Defense chief vows to cooperate in probe over suspected data coverup

Defense Minister Tomomi Inada said Friday she will cooperate with an internal probe into a suspected data coverup concerning troop activities during a U.N. peacekeeping mission in South Sudan, after reports emerged of her alleged role in the matter.But while expressing a readiness to be questioned by inspectors, the minister denied playing a role in keeping from the public the daily activity logs that were initially said to have been discarded by Ground Self-Defense Force members but that had actually been preserved.Inada also repeated her intention not to step down from her post, though ma…READ FULL ARTICLE