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Ishiba to punish some 80 deputies over collision, scandals

Defense Minister Shigeru Ishiba is set to punish the top defense bureaucrat, the Maritime Self-Defense Force chief and some 80 other people on Friday for a series of MSDF-related incidents since last year including a destroyer-trawler collision and the leakage of information about the Aegis radar system, ministry sources said.

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