scandal

The scandal in army, Self Defence Force, the department of defence, defence agency and so on are called the Defence Scandal. That contents are sorted into personal problems and organizational problems. Personal problems are for example a sex crime, violence, theft, embezzlement, drinking and driving, drug and so on. And, organizational problems are for example adhesion, covering up the scandal, bribery, advanced agreement and so on. Though Self Defence Forces are to nation and people, there are some bad people in these members. I like Japanese Self Defence Force so I hate such scandal and think that they must prevent happenning of these scandals. I decided to write about scandals because I think that if we know Japanese Self Defence Forces, we have to know not only good things on the surface but also the hidden side of bad things about these.

Introduction of theirs mainly scandal that have happened so far

In 1983, the case of Douglas Grumman : This case is the corruption case of purchase of battle planes between Japan and America. At first, when Japan introduced battle planes, adopting of planes made in America was definite. After that, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission pressed charges against that battle plane company, that company gave Japanese government official 15,000 dollors for selling theirs battle planes.

In 1988, Nadashio incident : This incident is accident too because this insident is collision of Maritime Self Defence Force's submarine “Nadashio” and a fishing boat and that fishing boat sank. The number of deaths was 30 of 48 (excess over capacity of that fishing boat) crews. But, on that time, theirs rescue and furnishing of information were late and they were suspected that the captain rewrote the ship's journal, and they met with severe criticism from many people after that time. The Chief Defence Agency in that time assumed responsibility for something and resigned his post. Besides that, the respomsible person of not only Nadashio but also that fishing boat was judged as guilty in 1992.

In 2000, the case of Bogatenkov : The contents of this case is that Bogatenkov, agent of the intelligence organ of Russian Federales Generalnogo “Shtaba Glavnoje Razvedyvatel'noje Upravlenije”, spied into Shigehiro Hagisaki , the commander of Japanese Maritime Self Defence Force. Bogatenkov contacted Shigehiro Hagisaki at the International Security Symposium and then, he had a close relationship with Shigehiro and got a lot of classified information of Japanese Self Defence Forces through Shigehiro. Before that time, police had suspected Bogatenkov as spy of Shtaba Glavnoje Razvedyvatel'noje Upravlenije so Shigehiro was put under guard. After that, they were secured, and Shigehiro was arrested but Bogatenkov ignored that and went back to Russia. Through this case, preparation for preservation of the Defense Agency's secret came to the problem and the Defence Agency established Information Preservation Unit in 2003 to fortify with preservation of secret information.

In not only Self Defence Force but also many government agency, many scandals have happened. I think that these problems can not but happen in any organizations and we have to know these

problems to decrease.