Defense Director General's "Lecture" on the Defense of Japan
Defense Minister Tanaka at the Budget Committee of the House of Representatives
February 3, 2012, Tokyo, Japan - Japan's Defense Minister Naoki Tanaka speaks during a Diet lower house Budget Committee meeting in Tokyo on Friday, February 3, 2012.
Tanaka was caught in a crossfire from the opposition camp when a senior Defense Ministry official has come under fire for encouraging his subordinates to Tanaka was caught in a crossfire from the opposition camp when a senior Defense Ministry official has come under fire for encouraging his subordinates to vote in the upcoming mayoral election in Ginowan, Okinawa Prefecture, which hosts the U.S. Marine Corps' Air Station in Futennma. /AFLO) AYF-mis-