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UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 09 TOKYO 002176
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DEPT FOR E, P, EB, EAP/J, EAP/P, EAP/PD, PA;
WHITE HOUSE/NSC/NEC; JUSTICE FOR STU CHEMTOB IN ANTI-TRUST
DIVISION; TREASURY/OASIA/IMI/JAPAN; DEPT PASS USTR/PUBLIC AFFAIRS
OFFICE; SECDEF FOR JCS-J-5/JAPAN,
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ADVISOR; CINCPAC FLT/PA/ COMNAVFORJAPAN/PA.
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA
SUBJECT: JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 04/21/06
Index:
1) Top headlines
2) Editorials
3) Prime Minister's daily schedule
Defense issues:
4) JDA chief Nukaga leaves for Washington today to discuss Guam
relocation issue
5) US proposes that cost of relocating Marines to Guam be
spread out over 5 years
6) MSDF dispatch to Indian Ocean extended another half year
Maritime standoff with South Korea:
7) Vice Foreign Minister Yachi headed for Seoul today to seek
negotiated solution to standoff with ROK over maritime survey in
EEZ
8) Direct negotiations between Japan, South Korea to avoid
turmoil, save face
9) Government probing South Korea's attitude by sending Yachi
to Seoul to negotiate maritime standoff
10) Little leeway seen in Seoul's stance on Japan's maritime
survey with public emotions high and election coming
11) US will not get involved in Japan-ROK maritime dispute:
Senior official
China connection:
12) SDF fighters scrambled against Chinese jets over 200 times
last year, eight times more than before
13) Chinese embassy in Tokyo refuses to allow police to question
consular officers over alleged illegal-labor scam
14) Speculation that Prime Minister Koizumi may visit Yasukuni
Shrine as major festival there starts today
15) Administrative reform promotion bill clears Lower House;
Sluggish deliberations; Three key points
Articles:
1) TOP HEADLINES
Asahi:
FTS report calls for level playing ground with requests, such as
easing access to mail delivery business and opening mail delivery
networks to other companies
Mainichi:
Former architect Aneha found to have asked company to which he
lent his name to change construction data inspection firm to
eHomes, availing himself of sloppy inspection system
Yomiuri:
US-China summit: US president calls on China to exercise
influence on Pyongyang; Reform of yuan also urged
Nihon Keizai:
Regulation on issuance of new stocks to be strengthened
Sankei:
US-China summit; No progress over Iran, trade issues; China calls
on US to be flexible toward Pyongyang
TOKYO 00002176 002 OF 009
Tokyo Shimbun:
Kimura Construction Co. suspected of conducting window-dressing
despite debts exceeding assets by 1.2 billion yen in financial
statement for June 2005 term
2) EDITORIALS
Asahi:
(1) Academic survey: Is it necessary to test all students?
(2) Government assets: There is no panacea for fiscal
reconstruction
Mainichi:
(1) Administrative Reform Promotion legislation clears Lower
House; We want to hear exchanges of views between Prime Minister
Koizumi and opposition DPJ president Ozawa
(2) Survey around Takeshima (Dokdo): No need to rush to name
ocean bed
Yomiuri:
(1) Takeshima (Dokdo) survey: Both countries should calmly find
way to solve issue
(2) Iran's nuclear development: It is impossible to settle issue
diplomatically without unity
Nihon Keizai:
(1) Transport safety and passengers' peace of mind should be
secured, based on basic rules
(2) What will come after asbestos compensation by Kubota?
Sankei:
(1) G-7: Rebuilding the system for international cooperation
(2) Exhibiting debris from JAL crash: Make use of lessons from
Osutaka
Tokyo Shimbun:
(1) Administrative reform promotion bill: More discussion needed
(2) Organ transplant law: Will of donors should be valued
3) Prime Minister's Official Residence (Kantei)
Prime Minister's schedule, April 20
NIHON KEIZAI (Page 2) (Full)
April 21, 2006
09:34
Arrived at Kantei.
11:05
Joined a program sponsored by science producer Denjirosan
Yonemura at the Science Museum
11:37
Arrived at Kantei.
13:43
Attended a Lower House plenary session.
13:55
Arrived at Kantei.
TOKYO 00002176 003 OF 009
16:00
Met Foreign Ministry European Affairs Bureau Director General
Harada and African Affairs Bureau Deputy Director General Otabe.
Later, attended a Security Council meeting.
17:14
Met JDA Director General Nukaga. Met Latvian Prime Minister
Kalvitis.
18:59
Returned to his official residence.
4) Defense chief to visit US over Guam relocation
ASAHI (Page 1) (Full)
April 21, 2006
Defense Agency Director-General Nukaga will leave Japan today to
visit the United States to meet with US Secretary of Defense
Rumsfeld and search for common ground over the pending issue of
sharing the cost of moving US Marines from Okinawa to Guam in the
process of realigning US forces in Japan. The Pentagon estimates
the total cost of Marine relocation to Guam at 10 billion
dollars, or approximately 1.18 trillion yen, and the US
government has asked Japan to cover 75% of that cost. The
Japanese government has put forward the idea of loan-based
funding of about 3 billion dollars. The two governments'
respective standpoints remain wide apart, so Nukaga will seek to
bridge the gap with his US counterpart.
Nukaga met with Prime Minister Koizumi at his office yesterday
evening and reported his plan to visit to the United States. "We
have held talks in an energetic manner but are now in the final
phase, so it's important that those in a responsible position
hold talks," Nukaga quoted Koizumi as telling him.
However, Nukaga told reporters that he did not know if he could
reach an agreement with his US counterpart on cost sharing. "I'm
not going there just because we've made some arrangements," he
added.
Nukaga is scheduled to arrive in Washington on the evening of
April 21, or tomorrow morning, Japan time. He will meet with
Rumsfeld that night or on the morning of April 22. US Ambassador
to Japan Schieffer is also expected to attend their meeting.
Nukaga met with Schieffer yesterday.
Nukaga will ask the US government to review its estimate of the
total cost and its request for Japan's share. In addition, Nukaga
will also tell his US counterpart that the Japanese government is
also considering direct spending from state coffers in an aim to
reach an agreement with the US government.
5) US asks Japan to pay Guam cost over five years; JDA chief to
leave for US today
NIHON KEIZAI (Page 1) (Full)
April 21, 2006
The US has asked Japan to pay over five years 7.5 billion dollars
of the 10 million dollars estimated cost of transferring Okinawa-
TOKYO 00002176 004 OF 009
based Marines to Guam, according to informed sources yesterday.
Defense Agency Director-General Fukushiro Nukaga will leave Japan
today for a three-day visit to the US to meet US Defense
Secretary Rumsfeld and other officials in Washington. In a
SIPDIS
meeting with Rumsfeld, he will call for a reduction in the
estimated cost needed for US force realignment in Japan.
Nukaga is set to tell Rumsfeld that Japan estimates the cost for
realigning bases in Japan, including the planned relocation of
the US Marine Corps Futenma Air Station, at about 2.5 trillion
yen. Based on this calculation, he will convey Japan's desire to
hold down its total spending for the entire realignment package
to less than 3 trillion yen. Washington and Tokyo are arranging
for a Japan-US defense summit on April 22.
6) Government to extend MSDF deployment in Indian Ocean for
another six months
NIHON KEIZAI (Page 2) (Full)
April 21, 2006
In a Security Council meeting yesterday, the government decided
to change its basic plan on the dispatch of Maritime Self-Defense
Force to the Indian Ocean under the Antiterrorism Special
Measures Law and extend the dispatch for another six months
through Nov. 1. The change of the plan will be approved at a
cabinet meeting today.
7) Vice Foreign Minister Yachi visits South Korea today to seek a
breakthrough
ASAHI (Page 1) (Excerpts)
April 21, 2006
The Japanese government decided yesterday to dispatch
Administrative Vice Foreign Minister Shotaro Yachi to Seoul today
in an attempt to find a diplomatic breakthrough in the standoff
between Japan and South Korea over Japan's planned maritime
survey in Japan's exclusive economic zone (EEZ), including the
area around a group of disputed islets in the Sea of Japan
(Takeshima in Japanese and Dokdo in Korean), claimed by both the
Japanese and South Korean governments. Seoul had demanded that
Japan scrap its plan, while Tokyo has proposed that South Korea
end its efforts to name or rename geographical features in the
disputed area in Korean. Two Japan Coast Guard survey ships
remain on standby near a port in Tottori Prefecture until a
conclusion is made in the negotiations.
8) Vice foreign minister off to Seoul to avert clash over marine
survey around disputed Takeshima (Dokdo) islands
YOMIURI (Page 2) (Excerpts)
April 21, 2006
In an effort to reach a diplomatic settlement on the standoff
between Japan and South Korea over Japan's plan to conduct a
maritime survey near the waters around Takeshima (Dokdo),
avoiding a clash between Japanese and South Korean ships, the
government has decided to send to Seoul Administrative Vice
Foreign Minister Shotaro Yachi.
Yachi was initially scheduled to meet on April 20 with South
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Korean Ambassador to Japan Ra Jong Yil in Tokyo. He instead has
determined that in order to help South Korea save face and to
show Japan's good faith it is better to negotiate with South
Korean Foreign Affairs and Trade Minister Ban Kim Moon, so that
he will be able to demonstrate Japan's diplomatic efforts for a
resolution of the issue.
Yachi is expected meet with Kim and First Vice Minister Yu Myong
Hwang. Behind-the-scenes talks between Japan and South Korea are
now being carried out by senior diplomatic officials. "It would
be good not to make a winner and a loser in the negotiations," a
source said. The two sides are looking for a breakthrough that
would allow them to save face.
Tokyo and Seoul reportedly are negotiating on specific points:
Japan should not carry out its maritime survey during the
negotiations, and South Korea should propose at an appropriate
time the naming of geographical features in the disputed area in
Korea, giving up on its plan to propose it to an international
conference in June.
9) Row over Takeshima survey: Vice foreign minister to visit ROK,
to take a hard and soft approach to look into how Seoul will
respond
NIHON KEIZAI (Page 2) (Excerpts)
April 21, 2006
The government's decision to send Vice Foreign Minister Shotaro
Yachi to South Korea is an unusual development. Behind this
decision is the government's intention to ease growing tensions
over Japan's plan to conduct a marine survey in the waters around
Takeshima (Dokdo), a group of islets claimed by both Japan and
South Korea. Yachi is likely to again convey to South Korea
Japan's policy of canceling the planned survey if South Korea
gives up on its plan to propose using Korean names for undersea
locations at an upcoming international conference on marine
geography names. But South Korea appears unwilling to budge from
its current position. Whether Japan can resolve the standoff with
South Korea remains to be seen.
"We will aim for an amicable solution. We are continuing
diplomatic efforts and contacts at various levels of officials."
This remark came from Senior Vice Foreign Minister Katsutoshi
Kaneda at a press briefing yesterday. Kaneda repeated the words
"an amicable solution" four times in reference to the row over
Japan's survey plan, but the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA)
does not have any idea how to settle the row with South Korea.
MOFA's idea is for both sides to throw away their respective
plans - Japan's plan for a marine survey and South Korea's plan
for proposing Korean names for undersea locations, but Seoul has
shown no signs of agreeing.
Tokyo will demonstrate its sincerity by sending Yachi to Seoul
and expects it to soften its attitude. But it is unlikely that
things will go as Japan expects, because the dispatch of the vice
minister to South Korea has come belatedly as a last resort,
according to many observers.
Under a three-stage scenario designed to deal with the row with
South Korea, as a first approach, Tokyo will send the vice
minister to South Korea and look for a point of compromise.
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Reportedly, some in the South Korean government point out that if
Japan acts first by declaring its cancellation of the survey, it
will then be easier for South Korea to withdraw the proposal it
plans to present at the international conference."
10) Seoul has little room for compromise, given national
sentiment ahead of unified local elections
NIHON KEIZAI (Page 2) (Full)
April 21, 2006
By Hiroshi Minegishi, Seoul
South Korea remains defiant toward Japan, but it is looking for
ways at the same time to resolve the row with Japan with
diplomatic efforts. Behind this dual approach is the calculation
that it would be disadvantageous to South Korea if the issue of
sovereignty over Takeshima (Dokdo in Korean), a group of islets
now under de facto South Korean control, drew a lot of attention
and became an international issue, ratcheting up tensions between
Japan and South Korea. But compromise options available to the
South Korean government are very limited, because the issue is
linked to territory and history, to which the general public
reacts sensitively, and given the unified local elections slated
for late May.
The South Korean government has made clear its hard-line
position, conveying to United Nations Secretary General Annan its
decision not to follow the proceedings for dispute resolution
under the auspices of international legal organizations. However,
its real intention is to try to settle the issue through
diplomacy. Evidence of this is found in Seoul's acceptance of a
visit to South Korea by Vice Foreign Minister Yachi.
South Korea has no intention to depart from its basic stance, but
an idea being considered there is to postpone proposing name
changes for underwater geographical features at an upcoming
international conference and thereby push Japan to cancel its
survey plan. Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Ban Ki Moon
yesterday steered clear of mentioning a specific time when his
country would present a proposal on name changes to the
international conference, saying only, "We will do so at a proper
time."
The South Korean government has reacted strongly to this issue.
One reason is because Japan's planned marine survey concerns
sovereignty, and more importantly, such a survey is associated
with the history of humiliation Koreans suffered during Japan's
colonial rule. Japan put Takeshima in Shimane Prefecture in 1905,
when Japan took away Korea's power to conduct independent
diplomacy. Reportedly, Takeshima is viewed by South Koreans as
being the beginning of the ruin of their country.
In addition, there was an armed clash between Japan and Korea in
1875, when the Japanese government sent vessels to the coast of
Kanghwado in the name of marine surveys. South Koreans still
remember that this clash later forced Korea to conclude the
Kanghwado Treaty, which granted Japan extraterritorial rights.
This chain of distrust of Japan has made it more difficult for
South Korea to reach a settlement with Japan.
11) US will not intervene in Tokyo-Seoul dispute
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ASAHI (Page 3) (Full)
April 21, 2006
Kei Ukai in Washington, Yusaku Yamane in Beijing
A standoff is intensifying between Japan and South Korea over a
Japanese plan to survey the seabed near disputed islets
(Takeshima in Japanese and Dokdo in Korean). Commenting on the
standoff, a ranking US government official stated on April 19,
"We have urged the two governments to restrain their actions for
a peaceful settlement." The official indicated that Washington
had no intention to intervene in the bilateral issue, saying,
"Are position is that we will not get involved in territorial
disputes."
Meanwhile, Chinese Foreign Ministry Press Bureau deputy chief Qin
Gang stated yesterday: "We hope that South Korea and Japan will
deal appropriately with the issue through talks."
12) ASDF scrambles 8 times more often against Chinese aircraft
over past year
NIHON KEIZAI (Page 2) (Full)
April 21, 2006
Air Self-Defense Force (ASDF) fighter jets made a total of 229
scrambles over the past fiscal year of 2005 in response to planes
approaching Japan's airspace, the Defense Agency said yesterday.
The figure is over 60% greater than that in the preceding fiscal
year and exceeded 200 for the first time in seven years. There
was a substantial increase in the number of scrambles against
Chinese planes, the agency explained. "We'll continue to watch
with serious concern," a Joint Staff Office source said.
According to the Defense Agency's estimated statistics, those 229
scrambles of ASDF fighter jets included 116 against Russian
planes and 107 against Chinese planes. In fiscal 2004, the ASDF
scrambled 13 times against Chinese planes. These stats show that
the ASDF scrambled eight times more often against Chinese planes
over the past fiscal year. ASDF fighters scrambled twice against
Taiwanese planes.
The Defense Agency has not revealed anything in detail about the
types of those Chinese aircraft or their activities. In its
analysis, however, the agency recounted that China has been
developing gas fields in the East China Sea and that there were
probably many more intelligence-gathering flights. The agency is
increasingly alert.
There was an airspace violation on Jan. 25, when a Russian plane
flew over the island of Rebun in Hokkaido.
13) Chinese Embassy declines police request to question diplomats
over visa scam
MAINICHI (Page 28) (Full)
April 21, 2006
The Chinese Embassy declined the Metropolitan Police Department's
(MPD) request to question two diplomats, including a counselor
(51) at the embassy, over their relations with Chinese
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businessman Zhang Jin (51), who has been indicted on charges of
illegally obtaining residential status for another man in
violation of the Immigration Control Law. The MPD has seized a
memo indicating that the counselor was instructing Zhang to do
more for the China-Taiwan reunification movement. The MPD intends
to ask again that they be made available for questioning.
The MPD asked the Foreign Ministry on April 13 to arrange for the
counselor and a senior commerce section member to appear at the
MPD to answer questions about their ties with Zhang, setting
April 20 as a deadline for them to comply.
Under the International Convention, diplomats are granted
immunity from the host nation's laws. A Chinese Embassy spokesman
said: "There is no need to comply with the request under the
International Convention." He added: "It is not unusual for
Chinese Embassy staff to contact Chinese in Japan."
14) Speculation rife on whether prime minister will visit
Yasukuni Shrine's spring festival, which starts today
MAINICHI (Page 3) (Excerpts)
April 21, 2006
In view of the start of the spring festival at Yasukuni Shrine
today, there is speculation in the government and ruling parties
as to whether Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi will visit the
shrine. The prime minister visited Yasukuni on the first day of
the festival in 2002. However, in the major opposition Democratic
Party of Japan (Minshuto or DPJ), Ichiro Ozawa, who is critical
of the prime minister's visit to the shrine, has recently come
into office as president of the party. The by-election in the
Lower House Chiba No. 7 Constituency, which will play a role in
determining the future political situation, will take place on
April 23. Japan's relations with China and South Korea are
increasingly strained. There is, therefore, strong speculation
that the prime minister will not visit Yasukuni during the spring
festival. However, if he does so, it is bound to have a major
impact both inside and outside Japan.
A New Komeito senior official strongly warned against a visit to
Yasukuni, noting: "If the prime minister visits the shrine, the
reaction of Beijing and Seoul will definitely become even
stronger. It will be playing right into the hands of Mr. Ozawa.
Should that occur, the focus of confrontation between the LDP and
the DPJ will become clearer, having a clear impact on the Chiba
by-election." Because of this, the dominant view in the
government and the ruling camp is that the prime minister will
not visit Yasukuni Shrine.
15) Administrative reform promotion bill clears Lower House;
Sluggish deliberations; Three key points: (1) Can administrative
expenses be constrained? (2) What is simple government? and (3)
What are public services?
ASAHI (Page 4) (Excerpts)
April 21, 2006
The current Diet session has been termed the administrative Diet
session, but the ruling and opposition parties are arguing at
cross-purposes on reform competition. Deliberations on the
administrative reform promotion bill, which cleared the Lower
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House yesterday, were sluggish due to the fake e-mail fiasco
involving the major opposition party Democratic Party of Japan
(Minshuto or DPJ) and the replacement of its president. However,
three major key points have emerged through discussions on the
scale and role of administration. The focus of deliberations
starting next week will likely be on to what extent these points
can be worked out.
Lawmakers remained skeptical about the efficacy of constraints on
administrative spending, the main objective of the legislation.
The bill included a policy of slashing the net number of national
government employees by more than 5% over five years as a means
to trim total personnel expenses. However, at the outset of the
deliberations, Prime Minister Koizumi made this reply: "The
proposed cut in the number of national government employees does
not mean that each government agency should reduce their staff
uniformly." A number of ruling party lawmakers questioned
concerned cabinet ministers in an attempt to press them to
protect certain areas.
DPJ lawmakers intensively pursued the issue of negotiated
contracts for public works. Yosuke Kondo, who took the podium to
offer a counterargument during yesterday's Lower House plenary
session criticized the practice, "Concluding such a form of
contracts is in principle allowed as exceptions. However,
negotiated contracts, in fact, account for 70% of the entire
contract cases."
The prime minister has ordered various cabinet ministers to
review negotiated contracts in their ministries this month.
Encouraged by this order, the DPJ is geared up to pursue the
issue, including the collusive ties between local instruments of
government and public corporations that accept retired senior
bureaucrats.
SCHIEFFER