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Watching Them Grow

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Wikileaks revealed on July 31 that the US National Security Agency spied on Japanese companies, senior government officials, governmental advisors and even Premier Shinzo Abe at least from September 2006 to September 2007.

Kazuyuki Hamada, an independent member of the House of Councillors, said the latest disclosures can greatly undermine trust in Shinzo Abe's government amid his attempts to boost Japan’s ties with the United States.

"The fact that at this extremely important stage for the development of Japanese-US relations, this scandal can greatly undermine trust in the Abe government," Hamada said.

Shigeki Hakamada, a famous political analyst and teacher at Aoyama Gakuin University, compared latest scandal with the similar scandal which recently erupted in Germany.

"In Germany, it was a real scandal but at the same time that was a show. The US-German ties have stayed the same. Thus, I think that if the WikiLeaks’ revelations turn out to be true the ties between Washington and Tokyo would not be affected," Hakamada said.

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