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From: Lee 
Subject: USA spying on Japan.
Message-ID: <199510171705.NAA04672@minerva.cis.yale.edu>
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 95 17:05:36 0400

   What do you all think of this story in relation to
the possible Japan connection to the Oklahoma City
bombing?

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by Steven L. Herman
American Reporter Japan Correspondent
Tokyo
spying
10/16/95
583/$5.83

            JAPAN FINALLY REACTS TO REPORTS OF U.S. SPYING
                          by Steven L. Herman
                 American Reporter Japan Correspondent

        TOKYO -- Japan on Monday was forced to go public with its
private concerns that its chief military ally and econoic rival is
spying on it.
         "If it's true, it's a grave matter that might seriously
affect our diplomatic relations," deputy chief Cabinet secretary
Hiroyuki Sonoda said one day after a New York Times report that the
U.S. Central Intelligence Agency and National Security Agency bugged
conversations between Japanese negotiators and automakers during this
year's trade talks with the United States held in Geneva.
        A "sense of shock is spreading among the Japanese trade
negotiators," according to the Tokyo Broadcasting System which
reported the story on it 6 p.m. newscast on Monday.
        Also apparently taken aback by the alleged spying are the
Japanese automakers.
        "Is that possible? I can't believe it," a Toyota official said
on hearing the news.
        For Japan's seasoned bureaucrats, however, it is old news.
        For several years reports have circulated that the United
States was increasingly targeting government agencies and companies
here to combat the massive trade deficit with Tokyo.
        Chief Cabinet Secretary Koken Nosaka, the government's top
spokesman, says Japan will demand a response from the Clinton
administration.
        Trade Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto, one of the alleged spy
targets in Geneva, says he's "not very happy" with the report but that
there would probably be no way to confirm it.  But his boss, Prime
Minister Tomiichi Murayama brushed off serious concerns about the
matter, saying that any eavesdropping by the Americans would not have
made a difference in the outcome of the talks.
        Japanese government sources say they don't expect officials
here to turn this into a major diplomatic row because that might
prompt leaks from Washington about the extensive economic spying that
Japanese businesses and government agencies conduct in Washington.
        The American Reporter has learned of FBI investigations in Los
Angeles and San Francisco focusing on Japanese trade ministry and
JETRO (Japan External Trade Organization officials posted there who
are suspected of conducting economic espionage.
        "This is a routine part of the jobs of such Japanese posted in
the States," says an American woman who worked for one of the Japanese
agenices in California and who was questioned by the FBI about the
suspicious activities of her boss.
        High on the target list for Japanese spies in North America
are high-tech firms in northern California's Silicon Valley and U.S.
government-funded laboratories in California and New Mexico where
classified research is conducted, according to American intelligence
sources.
        One former high-ranking Japanese diplomat is cautioning Tokyo
not to get too worked up about the Times story.
        "I'm wondering why so much is being made of this," says Yukio
Okamoto, who once held the number two post in the Foreign Ministry's
North American section. "This eavesdropping is quite natural."
        The Tokyo Broadcasting System, in its Monday evening report,
also interviewed a security expert who suggested that the Foreign
Ministry was partly to blame for any leaks because it is utilizing
less than state-of-the-art scrambling equipment for its supposedly
secure communications.

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        (Steve Herman is based in Tokyo for The
American Reporter.)


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