August 16, 2007: Last month, the United States, fearing Japan was unable to keep American technology secrets, halted the shipment of parts needed to upgrade the Aegis radar in the Japanese destroyer Kongo. The upgrade would make the Kongo capable of firing U.S. anti-missile missiles. It all began last March, when it was discovered that details of the U.S. Aegis naval air defense system have been copied and passed around a Japanese Navy school (the First Service School in Etajima.) Japan has always been strict about American military technology it has been entrusted with. But the current scandal apparently goes back nearly ten years. In 1998, an instructor at the First Service School prepared a CDROM disk of instructional material, and put a lot of classified material on it.
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