Japan's top Army official resigns in spy scandal

Japan's top Army official resigned Monday and 11 senior defense officials were disciplined in connection with the country's biggest peacetime spy scandal. Lt. Gen. Shigeto Nagano, the Army chief of staff, stepped down to take responsibility for the affair, involving a retired major general who is alleged to have passed secrets to Moscow.

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