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[SIZE="3"]Japan's military watched citizens[/SIZE]
[url=href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070606/wl_nm/japan_military_watch_dc_1]Wed Jun 6, 4:40 AM ET
TOKYO (Reuters) -[/url]Japan's military illegally gathered information on the activities of ordinary citizens in 2003 and 2004, including those who opposed the dispatch of Japanese troops to
Iraq, Japan's Communist Party said on Wednesday.
The charges could prove a new headache for Japan's military, which has come under fire for leaked classified information on a missile defense system.....Kazuo Shii told a news conference he had obtained copies of internal documents from a division of the Ground Self-defense Force -- Japan's army in all but name -- recording surveillance activities carried out on ordinary citizens as well as journalists, photographers and artists[url=href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070606/wl_nm/japan_military_watch_dc_1]...more...[/url]
