New Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera vowed Thursday to restore public trust in his ministry following a data coverup scandal and said one of his main tasks is to review Japan's defense program guidelines last made in 2013 amid growing North Korean missile threats."We will make sure the same problem will not happen again and make utmost efforts to revive public confidence," Onodera said at a press conference after he assumed the ministerial post, referring to the scandal which has thrown the Defense Ministry into disarray and led his predecessor Tomomi Inada to resign last week."The importa…READ FULL ARTICLE
