Demand Explanation for US Surveillance of Japan

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http://watchingamerica.com/News/225857/demand-explanation-for-us-surveillance-of-japan/

Japan offers an enormous 'sympathy budget' to the U.S. and is considered its most generous ally. If Japan won’t even protest, then it has no choice but to be viewed by the U.S. as a vassal state.

Demand Explanation for US Surveillance of Japan
Okinawa Times, Japan
By Editorial
Translated By Stephanie Sanders
7 November 2013
Edited by Gillian Palmer

We are seeing a dark facet of the United States. Cases of wiretapping by the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) have been exposed one after another.

One of the NSA’s overseas sites is in Japan; it was discovered that Japan has also been a target of wiretapping. It is said that the NSA’s base of operations is located within a U.S. military base or diplomatic mission.

The U.S. newspaper The New York Times covered the story. The news report is based on classified documents obtained from Snowden, a person of interest and the former employee of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), who was granted political asylum by Russia. “It spies routinely on friends as well as foes,” The New York Times reports of the NSA’s activities. The objective was to achieve an “economic advantage” over Japan and Brazil and a “diplomatic advantage” over such allies as France and Germany.

Japan should consider information related to the negotiations of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP), which is proceeding behind closed doors and not yet announced to the public, as having become target to eavesdropping as well.