April 7, 2010
Japan's foreign ministry has set up a panel to examine the possible scrapping of diplomatic documents on the so-called Japan-US secret agreement on nuclear issues.
The ministry's former treaties bureau chief, Kazuhiko Togo, told the Diet recently that the documents may have been destroyed.
Togo said he sorted through key documents on the secret nuclear pact and other issues and turned them over to his successor, Shotaro Yachi, who later became vice foreign minister.The former administrations of the Liberal Democratic Party repeatedly denied the existence of any secret deals.
The new panel is headed by Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada of the governing Democratic Party and includes 2 university professors.
It will hear the views of Yachi and other officials and will publish the results of its inquiry.
Okada told reporters on Tuesday that the panel should complete its work in less than a year.
2010/04/06 23:45(JST)
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