Senior leaders of the Japanese Self-Defense Forces have explained recent scandals in which 218 people were punished as having been caused by the SDF's "organizational culture."Ryo Sakai, the chief of staff of the Maritime Self-Defense Force, the service at the center of the scandals with revelations of fraud on an unprecedented scale, has resigned from his post, explaining that the organization was "structured in a way that it turned a blind eye to the fraud."The roots of the problems with the SDF's organizational culture run deep. Simply punishing a large number of people, or replacing the…READ FULL ARTICLE
