Defense Minister Tomomi Inada gave the nod to withholding an apparently inconvenient fact that some controversial daily activity logs of Japanese troops in South Sudan existed even though the ministry had said they were discarded, government sources said Tuesday.The Defense Ministry had said the Ground Self-Defense Force had discarded the logs recorded by its members taking part in a U.N. peacekeeping mission in South Sudan. The logs' digital data were later found, but top officials decided at a meeting in February they would not disclose the fact and Inada agreed, the sources said.The reve…READ FULL ARTICLE
