British officials believed Japan would covertly monitor their discussions and activities at the Group of Seven summit in Tokyo in 1979, according to recently declassified documents. Security experts warned the Japanese could be recording information via the equipment supplied to the British delegation's office, located on the grounds of the…
British officials believed Japan would covertly monitor their discussions and activities at the Group of Seven summit in Tokyo in 1979, according to recently declassified documents.
hugo dobson is professor ofjapan s international relations at the university of sheffield. he gave his assessment of the changes to security since shinzo abe s assassination. i think one thing to highlight here is that, withinjapan, there was a debate in the aftermath of the assassination. the police surgeon she did admit that mistakes were made. one failure was that it is always going to be difficult to mitigate against
but i think this is going to make many, many people uneasyjust about the parallels as well. shinzo abe was also giving a political speech and that was what mr kishida was trying to do. since the assassination of shinzo abe, there has been heightened security around politicians, but also a heightened degree of nervousness, and i think today s incident is just going to increase that a lot further. hugo dobson is professor ofjapan s international relations at the university of sheffield. he gave his assessment of the changes to security since shinzo abe s assassination. one thing to highlight here is that withinjapan, there was a debate in the aftermath of prime minister abe s assassination. the national police agency did admit mistakes were made and a review was instigated. and i think one failure that was identified was that prime minister abe was not evacuated from the scene as quickly as should have been the case. two shots were fired.