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MessagePosté le: 17 Juil 2009 11:34    Sujet du message: Pacte nucléaire secret Japon-USA: l'opposition veut faire la lumière

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Source : Romandie News

TOKYO - Le chef de l'opposition au Japon a promis en cas de victoire aux prochaines élections de faire la lumière sur un pacte nucléaire secret entre Tokyo et Washington dont l'existence a toujours été démentie par le gouvernement conservateur, rapporte jeudi la presse.



Yukio Hatoyama, chef du Parti démocrate du Japon (PDJ) et favori des sondages pour devenir le prochain Premier ministre fin août, a déclaré que son parti soulèverait avec le gouvernement américain la question de ce document secret qui autorisait les navires et avions de guerre américains dotés d'armes nucléaires à faire escale au Japon pendant la Guerre froide.

Les armes nucléaires sont un sujet très sensible au Japon, seul pays victime de deux bombes atomiques larguées par les Américains en 1945. C'est pourquoi le gouvernement a adopté en 1968 la politique des "trois principes antinucléaires" interdisant la possession, le développement et la présence d'armes nucléaires sur son territoire.

"Tokyo et Washington vont discuter en détails de cette question si nous prenons les rênes du pouvoir. Il est souhaitable que l'on applique ouvertement +les trois principes antinucléaires+", a dit M. Hatoyama, cité par le Japan Times.

Les conservateurs du Parti libéral démocrate (PLD), qui dirigent le Japon depuis 1955 à l'exception d'une brève interruption de 10 mois dans les années 90, ont toujours démenti l'existence d'un tel pacte.

Toutefois, Taro Kono, président de la Commission des Affaires étrangères de la Chambre des députés et membre du PLD, accuse le gouvernement de mensonge et se dit convaincu qu'un pacte a bien été conclu, après s'être entretenu récemment avec un ancien vice-ministre des Affaires étrangères en exercice à la fin des années 1980, Ryohei Murata, qui affirme avoir eu le document en mains.

"L'ancien ambassadeur américain (Edwin O.) Reischauer a déjà fait état de ce pacte et il y a de nombreux documents officiels américains rendus publics qui en parlent", a déclaré à l'AFP M. Kono. "Donc il n'y a que le gouvernement japonais qui continue à nier."

Le député s'est dit convaincu que l'opposition ferait la lumière sur cette question en cas de victoire aux élections législatives du 30 août.

Le pacte secret aurait été passé au moment de la révision du traité de sécurité nippo-américain en 1960, qui prévoyait que les Etats-Unis devaient consulter le Japon avant tout déploiement important de personnel militaire ou d'armes sur le sol japonais.

Selon M. Kono, des navires américains transportant des armes nucléaires tactiques ont déjà fait escale dans des ports japonais, en violation des trois principes. "Mais le gouvernement japonais s'est efforcé de regarder de l'autre côté", a-t-il affirmé.

M. Kono se défend de vouloir uniquement remuer le passé.

"Nous devons discuter de la façon de prévenir une attaque nucléaire nord-coréenne contre le Japon", a-t-il expliqué. "Mais tant que le gouvernement japonais mentira au peuple, il sera très difficile d'avoir ce débat."

(©AFP / 16 juillet 2009 08h42)
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Si je peux me permettre de chipoter Laughing ... Je rajoute des articles qui ont précédé celui qui a été posté par EL, qui explique un peu mieux cette affaire, alors que pas plus tard qu'aujourd'hui, jour de commémoration de l'attaque US d'Hiroshima, Taro Aso a déclaré:

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"Je promets encore que le Japon continuera à suivre ces trois principes non-nucléaires et à prendre la tête dans la communauté internationale pour abolir les armes nucléaires et aboutir à une paix durable"


Ces 3 principes anti-nucléaires ne doivent-ils pas impliquer un devoir de transparence de la classe politique vis-à-vis de sa population concernant des éventuelles accords secrets? Twisted Evil

Voilà un article du Japan Times du 30 juin qui reprend les faits dès mai 2009, lorsque Ryôhei Murata, vice ministre des affaires étrangères de l'époque, s'est décidé à vendre la mêche...

Citation:
Ex-bureaucrat details secret U.S. nuke pact

Vice foreign ministers had a "secret duty" to inform their foreign ministers of the clandestine Tokyo-Washington accord that has covered the handling of nuclear arms in Japan since 1960, a former vice foreign minister said Monday.

Ryohei Murata unveiled the details about the secret pact during a telephone interview in which he agreed to give up his anonymity in speaking about the accord, on which Kyodo News reported in late May.

Holding the ministry's top bureaucratic post from 1987 to 1989, Murata, 79, is one of four former vice ministers cited in the May 31 report that said the accord has been controlled by top Foreign Ministry officials and only a handful of prime ministers and foreign ministers were told of it.

He also indicated his readiness to disclose the truth about the pact if summoned by the Diet, although he said, "I maintain positive feelings about the Foreign Ministry . . . so I would like to decline" to testify if not compelled to do so.

The Lower House Foreign Affairs Committee is considering summoning witnesses concerning the secret deal, the existence of which has been denied by the government although revealed by U.S. diplomatic documents declassified in the late 1990s.

(...)

Facing reporters Monday morning, Chief Cabinet Secretary Takeo Kawamura reiterated the government's position that such a secret pact "does not exist" and that nuclear weapons were not brought into Japan because prior consultations were never held.

Murata agreed to reveal himself as one of the sources after the Fukuoka-based Nishinippon Shimbun and other media on Sunday starting attributing reports about the pact to him.
In a March 18 interview with Kyodo in the city of Kyoto, Murata, on condition of anonymity, elaborated on how the secret was passed along to successive vice foreign ministers.

Revealing that a document recording the pact exists within the Foreign Ministry, Murata said, "I heard from my predecessor at the time (I became) vice minister that (an unpublicized) understanding exists between Japan and the United States concerning nuclear weapons, and turned it over to the next vice minister.

"It was a great secret. The Japanese government has been lying to its people," Murata said.

In Monday's interview, he said that when he was vice minister he notified foreign ministers of the time — Tadashi Kuranari and Sosuke Uno — about the pact, but not the prime minister.


Un article du Mainichi Shinbun du 11 juillet qui porte sur le document qui officialise l'accord entre Japon et EU:

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The original document of a secret Japan-U.S. agreement to allow U.S. military vessels carrying nuclear weapons to call at Japanese ports was kept at the Foreign Ministry until around 2001, a former high-ranking ministry official has revealed.

The agreement was signed by then Foreign Minister Aiichiro Fujiyama and then U.S. Ambassador to Japan Douglas MacArthur II on Jan. 6, 1960, when the two countries were negotiating revisions of the Japan-U.S. Security Treaty.

The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said that the document is identical to the official document on the secret agreement disclosed in the United States. He added that a Japanese translation was attached to it.

However, it was apparently destroyed along with relevant documents at the instruction of a then top official prior to the enactment of the Access to Government Information Act in April 2001, said the official, who had served as head of the ministry's Treaties Bureau.

On April 4, 1963, then Foreign Minister Masayoshi Ohira and then U.S. Ambassador to Japan Edwin Oldfather Reischauer reconfirmed the contents of the written agreement at the ambassador's official residence, according to the high-ranking official.

There was a memo that showed Ohira remarked in that meeting that under the secret agreement, Japan's three non-nuclear principles would not apply to the passage of Japan's territorial waters and calls at Japanese ports by U.S. vessels carrying nuclear arms. The principles stipulate that Japan must not possess, produce or permit the introduction into its territory nuclear weapons.

Moreover, the official also said that the ministry had preserved a copy of a note handwritten by senior diplomat Fumihiko Togo, describing in detail how to interpret the secret agreement and the process of negotiations on the accord.

Togo was involved in the amendment of the security treaty in 1960 as director of the American Affairs Bureau's National Security Affairs Division. He later served as administrative vice foreign minister and Japanese ambassador to the U.S.

There also remained in the ministry a document compiled when an outgoing administrative vice minister handed over the secret agreement to his successor.

All these documents had been kept at the ministry's Treaties Bureau, which is now the International Legal Affairs Bureau, and the American Affairs Bureau, now called the North American Affairs Bureau.

The high-ranking official said all the successive directors of the Treaties Bureau and the American Affairs Bureau knew about these documents.


Rahlala, heureusement que le PDJ est là pour faire la lumière sur cette histoire! De quoi ébranler toujours plus l'image de petit cachetier du PLD... Il est incroyable que ce soit tout de même un de ces membres qui se soit fait l'écho de ce scandale politico-militaire.

Allez, pour la route, un petit rappel de ces 3 principes anti-nucléaires et la position officielle du gouvernement japonais.

Citation:
Japan's Three Non-Nuclear Principles - as they are known - were first announced by then Prime Minister Sato Eisaku in December 1967. Codified in 1971 by a resolution in the Diet that stipulated that Japan would abide by them, the Three Principles have since been regarded as Japan's national policy. Sato received the Nobel Peace Prize for them in 1974. During his Nobel Lecture, he explained that the choice to unequivocally renounce to nuclear weapons was based on the country's excruciating experience of the atomic bomb and Article 9 of its peace constitution.


Citation:
The successive Cabinets of Japan have repeatedly articulated the "Three Non-Nuclear Principles," which is used to describe the policy of not possessing, not producing and not permitting the introduction of nuclear weapons into Japan. There is no change in the position of Government of Japan in that it continues to uphold these principles.

Japan ratified the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty in 1976, and placed itself under obligation, as a non-nuclear weapons state, not to produce or acquire nuclear weapons. Furthermore, Japan's domestic law called 'the Atomic Energy Basic Law' requires Japan's nuclear activities to be conducted only for peaceful purposes. These points also testifies that Japan has no intent to possess nuclear weapons.


http://fr.news.yahoo.com/4/20090806/twl-japon-nucleaire-41953f5.html
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20090630a2.html
http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/news/20090711p2a00m0na007000c.html
http://www.mofa.go.jp/POLICY/un/disarmament/nnp/index.html
http://www.article-9.org/en/index.html
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Le résultat des investigations du MAE japonais concernant le pacte secret Japon-US, qui permet aux USA de transporter des armes nucléaires sur le territoire japonais sans consultation du gouvernement nippon, va bientôt tomber, à la mi-janvier, selon un article du Asahi. Un pacte secret dont le PLD a toujours nié l'existence (du moins jusqu'en mai 2009, voir l'article plus haut) et dont le MAE a trouvé des traces écrites.
De plus, un autre pacte secret pourrait être dévoilé au grand jour: on parle d'un pacte qui permettrait aux ricains de transporter des armes nucléaires sur l'archipel d'Okinawa en cas de situation d'urgence.

Au Japon, on se demande toujours pourquoi un officiel du MAE japonais a voulu détruire l'existence des documents concernant ces pactes, et pourquoi les archives n'ont toujours pas livrées leurs secrets alors que les 30 ans de secret défense sont passés...

asahi a écrit:

The investigation, ordered by Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada, into the alleged secret pacts between Japan and the United States is entering its final stages. The ministry's investigation team has finished its in-house probe. On Friday, a panel of outside experts kicked off its inquiry. The results will be released in mid-January.

The ministry's team has discovered documents, among Japanese files, that substantiate the existence of a secret pact between the two governments allowing the United States to carry nuclear weapons into Japanese territory without prior consultation. The pact was agreed upon when the Japan-U.S. security treaty was revised.

The existence of this pact was already an open secret, revealed by testimony by former U.S. government officials and U.S. documents declassified under the Freedom of Information Act. Yet, successive Liberal Democratic Party governments and Foreign Ministry bureaucrats denied its existence. Their lies have now been demolished.

This would never have happened had there not been a change of government.

The documents show there was a secret understanding that entry of U.S. vessels carrying nuclear weapons into Japanese ports or passing through Japanese territorial waters do not constitute "bringing in" nuclear weapons into Japan, which would require prior consultation.

Since the Foreign Ministry has not yet released its findings, we still do not know specific details of this pact, nor do we know to what extent the possible existence of yet another alleged secret pact, allowing the entry of nuclear weapons into Okinawa in emergency situations, has been uncovered.

The expert panel should review and disclose the contents and negotiations of the secret pacts. The panel should also review the ministry's probe to see if it missed anything, including how the secret pacts were kept from the public and the results should be disclosed.

The matter strikes at the core of the nation's democracy, for it is about how the government deceived the public for such a long time.

The Japan-U.S. security treaty marks its 50th anniversary next year, and the two governments are preparing to discuss ways to deepen their alliance. In order to realize what the foreign minister calls a "diplomacy based on the public's understanding and trust," we urge the government to release its information as soon as possible.

Moreover, we ask the expert panel to analyze the historical background of why and how the pacts came into being.

It is not commendable diplomacy for a democratic country to agree on a secret pact that cannot be revealed to the public. Even if there were extenuating circumstances making the pact necessary at the time, records should be released as soon as possible, and be exposed to the judgement of history.

Regarding the documents related to the secret pacts, it is said high-ranking Foreign Ministry officials ordered their destruction around 2001, when the nation's information disclosure law took effect. It must be clarified if this was true, and if so who issued the order.

As a rule, diplomatic documents are made public after 30 years, but they remain classified in many cases at the discretion of the Foreign Ministry. Documents concerning such key issues as the revision of the Japan-U.S. security treaty, the Okinawa handover and the negotiation process on normalization of relations between Japan and South Korea remain classified, although related documents have all been declassified by Japan's counterpart governments. We hope the expert panel produces some concrete recommendations to improve the situation of declassifying documents.

If the government officially admits the existence of the secret pacts, it is bound to put under the spotlight the government's three nonnuclear principles--nuclear weapons shall not be possessed, made nor enter Japan.

Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama promised at the summit of the United Nations Security Council in September that Japan will uphold the three principles. That judgement was realistic and appropriate. We hope the past 50 years will be reviewed with clear and penetrating eyes.


Un autre article décorticant les preuves de l'existence du pacte secret, toujours selon le Asahi

asahi a écrit:

A document that refers to records of meetings leading up to a secret nuclear pact between Japan and the United States has been found among government files, it was learned over the weekend.

Sources said the document, which details the 1960 agreement that ended up allowing U.S. warplanes or vessels carrying nuclear weapons to pass through or make port calls in Japanese territory without prior consultation, also confirms the existence of transcripts of earlier meetings.

It was found during in-house investigations conducted under orders from Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada. The finding refutes the government's previous claim that such an agreement, or records of negotiations, do not exist.
The Foreign Ministry examined 2,694 volumes of files concerning the Japan-U.S. security arrangement and 571 volumes concerning the reversion of Okinawa to Japanese rule that were kept at the ministry, as well as about 400 files kept at the Japanese embassy in Washington.

Mitsuru Kitano, assistant vice-minister for crisis management at the Foreign Minister's Secretariat, notified Okada about the finding on Friday.

Okada told reporters Saturday that the outcome of the assessment of the document would be disclosed in January.

The latest document refers to a record of discussions held between Japanese and U.S. officials up to January 1960, just prior to the revision of the Japan-U.S. Security Treaty. The record of discussions spelled out the conditions for prior consultation when carrying nuclear weapons into Japanese territory.

According to a document disclosed by the United States, cases involving the entry of U.S. military aircraft or naval vessels into Japanese territory or ports were not considered to affect existing procedures.

The U.S. took the position that simply entering Japanese territorial airspace or waters, or entering ports, was not considered to be introducing nuclear weapons onto Japanese territory.

The U.S. document was a draft record of the deliberations that reached agreement in June 1959.

The newly discovered document is not the record of those same deliberations, but details the pact reached on Jan. 6, 1960, between Foreign Minister Aiichiro Fujiyama and U.S. Ambassador to Japan Douglas MacArthur II.

Previous administrations under the Liberal Democratic Party rule repeatedly denied the existence of a clandestine agreement.

They also denied the existence of records of dialogue leading to the pact. In May 2000, Foreign Minister Yohei Kono said he was unaware of the document released by the United States.

Most recently, then Foreign Minister Hirofumi Nakasone said in July that the procedure for seeking prior consultation was based on official documents exchanged between Washington and Tokyo, and also a verbal understanding between Fujiyama and MacArthur.

The latest revelation undermines this claim.

Some experts have pointed out that initially the Japanese negotiators were not aware they were giving the United States a free hand to bring naval ships carrying nuclear weapons into Japanese ports.

Japanese government officials had repeatedly stated in the Diet that merely entering ports and passing through Japanese territorial waters or airspace constituted introduction of nuclear weapons onto Japanese territory.

It has also been revealed that U.S. officials demanded Tokyo reconfirm the agreement on several occasions.

Other documents reveal how Japan came to realize the discrepancy in interpretation.

In April 1963, Foreign Minister Masayoshi Ohira and U.S. Ambassador Edwin O. Reischauer held talks to narrow the gap on interpretation, and Ohira is said to have accepted the U.S. take. No records of this meeting have been found.
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C'est fait, l'honneur est sauf pour le Japon, le rapport demandé par le Ministre des Affaires Etrangères Okada, paru hier, le 9 mars, annonce que les 3 principes anti-nucléaires du Japon ont été respecté car les navires américains porteurs de matériel nucléaire n'ont jamais jeté l'encre dans quelconque port japonais ou même pénétré les eaux territoriales nippones.

Donc tout le remue ménage autour de ces accords secrets aurait-il été vain? Juste pour déséquilibrer un PLD vascillant avant les élections d'août? Ou pour se décrédibiliser auprès de son électorat en promettant de faire la lumière sur cette affaire au lendemain des élections? Car là, le PDJ ne fait que ménager les Etats-Unis en publiant ce rapport en cet année de 50ème anniversaire du traité US-Japon et de tergiversations sur la relocalisation des troupes US stationnées à Okinawa... car oui, il y a bien eu un accord secret en 1968 où il était question que les navires américains pouvaient circulaient dans les eaux japonaises et faire escale où bon leur semble au Japon. Mais il n'avait pas obligation de déclarer s'il y avait à bord des armes nucléaires.

Plus de 300 documents ont été épluché par les experts pour en arriver à ces conclusions. On imagine que de nombreux documents ont été détruit (voir article précédent) avec les remerciements du PLD et que la lumière ne sera qu'à moitié faite, malgré la possibilité de faire témoigner certains personnages clés, alors même que depuis 68 tous les premiers ministres et ministres des affaires étrangères avaient été mis au parfum sur cet accord secret. Ces experts demandent même un complément d'enquête.

Par ailleurs, un autre accord secret a été divulgué, concernant la possibilité pour les Etats-Unis de déployer leurs troupes basées au Japon en Corée en cas de conflit sans consultation préalable. Par contre, la suspicion sur la circulation d'armes nucléaires à Okinawa par les EU n'a pu être confirmée faute de preuve.

Voilà ce qu'en dise le Asahi et le Mainichi:

Asahi a écrit:

For years, secrets and deceptions were the order of the day when government officials stood before the Diet and told lawmakers that U.S. Navy ships never carried nuclear weapons into Japanese ports or when passing through its territorial waters.

That's the thrust of a report released Tuesday that was ordered by Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada soon after the Democratic Party of Japan took power last September to verify the existence of secret pacts between Japan and the United States.

Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama said Tuesday that "Japan will maintain as before" the three non-nuclear principles of not possessing, manufacturing or bringing nuclear weapons into its territory.

In an earlier exclusive interview with The Asahi Shimbun, Okada reiterated that U.S. warships passing through Japanese waters or making port calls while carrying nuclear weapons would constitute the introduction of nuclear weapons.

Okada added that he did not believe any problems would arise with the United States since no U.S. Navy ships currently carry nuclear weapons.

Experts studied about 300 documents to reach their conclusions.

The investigation found that since 1968 government officials gave approval to passage and port calls of all U.S. Navy warships without asking whether they were carrying nuclear weapons. All prime ministers since were aware of the sub rosa pact.

Government officials were keenly aware the ships could be carrying nuclear weapons. But for decades, they insisted that no port calls were made by ships with nuclear weapons because there had been no prior consultation between the two nations to allow such port calls.

A number of important documents were not found, and the experts group recommended further investigation to determine if and why they were destroyed. The document used to demonstrate the existence of a secret nuclear pact was a confidential memo compiled by Fumihiko Togo, then director-general of the Foreign Ministry's North American Affairs Bureau, and dated Jan. 27, 1968.

It describes the exchange Togo had with U.S. Ambassador U. Alexis Johnson the previous day. Johnson explained the U.S. interpretation of U.S. Navy ships with nuclear weapons. The two sides agreed to stick to their own interpretation.

Thereafter, even though Japan now recognized that the American interpretation meant no prior consultation was needed for U.S. ships carrying nuclear arms when making port calls or passing through Japanese waters, government officials still insisted in public that it was required.

The document was used in explaining the government policy to succeeding prime ministers and foreign ministers. In the margin of the document is a notation indicating that then Prime Minister Eisaku Sato had read it.

There are also notations indicating that Kakuei Tanaka, Yasuhiro Nakasone and Noboru Takeshita, among others, were all briefed when they took over as prime minister.

An attached memo compiled by Takakazu Kuriyama when he was foreign vice minister in 1989 shows that Toshiki Kaifu was briefed about the policy, indicating that the tacit approval was handed down for at least two decades.

A secret pact was also recognized by the experts group for an agreement made in conjunction with the 1960 revision of the Japan-U.S. Security Treaty that would allow U.S. troops based in Japan to deploy to the Korean Peninsula without prior consultation should a military conflict erupt.

Concerning a secret pact on whether nuclear weapons could be brought back into Okinawa after it reverted to Japanese sovereignty, the group said there was no evidence one existed.

The group agreed that a secret pact in the broad sense existed for the agreement to have Japan shoulder the cost of restoring land to its former condition in line with the Okinawa reversion even though no document was found.


Mainichi a écrit:

Japan must turn the page on 'see no evil' stance over secret pacts with U.S.
"You may fool all the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all the time; but you can't fool all of the people all the time."

The latest development on the probe into Japan-U.S. secret pacts -- in which a Foreign Ministry panel concluded that secret pacts were reached by the two countries, leading the government to end its denial of their existence -- reminds us of these famous words by Abraham Lincoln.

Most of the public accepted as a "historical fact" that the Japanese government allowed port calls by U.S. vessels carrying nuclear weapons, following testimonies and official documents released in the U.S. The Japanese government alone had stuck to what it knew was fiction.

The three non-nuclear principles of not producing, not possessing and not allowing the entry of nuclear weapons into Japan, which have been a pillar for Japan's nuclear policy and diplomacy, also turned out to have been only superficial. What we've actually had, instead, were the three principles of "see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil."

So what on earth did successive Japanese administrations want to guard through secret bilateral agreements?

Since the end of World War II, Japan has taken the path of a lightly armed, peaceful country, as best represented by war-renouncing Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution. Japan was even allowed to pursue such a path during the Cold War, thanks to the Japan-U.S. Security Treaty. The secret agreement allowing the introduction of nuclear weapons into Japan had, from the very start, been incorporated into the bilateral security arrangement as an apparatus to cover up the inconsistency of Japan, as the world's only nation to have been atom-bombed, to come under the U.S. nuclear umbrella.

In his book "The Emptiness of Japanese Affluence," Australian researcher Gavan McCormack points out that Japan has dual Constitutions -- the Japanese Constitution and the Japan-U.S. Security Treaty. The latter was indeed "the second Constitution" for successive Japanese governments, but they never admitted to the existence of the secret agreements because such arrangements could challenge their legitimacy. This had been the logic behind Japan's post-war diplomacy.

The latest report by the Foreign Ministry panel also acknowledged that there was a secret pact for Japan to shoulder the cost of restoring the land used by the U.S. military to its original state at the time of the 1972 reversion of Okinawa to Japan. A Mainichi Shimbun reporter who obtained documents related to the secret pact before he broke the story was arrested on charges of violating the National Public Service Law.

That particular pact was only the tip of the iceberg on secret agreements between Japan and the U.S., with the one allowing the introduction of nuclear weapons at the pinnacle. The case gives us a glimpse of the depth of darkness that shrouded Japan's post-war politics and the bilateral security arrangement.

What brought about secret pact diplomacy between Japan and the U.S. may have been overconfidence in the myth of infallibility in Japan that a handful of political leaders and diplomatic elites can control the bilateral alliance.

However, as the public was kept ignorant of the true state of the alliance, it could lead to a strain on the state of current ties with the U.S.

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the current Japan-U.S. Security Treaty. We must start over again from square one as we get rid of the secret pact mechanism that is the legacy of the Cold War.


EDIT:
Un autre point a été soulevé dans ce rapport: le prix que le Japon a dû payer pour la restauration des bases US lors de la restitution d'Okinawa sous pavillon japonais en 1972. Le tarif - secret - était de 4 millions de dollars... à ajouter au 320 millions de dollars officiels exigés par les EU pour la restitution d'Okinawa.
A noter que ces accords secrets avaient déjà été dénoncé par un journaliste dès 1971, et que ça lui a valu une belle amende au nom de la sécurité d'Etat, la justice ne s'étant meme pas prononcé sur les allégations du journaliste à l'époque. (ces accords secrets ont filtré à cause de l'administration US dans les 2000's)

http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/news/20100310p2a00m0na016000c.html
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