{"id":54394,"date":"2024-07-12T16:45:39","date_gmt":"2024-07-12T06:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abnews.com.au\/?p=54394"},"modified":"2024-07-12T16:45:39","modified_gmt":"2024-07-12T06:45:39","slug":"japan-navy-chief-of-staff-quits-over-security-breaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/?p=54394","title":{"rendered":"Japan Navy chief of staff quits over security breaches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Japanese Navy&#8217;s chief of staff quit on Friday after a raft of scandals including over people without adequate security clearances handling classified defence materials.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I will resign from the chief of maritime staff job on July 19 and retire,&#8221; said Admiral Ryo Sakai, the most senior uniformed officer in the Maritime Self-Defense Force (MSDF).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As chief of the maritime staff, I am responsible for the training of personnel and the organisational management of the force, and I&#8217;m rightly held accountable for failing to fulfil my duties as the manager of specified secrets,&#8221; Sakai told reporters.<\/p>\n<p>Chief government spokesman Yoshimasa Hayashi also said that &#8220;disciplinary action&#8221; had also been taken against more than 200 people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Japanese Navy&#8217;s chief of staff quit on Friday after a raft of scandals including over people without adequate security clearances handling classified defence materials. &#8220;I will resign from the chief of maritime staff job on July 19 and retire,&#8221; said Admiral Ryo Sakai, the most senior uniformed officer in the Maritime Self-Defense Force (MSDF). [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54395,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1959],"class_list":["post-54394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","tag-japan-navy-chief-of-staff-quits-over-security-breaches"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}