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LOOSE LIPS (1): MSDF member tweets about N. Korea and 'disappears'

BY YASUYUKI SASAKI STAFF WRITER

2013/01/08

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photoA tweet by a member of the Maritime Self-Defense Force says that he will be off to Hiroshima the day after tomorrow. Shown in the backdrop is an MSDF escort vessel in Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture. Some parts of the photo have been altered. (Shiro Nishihata)

Editor's note: Yasuyuki Sasaki, a staff writer in the city news department of The Asahi Shimbun, interviewed an officer at the Maritime Self-Defense Force about tweets that were deemed to be posted by one of its personnel.

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