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Implausible Denial: Japanese Court Rules on Secret US-Japan Pact Over the Return of Okinawa

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

David McNeill
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A common perception about Japan's justice system is the higher up the court the more conservative the ruling. The most recent decision by the Tokyo High Court in a suit demanding the release of documents proving Japan's secret accord with the US over the 1972 Okinawa reversion did nothing to challenge that cliché. But it did expose the radical legal summersaults required to keep the full truth from seeping out.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 9 , Issue 41 , October 2011 , e2
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