in Japan appeared for the first time on April 30; news about the five-axis violation appeared in Japan for the first time on June 18. The statute of limitations on both violations had expired. The government of Japan knew the details by the end of December 1985, and allowed the statute of limitations to lapse. The Japanese government conferred with William C. Triplett, a former CIA analyst, in the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs in July 1987. Triplett asked Kumagai to testify at a United States congressional hearing, but he refused. Fearing KGB retaliation, he published a book on January 30, 1988. Books Nonfiction Mosukuwa yo, saraba: Kokomu ihan jiken no haikei (Goodbye, Moscow: The Background of the Toshiba–Kongsberg Scandal, モスクワよ、さらば―ココム違反事件の背景, Bungeishunjū, January 30, 1988), . Fiction Saigo no tobosha (最後の逃亡者, November 1993), . It won the 1993 . Hikyo kara no kyohakusya (秘境からの脅迫者, October 1995), . Saigo no tobosha (最後の逃亡者, January 1997), . Erumitaju no nezumi (エルミタージュの鼠, July 1997), . Roshia mokushiroku (ロシア黙示録, July 2002), . Oomichi syonen monokatari (尾道少年物語, August 2008), . See also Cavitation Sonar SOSUS John Anthony Walker References External links 1936 births Living people 20th-century Japanese male writers 21st-century Japanese writers Japanese mystery writers Japanese non-fiction writers People from Onomichi, Hiroshima Tokyo University of Foreign Studies alumni Japanese whistleblowers Writers from Hiroshima Prefecture Male non-fiction writers