Out of 443 state secrets designated by the government as of the end of 2015 under law, 166 were not documented, an annual report released by a parliamentar
Out of 443 state secrets designated by the government as of the end of 2015 under law, 166 were not documented, an annual report released by a parliamentary panel showed Wednesday.
The undocumented secrets included those designated in advance when concrete information did not exist, and cases in which such secrets were kept only in the memories of individuals.
The report was submitted by the Board of Oversight and Review of Specially Designated Secrets in the House of Representatives to Tadamori Oshima, speaker of the Lower House.
Previously, the board complained that papers were not created even when this was possible. Particularly, the number of secrets designated in advance is excessively high, it said.
In response, the Foreign Ministry, the Defense Ministry, the Cabinet Secretariat and other government agencies drew up documents or declassified some of the information, reducing the number of undocumented secrets to 130.
