briefs reporters about internal documents of the Ground Self-Defense Force intelligence corps during a news conference in Tokyo on June 6. (Kyodo)