Police Arrest Former ASDF Officer On Charges of Leaking Classified Data
January 17 2020
Japanese police have arrested a retired Air Self-Defense Force (ASDF) officer for allegedly providing details of U.S. military aircraft to unauthorized recipients, reports the Kyodo news agency (Tokyo).
So Kanno, 58, was arrested on Friday. He retired at the rank of colonel in 2017.
Police allege that Kanno shared classified details of U.S. airborne early warning and control (AEW&C) aircraft to a private sector employee in 2013, when he was in charge of the ASDF's Air Development...
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