Japanese MSDF captain suspected of leaking state secret

Just one secret, or a whole slew I wonder?No information given, so not easy to comment.

As of the end of June, there were a total of 693 state secrets

So, there is a database, and each secret has to be registered? And this database is public, otherwise how can we know how many secrets there are in each category? Is there a description of each secret as well?

A chinese US Navy officer was found guilty of espionage to the government of China concerning submarine warfare, the most secretive Classified Material there is.

Don’t know why he was allowed to be in such a position in the first place, of a P-3 Submarine Hunting Squadron.

As of the end of June, there were a total of 693 state secrets, of which 392 were designated by the Defense Ministry, according to the Cabinet Secretariat.

I would have loved to be a fly on the wall when the secrets were decided upon! Personally speaking, even telling how many there are should be a state-secret as well! The Cabinet Secretariat should be taken into custody for blabbing that one out!

New laws about that!

To which country did the MSDF officer leak the top state secret that Kishida is the most incompetent PM Japan has ever had?

So what was the secret?

Or is that a secret?

Instant dismissal. No further pay accrued.

Hardly a leak, more a breach of protocol…

10 years is lean, how about life in prison!??

Sounds promising for the 6th get fighter then.

They COULD tell us what the secret is BUT, then they’d have to kill us.

Photo looks like the tower scene out of Westworld where all humans are controlled - not far off in real life.

As I suspected, it’s probably more of a translation problem, as the Japanese doesn’t differentiate. Possibly suspected of ‘leaking state secrets’ with a s, might have been a safer way to phrase it.

Quote: up to 10 years in prison.

That's one way to keep love hotel visits out of the tabloids.

To which country did the MSDF officer leak the top state secret that Kishida is the most incompetent PM Japan has ever had?

What it sounds like from the article is a retired Admiral asked an active duty Captain for some information that is classified, and the Captain asked a third person to provide the information the Admiral wanted. It sounds as if the information went no further than the retired Admiral. This kind of thing could have happened under any PM btw. PMs do not generally get into the weeds with classified material, and probably isn't even cleared to know most of those 693 state secrets ( a number which seems incredibly small btw ).

Treat state secrets seriously with respect and care, no matter what country you work for. Disregard can come back to haunt you.

A chinese US Navy officer was found guilty of espionage to the government of China concerning submarine warfare, the most secretive Classified Material there is.

The officer in question came to the US at age 14 from Taiwan, not China. He apparently gave classified information to both Taiwan and China. It looks like the Navy is also going to prosecute him for passing classified information to unauthorized parties, for giving a false leave address (didn't tell the Navy he was traveling abroad, which requires prior written consent, even to visit Canada or Mexico) and for patronizing a prostitute. His career is over.

He was assigned to an EP-3 squadron. These are not ASW aircraft but rather conduct Electronic Intelligence, or ELINT. It is as you say highly classified work. I would argue however that nobody posting here has even the slightest idea what the most classified material is. The information those EP-3s collect feed all kinds of classified programs and warfare studies.

The biggest secrets in the military involve how much arms manufacturers pay to have their products purchased by bribe taking personnel.

A state secret is whatever the government decides it is and they don't have to inform the reason because it is a secret.

secrets include intelligence and information obtained by radio waves and images, military operation plans, as well as codes used by the SDF and the amount of ammunition

And where are the secrets here? -radio waves are available to everyone, any good multiband receiver brings them to you -images are a worthless secret as they can be a fake, created or falsified by any cheap pixel modifying software -militarily operation plans? since when are we in a military operation, maybe I missed an important news, which I doubt -codes used by SDF? it’s there fault, if they use an encryption method that is possible to decipher, there are simple ones available no one could ever decrypt with whatever sophisticated method, so use such -amount of ammunition? That information is of no use, because already everyone knows, that currently any amount , even if doubled or tripled in the next years , isn’t sufficient, compared to the well-known potential enemies. So, considered all that, there aren’t any so-called secrets around. That’s only ‘secret’ in their strange minds, but not in reality.

It wasn't anything that China didn't already know.