The National Diet Library deleted the entry for a document about a 1953 Justice Ministry order on abandonment of Japanese justice on U.S. service personnel from its catalog of documents by early June, following the ministry’s request, the library and ministry said Monday.
The ministry in late May requested to make the information inaccessible as “(Public viewing of the documents) potentially harms (Japan’s) relations of trust with the United States,” they said, but shelving of the document may provoke public criticism from the standpoint of people’s right to know.
Source: Japan Today
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