Japan's top Army official resigns in spy scandal

By With Analysis from Monitor Correspondents around the world; Edited by Ruth Walker

January 29, 1980

Tokyo

Japan's top Army official resigned Monday and 11 senior defense officials were disciplined in connection with the country's biggest peacetime spy scandal. Lt. Gen. Shigeto Nagano, the Army chief of staff, stepped down to take responsibility for the affair, involving a retired major general who is alleged to have passed secrets to Moscow.