Hi Blog. We’ve heard rumors of this before in the past, and it turns out they were true: Imagine the uproar that would ensue in the US if the US military or State Department (with their high numbers of international spouses) were to engage in these sorts of practices–treating their employees as untrustworthy because they married foreigners, naturally all suspectable as spies! Debito in Sapporo<\/p>\n
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MSDF officers with foreign spouses to be moved from sensitive posts TOKYO \u2014 The Maritime Self-Defense Force plans to move officers with The MSDF will start the transfers from Aug of 10 officers who are About 150 officers out of a total of 40,000 are married to foreign A 33-year-old petty officer allegedly obtained confidential data on However, an unconfirmed newspaper report later said the leak may have ENDS UPDATE JULY 3 2007. FEEDBACK FROM CYBERSPACE, ANONYMIZED:<\/b><\/p>\n First of all naturally I’d like to thank you for your I was writing today to alert you of something The reason for this he says is a very old rule in the Naturally, I’m a bit angry about all of this. I can’t This situation with him I find sadly comical. Already \n<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force plans to move officers with foreign spouses away from posts with access to military secrets after sensitive data was leaked through an officer with a Chinese wife, the Sankei Shimbun reported Wednesday, June 28, 2007. Cyberspace feedback from someone who has experienced the SDF institutional distrust of NJ spouses included.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-immigration-assimilation","category-japanese-government","category-problematic-foreign-treatment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nJapan Today, Thursday, June 28, 2007 at 05:00 EDT<\/b>
\nhttp:\/\/www.japantoday.com\/jp\/news\/410685<\/a>
\nCourtesy of Ben at The Community<\/a> and Ken at Trans Pacific Radio<\/a><\/p>\n
\nforeign spouses away from posts with access to military secrets after
\nsensitive data was leaked through an officer with a Chinese wife, the
\nSankei Shimbun reported Wednesday. <\/p>\n
\nmarried to non-Japanese nationals and who have access to high-level
\nmilitary secrets. The paper said the move is aimed at protecting
\nmilitary secrets in the wake of an embarrassing leak of confidential
\ninformation on the U.S.-developed high-tech Aegis combat system, the
\nconservative daily said.<\/p>\n
\nnationals, according to the daily. Of them, 100 are Chinese, it said.<\/p>\n
\nthe Aegis system without authorization. The leak came to light after
\nthe officer’s Chinese wife was arrested in January for a visa
\nviolation.<\/p>\n
\noccurred by accident when the officer was swapping pornography over
\nthe Internet.<\/p>\n
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\nwebsite over the years. Being in a lower class
\nposition in Japan and often singled out not only for
\nthe usual xenophobic pressures we encounter here but
\nalso for my subcultural status your website has long
\nbeen a necessary resource. <\/i><\/p>\n
\ndisturbing I recently encountered with regards to the
\nJapanese self defense force. This might be something
\nyou’re already aware of or have written on within the
\nwebsite (I attempted to search but honestly… there’s
\nsimply too much there to be sure I covered
\neverything). My current spouse is in the SDF and
\nthe other day I learned a very disturbing fact about
\nthe nature of our relationship — when he is on base
\nand when he talks to his military associates I am
\nJapanese. <\/p>\n
\nSDF that members are not allowed to fraternize with
\nforeigners. Period. And that while the penalty for
\nhim is negligible (normal disciplinary action, which
\njudging from the times he’s stayed over late and
\narrived late at base can’t be that bad) his violation
\nof this rule could bring the military police to my
\ndoorstep for interrogation and a search and seizure of
\nmy electronic equiptment. He believes it’s more
\ndoubtful as I’m non-Asian but says this has happened
\nrecently with the Chinese wives of SDF personnel.<\/p>\n
\nblame my spouse — like I said, my friends are in
\nthe low class spectrum and the benefits and pay for
\nthe SDF really outweigh a lot of the problems, very
\nsimilar to the argument for many military outfits.
\nHowever on the broad scale of institutionalized racism
\nthis digs under my skin. I’m a national security risk
\nbecause I’m not Japanese? My spouse couldn’t cite the
\nwording of the law but I’m curious — how are second
\nand third generation citizens perceived? It’s the
\ngrey “gaijin” box again.<\/p>\n
\nhe has to keep large parts of his hobby at my house
\nlest his superiors think he’s a communist out against
\nthe emperor and now with me he has to leave all his
\nphotos of me at my house. On his cell phone he uses
\nthe Japanese version of my name for my information and
\nmy e-mail address is kept anonymous like all these
\nenglish texts are from some stranger with no
\nconnection. A bit depressing.
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\nENDS\n<\/p>\n