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Nearly 200,000 Japan documents designated as special secrets in 2014

Some 190,000 documents designated as special secrets in 2014, Mainichi 17 Apr 15  The government had Abe NUCLEAR FASCISMdesignated 189,193 administrative documents as confidential under the state secrecy law as of the end of last year, the Cabinet Secretariat announced on April 17.

This was the first time that the agency released the number of such governmental documents since the Act on the Protection of Specially Designated Secrets came into force in December of last year.

According to the Cabinet Secretariat, the documents are owned by 13 ministries and agencies. The actual number of documents designated as special secrets has not been disclosed, however, since the released figure includes duplicated documents that are shared among several ministries and agencies.

The Defense Ministry tops the list of classified document holders, with 60,173 individual documents, followed by the Cabinet Secretariat with 55,829, the Foreign Ministry with 35,783, the National Police Agency with 17,874, the Public Security Intelligence Agency with 9,297, and the Japan Coast Guard with 9,174.

In January, the Cabinet Secretariat announced that 10 ministries and agencies had classified 382 individual pieces of information as special state secrets as of the end of last year — all of which are found within the aforementioned 189,193 documents………http://mainichi.jp/english/english/newsselect/news/20150418p2a00m0na004000c.html

April 20, 2015 - Posted by | Japan, secrets,lies and civil liberties

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  1. This is possible because Japanese People — unlike USA Citizens — are not the owners and rulers of their sopciety, but are servants of the excessively rich family persons who corrupt and control their government employees.
    And that, in turn, is possible because their culture chooses to lie rather than offend another person. Truth is the word we use to describe when an idea in our mind accurately describes reality.
    So, for example, the reality of the disaster of Fukushima is lied abouot with the result that hundreds of thousands of persons are killed, damaged, and their children’s DNA mutated forever, and their very nation and economy ruined rather than face the fact that Tepco’s rich owners have mismanaged and are guilty of the deaths and etc. they have caused

    troneill's avatar Comment by troneill | April 20, 2015 | Reply


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