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Created
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08TOKYO3142
2008-11-12 07:38:00
CONFIDENTIAL
Embassy Tokyo
Cable title:
JAPAN REFUELING MISSION TO CONTINUE, ANTI-TERROR
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C O N F I D E N T I A L TOKYO 003142
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: DECL: 11/12/2018
TAGS: MARR PGOV PINR PREL JA
SUBJECT: JAPAN REFUELING MISSION TO CONTINUE, ANTI-TERROR
SPECIAL MEASURES LAW TO PASS ON NOVEMBER 20
REF: TOKYO 3069
Classified By: AMBASSADOR J. THOMAS SCHIEFFER, REASONS 1.4 (B) AND (D)
C O N F I D E N T I A L TOKYO 003142
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: DECL: 11/12/2018
TAGS: MARR PGOV PINR PREL JA
SUBJECT: JAPAN REFUELING MISSION TO CONTINUE, ANTI-TERROR
SPECIAL MEASURES LAW TO PASS ON NOVEMBER 20
REF: TOKYO 3069
Classified By: AMBASSADOR J. THOMAS SCHIEFFER, REASONS 1.4 (B) AND (D)
1. (C) The bill extending the Anti-Terrorism Special Measures
Law will clear the Diet on November 20, according to Embassy
Tokyo contacts in the Diet and Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The Upper House Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee will
vote on the bill on November 18 and then send it to an Upper
House plenary session on the 19th, where it is expected to be
rejected and returned to the Lower House. The Lower House,
using its power to override the rejection, will approve the
bill in a plenary session on November 20. This approval will
extend the refueling law authorizing the Maritime
Self-Defense Forces Indian Ocean refueling mission for one
year beyond its current January 15, 2009 expiration.
2. (C) Following the October 31 ouster of former AIR Self
Defense FORCE Chief of Staff Toshio Tamogami (reftel),and
his subsequent, unapologetic November 11 Diet testimony,
Japanese government officials had predicted a multi-week
delay in the passage of the Anti-Terror bill. Prime Minister
Aso's public remarks calling Tamogami's essay "extremely
inappropriate" and his promise to implement educational
programs on WWII that are in line with Japanese government
views, blunted criticism. The bill's more
rapid-than-expected passage through the Upper House has also
been aided by Aso's participation in November 13
opposition-led deliberations on civilian control of the
Self-Defense Forces. Cabinet Secretariat interlocutors tell
Embassy Tokyo that the Tamogami flap and OEF have been
delinked and regardless of the outcome of the civilian
control deliberations, the Anti-Terror bill will be enacted
on November 20.
SCHIEFFER
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: DECL: 11/12/2018
TAGS: MARR PGOV PINR PREL JA
SUBJECT: JAPAN REFUELING MISSION TO CONTINUE, ANTI-TERROR
SPECIAL MEASURES LAW TO PASS ON NOVEMBER 20
REF: TOKYO 3069
Classified By: AMBASSADOR J. THOMAS SCHIEFFER, REASONS 1.4 (B) AND (D)
1. (C) The bill extending the Anti-Terrorism Special Measures
Law will clear the Diet on November 20, according to Embassy
Tokyo contacts in the Diet and Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The Upper House Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee will
vote on the bill on November 18 and then send it to an Upper
House plenary session on the 19th, where it is expected to be
rejected and returned to the Lower House. The Lower House,
using its power to override the rejection, will approve the
bill in a plenary session on November 20. This approval will
extend the refueling law authorizing the Maritime
Self-Defense Forces Indian Ocean refueling mission for one
year beyond its current January 15, 2009 expiration.
2. (C) Following the October 31 ouster of former AIR Self
Defense FORCE Chief of Staff Toshio Tamogami (reftel),and
his subsequent, unapologetic November 11 Diet testimony,
Japanese government officials had predicted a multi-week
delay in the passage of the Anti-Terror bill. Prime Minister
Aso's public remarks calling Tamogami's essay "extremely
inappropriate" and his promise to implement educational
programs on WWII that are in line with Japanese government
views, blunted criticism. The bill's more
rapid-than-expected passage through the Upper House has also
been aided by Aso's participation in November 13
opposition-led deliberations on civilian control of the
Self-Defense Forces. Cabinet Secretariat interlocutors tell
Embassy Tokyo that the Tamogami flap and OEF have been
delinked and regardless of the outcome of the civilian
control deliberations, the Anti-Terror bill will be enacted
on November 20.
SCHIEFFER