In response to the problem that a senior member of the Maritime Self-Defense Force leaked information containing "specially classified secrets" to alumni, the Information Surveillance Committee of the House of Councilors asked Minister of Defense Hamada on the 2nd to reveal the information that incumbent members of the Self-Defense Forces provided to alumni. We recommended to investigate the actual situation of provision.
In December last year, the Ministry of Defense, the Self-Defense Forces, disciplinary dismissal of the Maritime Self-Defense Force's first lieutenant commander for leaking information containing "special secrets" that require advanced information security to former employees, violating the Special Secrets Protection Law. Documents were sent for prosecution due to suspicions such as
In response to this, on the 2nd, the Information Monitoring and Examination Committee of the House of Councilors made a recommendation to Minister of Defense Hamada, with the approval of Speaker Otsuji, saying that the Ministry of Defense's information security system needed to be improved.
The recommendation pointed out that this problem was caused by a special and strict hierarchical relationship within the Self-Defense Forces, and it is feared that similar events may occur in the future
. We are requesting that we promptly investigate the actual state of information provision, and that
▽ countries that provide confidential information to Japan carefully explain future measures.
Chairman Haruko Arimura told reporters, ``We cannot overlook the fact that a person who should be an expert in confidential information management was involved in the leak, and we take it extremely seriously.''
Regarding this issue, the Information Oversight Board of the House of Representatives also made similar recommendations in January.