MSDF Members w/ Non-Japanese Spouses Lose Security Clearances

I thought I might lose my security clearance when I married my Japanese wife. I didn't.

But…had she worked for the Japanese Maritime Self Defense Force, she would have lost hers…at least now she would have.

There has been a few leaks of late of MSDF workers with classified information clearnances and wives who are not Japanese….one a Chinese national.

As a result, the Ministry of Defense has decided to transfer those members with foreign spouses out of departments that handl highly classified information.

It was SDF policy to never allow such members to have clearance in the first place, but the policy was never fully implemented. It will be now…especially since the commander of U.S. forces

in Japan has come down on America's best friend by saying a leak of info related to ships with Aegis radar technology is "a very serious problem" and that he has strong reservations about the SDF protection of information.

But do only foreign spouses pose a threat?

Isn't there some serious discrimination going on here?

The Ministry of Defense is moving people as part of 'regular personnel reshuffling' it says.

Yeah, right?

Do you think a person should lose their security clearance because they have a foreign spouse?