Prime Minister Abe apologizes over Japan Self-Defense Forces' daily log issue

April 9, 2018, Tokyo, Japan - Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is once again in political hot water since one scandal after another keeps Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is once again in political hot water since one scandal after another keeps haunting his administration as Abe faces the oppositions in a Diet upper house meeting in Tokyo on Monday, April 9, 2018. Now the Defense Ministry has "discovered" more than 14,000 pages of Ground Self-Defense Force's daily log, kept during its Iraq deployment Now the Defense Ministry has "discovered" more than 14,000 pages of Ground Self-Defense Force's daily log, kept during its Iraq deployment between 2004 to 2006, that were previously described as nonexistent, a further embarrassment for the government still reeling from a separate document. Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera is in background.(Photo by Natsuki Sakai/AFLO) AYF -mis-