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UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 10 TOKYO 005243 
 
SIPDIS 
 
SIPDIS 
 
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, 
DASD/ISA/EAPR/JAPAN; DEPT PASS ELECTRONICALLY TO USDA 
FAS/ITP FOR SCHROETER; PACOM HONOLULU FOR PUBLIC DIPLOMACY ADVISOR; 
CINCPAC FLT/PA/ COMNAVFORJAPAN/PA. 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA
SUBJECT:  DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 09/12/06 
 
 
INDEX: 
 
(1) Election campaign pamphlet provided by the Shinzo Abe Support 
Team 
 
(2) Election campaign pamphlet issued by the Taro Aso campaign 
headquarters 
 
(3) Editorial: Revision of Antimonopoly Law - Easing severe 
punishment problematic 
 
(4) Gov't to remove Libya from embargo list 
 
(5) Editorial: 5 years after 9-11- A day to renew antiterror 
resolve 
 
(6) US society still shaken five years after 9/11 attacks: Constant 
crackdowns put Muslims in great fear; Long detention without 
evidence under criticism from ex-FBI officer 
 
ARTICLES: 
 
(1) Election campaign pamphlet provided by the Shinzo Abe Support 
Team 
 
Toward a Beautiful Country: Shinzo Abe's policy platform 
 
Basic direction of Abe administration 
 
Build a country that will cherish culture, traditions, nature, and 
history 
-- Establish a Constitution befitting Japan that will open a new 
age. 
-- Bring about an open conservatism. 
-- Cherish our historical heritage, landscape, and traditional 
culture. 
-- Restore family values and regional warmth. 
 
A country of freedom and discipline 
-- Basically reform the education system. 
-- Achieve private sector independence by breaking away from the 
tendency to excessively rely on public aid. 
-- Give peace of mind and safety to the people. 
 
A country walking down road of new growth and prosperity with 
innovation 
-- No future without growth. 
-- Achieve economic growth through innovation. 
-- Demonstrate the ability to set high standards and the country's 
presence in the international community. 
 
An open country with leadership that is trusted, respected, and 
loved by the world 
-- Play up attractiveness of Japan to the world. 
-- Make contributions actively by cashing in on Japan's strong 
points. 
-- Foster people who can make great achievements and make 
contributions in the international community. 
 
Concrete policies 
 
1. Establishing political leadership 
 
 
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1) For speedy and accurate decision making that can meet changing 
times, implement the following reforms to strengthen the political 
leadership and establish a top-down system led by the Prime 
Minister's Official Residence (Kantei): 
-- The cabinet and the ruling coalition must combine their wisdoms 
and insights to establish a Kantei-led political leadership with 
elected politicians redefining their role as lawmakers responsible 
for decision-making and the role of bureaucrats. 
-- Strengthen the teamwork among ministers, senior vice ministers, 
and parliamentary secretaries. 
 
2) Fundamentally reform or realign administrative organs to fit the 
21st century. 
 
3) Reduce the number of civil servants, introduce a merit system, or 
other means to reform the civil servant system, and combine wisdoms 
of the private and public sectors for policymaking. 
 
2. Realizing an open economic society with freedom and discipline 
 
1) Establish a new partnership between the public and private 
sectors. 
-- Pursue a small and efficient government. Fully utilize the 
private sector. 
-- Back up public entities, such as new nonprofit organizations. 
 
2) Invigorate Japanese society with innovation and open society 
 
-- Maintain the vigor of Japanese society with innovation despite 
the declining birthrate. 
-- Improve infrastructure to gather together good people, products, 
and money from around the world. 
-- Come up with an economic strategy to take in Asia's growth. 
-- Improve the productivity of a broad range of industries base on 
innovation. 
-- Strongly support the research and development of cutting-edge 
industries. 
-- Adopt a plan to strategically use the Internet infrastructure 
that would be the most advanced in the world. 
-- Powerfully assist medium and small companies with taxes and 
financing. 
-- Transform agricultural, forestry, fisheries, construction, and 
other industries into strategic industries. 
-- Enhance responsible corporate management and governance. 
-- Beef up the Japanese financial market comparable to London and 
New York. 
-- Actively address global warming. 
 
3) Create a society where anyone can get a second chance 
-- Build a society where efforts are rewarded with no fixed line 
between the winning and losing sides. 
-- Transform Japan into a country with diversified work, learning, 
and lifestyles filled with opportunities. 
-- Actively promote the employment of women and elderly people. 
-- Actively review ways to work that transcend conventional work 
values, such as tele-work. 
 
4) Local vigor essential for state vitality 
-- Promote decentralization and efforts to streamline the 
administration in the process of mapping out a doshu (regional bloc) 
system vision to create strong local areas under the lead of the 
private sector. 
-- Come up with a plan to enhance the strong points of local 
 
TOKYO 00005243  003 OF 010 
 
 
regions. 
-- Promote local reforms further. 
-- Map out a comprehensive plan to capitalize on the beautiful 
land. 
-- Establish a national system to ensure a peaceful public 
livelihood. 
 
5) No growth, no fiscal reconstruction 
-- Restore fiscal health so as not to pass the buck to future 
generations. 
-- In overhauling the nation's revenues and expenditures as a 
package, address national spending reform on a priority basis based 
on economic growth. 
-- Reform the tax system, such as the consumption tax rate and ways 
to redistribute the direct taxes, from a long-term prospective. 
 
3.Realizing a healthy and safe society 
 
1) Create safety nets by using a Japanese social security model. 
-- Comprehensively review the pension, medical, nursing care, and 
social welfare systems to come up with sustainable systems and a 
simple picture depicting a future livelihood. 
- Study introducing a social welfare number system and a unified 
premium collection system. 
- Establish a friendly and easy-to-understand pension system by, for 
instance, notifying projected pension benefits ahead of schedule. 
- Thoroughly reform the Social Security Agency. 
- Improve elective safety nets by upgrading the defined contribution 
pension plan and other means. 
- Integrate the employee pension schemes into one. 
-- Expand healthy life expectancy by using innovation that combines 
the medical frontier strategy and advanced technology. 
-- Promote measures to address a lack of pediatricians and 
obstetricians and gynecologists. 
-- Establish a society where the handicapped can become truly 
independent and take part in society. 
-- Establish a sustainable nursing care system. 
-- Build a society friendly to childrearing. 
 
2) A 100-year educational reform plan 
-- Provide everyone with opportunities to acquire a high scholastic 
ability and standards. 
- Enhance basic programs, such as mathematics, science, and 
languages 
- Improve and strengthen the public education system. 
-- Strengthen the education system at high school, special course 
school, and advanced technical school, to meet social needs. 
-- Increase the international competitiveness of colleges, 
universities, and graduate schools, and promote international 
cooperation. 
-- Realign and strengthen research and development institutions. 
-- Introduce a school and teacher evaluation system. 
-- Improve social experience-oriented school activities. 
 
4. Creating a strong and dependable Japan through an assertive 
diplomacy 
1) Strengthen the Japan-US alliance for the sake of Asia and the 
world. Establish alliance arrangements in which both countries will 
"expend sweat." Strengthen bilateral alliance ties on the economic 
front, as well. 
 
2) Establish firm cooperative relations in an open Asia. 
-- Enhance relations of trust with neighboring countries, including 
 
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China and South Korea. 
 
3) Aim for a settlement of the abduction, nuclear, and missiles 
issues involving North Korea. 
 
4) Spread throughout the world a widening circle of free societies. 
-- Promote a strategic dialogue with countries sharing the same 
values, such as the United States, European nations, Australia, and 
India. 
 
5) Serve as a driving force for global economic consolidation 
-- Promote the WTO system and the concept of an Asia-Pacific 
community by capitalizing on FTAs and EPAs. 
 
6) Establish energy security 
-- Actively contribute to the world in the fields of energy saving 
and global environmental and secure stable energy resources. 
 
7) Become a country that can play a responsible role in the world 
-- Actively join peace-building efforts, such as humanitarian 
assistance and nonproliferation of weapons of mass destruction, and 
developing human resources. 
-- Pursue goals in Japanese diplomacy, such as strategically using 
ODA, protecting the environment, engaging in human rights diplomacy, 
and accepting more foreign students. 
 
8) Reorganize and strengthen the Kantei's diplomatic and security 
functions to make it act as a control tower 
-- Increase the function of intelligence gathering. 
 
5. Party reform: Visions as a responsible political party of a new 
age 
1) Thoroughly utilize the public recruitment and primary systems in 
determining candidates. 
2) Realign and strengthen party organizations across the country. 
3) Come up with strategic measures for new industries, networks, and 
needs. 
4) Use think tanks to map out independent policies. 
 
6. Depart from the postwar regime 
1) Start work on drafting a new Constitution befitting Japan's state 
image of the 21st century. 
2) Aim for a permanent seat on the UN Security Council from a 
perspective of strengthening Japan's capability to setting 
international standards. 
 
(2) Election campaign pamphlet issued by the Taro Aso campaign 
headquarters 
 
Taro Aso: Japan's potential power - challenges of vitality and 
security 
 
My ideal Japan 
 
1. Vibrant aged society 
-- Make an aging society bright and vibrant. 
-- Build a Japan in which people of all ages and both sexes can 
vigorously participate in society and have the drive to work. 
 
2. Society in which people can actually feel affluence 
-- Emerge from being an economic power where people cannot feel the 
affluence in their own lives 
-- Shift priority from quantity to quality and create a nation in 
 
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which the people will love to live 
 
3. Secure society 
-- Erase various destabilizing factors and create a society where 
people will feel at ease 
-- Revitalize communities by strengthening safety nets and social 
security 
 
Basic policies 
 
1. Economic policy - steady economic growth 
-- Aim to attain sustainable, stable economic growth 
-- Assume growth policy that will make use of Japan's full potential 
by such measures as tax incentives 
-- Increase tax rates after the goals of economic recovery and 
spending cuts are achieved 
 
2. Educational reform - reinforcement of basic education 
-- Start compulsory education from infancy and Introduce a 
satisfactory educational system focusing on discipline, as well as 
basic reading and writing skills 
-- Introduce a system that places emphasis on the classroom 
-- Reduce the parental burden and enable parents to choose the 
schools they want their children to attend 
 
3. Foreign policy - proud and vital diplomacy 
-- Seek stability of Asia, with the Japan-US alliance as the 
cornerstone 
-- Take a rational stance toward neighboring countries while 
pursuing common interests with them 
 
Taking a challenger's stance 
 
1. Becoming a country that is a forerunner in challenging the world 
-- Affluence is impossible without challenges 
-- Make Japan a forerunner in the world 
-- Build a vigorous society by making use of the capabilities of 
senior citizens 
 
2. Industries that challenge 
-- Support industries by utilizing technical renovation and 
promoting deregulation 
 
3. Support of local communities' vitality 
-- Revive local communities in order to revive Japan 
-- Support the future vision of each local community 
-- Transfer fiscal resources from the central government to local 
governments to that end 
 
Political reform 
 
1. Simple, warm government 
-- Aim to establish a simple, warm government that can properly meet 
public expectations 
 
2. Decentralization 
-- Promote decentralization while reflecting the opinions of local 
groups 
-- Aim to introduce a regional bloc system 
 
3. Diet reform 
-- Make debates more substantial and increase efficiency in 
deliberations 
 
TOKYO 00005243  006 OF 010 
 
 
 
4. LDP reform 
-- Unify the functions of the cabinet and the party 
-- Strengthen cooperation with local organizations 
 
5. Powerful political leadership 
-- Implement policies under cooperative political leadership 
-- Listen to public views and gather the wisdom of many 
 
(3) Editorial: Revision of Antimonopoly Law - Easing severe 
punishment problematic 
 
TOKYO SHIMBUN (Page 5) (Full) 
September 12, 2006 
 
Efforts to revise the amended Antimonopoly Law (AML), which was put 
into effect only this January, are now being made. The bone of 
contention is a system in which the Fair Trade Commission (FTC) acts 
as both prosecutor and judge regarding surcharges and criminal 
punishments of companies that have violated the law. It is all right 
to discuss the possibility of revising the law, but it is 
problematic if it means easing punishment. 
 
That is because regarding a revision of the amended AML, the 
supplementary provision categorically mentions that consideration 
should be given to the proper form of the surcharge system and 
appeal procedures within two years after enforcement and that 
necessary measures should then be taken. 
 
The Council to Discuss Basic Issues on the AML, a private panel 
consisting of experts that reports to the chief cabinet secretary, 
is now discussing the issue. The panel in July released the points 
at issue, including its viewpoint on the envisaged revision and the 
nature of a system designed to constitute a deterrent to AML 
violations. 
 
However, the chief objective of the points at issue is to introduce 
the views of panel members, and as such, they do not indicate any 
direction for a revision of the amended AML. 
 
For instance, concerning the application of surcharges and criminal 
penalties for cartel activities, the points at issue argued that 
this is rare internationally and should thus be eliminated, while it 
claimed that the dual roles played by the FTC regarding egregious 
behavior function well. 
 
Nippon Keidanren (Japan Business Federation) is apparently unhappy 
with the points at issue carrying both arguments. It immediately 
offered a rebuttal titled, "The Right Direction for a Drastic 
Revision." It first called for the abolition of the system in which 
the Fair Trade Commission serves as judge and for the elimination of 
the combination of surcharges and criminal punishments. 
 
Its call for scrapping the system is based on the view that under 
such a system the FTC serves as both prosecutor and judge, making it 
difficult to ensure a fair decision. Keidanren has proposed that 
those who disagree with an administrative punishment should be able 
to file a lawsuit instead of filing a complaint with the FTC. 
 
The arguments offered by Keidanren indeed point out problems with 
the amended law. Its arguments also include doubts and 
dissatisfaction harbored by companies or industrial organizations, 
such as the need to clarify the legal nature of surcharges and 
 
TOKYO 00005243  007 OF 010 
 
 
guarantee the legitimate right of defense against screening by the 
FTC. 
 
However, this type of counterargument is tantamount to calling for 
easing the principle of punishment under the amended AML. Can such 
an argument obtain understanding from the public? 
 
To begin with, the AML, which has been called the economic 
constitution, aims to ensure fair and free competition. However, 
there has been no end to violations of the AML since its enactment 
of the lain 1947 to date. That was why the major amendment, 
including a substantial hike in surcharges, was made. The top 
priority for business circles should be to reduce violations. 
 
The FTC is expected to shortly release a formal view on the issue. 
It basically intends to maintain both the judge system to review 
cases and the application of surcharges and criminal punishments as 
stipulated under the amended AML. At the same time, the FTA perhaps 
should make efforts to foster national understanding toward the 
amended law. 
 
(4) Gov't to remove Libya from embargo list 
 
MAINICHI (Page 2) (Abridged) 
September 12, 2006 
 
The government decided yesterday to exclude Libya from its embargo 
list of four countries, including North Korea, for especially strict 
export restrictions on products that can be diverted for weapons 
use. Libya decided in 2003 to scrap its weapons of mass destruction 
programs, and the United States removed Libya from its terror list 
in May this year. In response, the government made the decision. The 
government will make a cabinet decision in late October on removing 
Libya from the embargo list. The United States will ease its 
pressure on these countries if they change their adversarial 
attitudes. The government is responding to this US strategy and is 
also urging North Korea to make a policy changeover. 
 
The government restricts military convertible products under a 
cabinet order based on the Foreign Exchange and Foreign Trade 
Control Law. There are about 80 restricted products, including 
pumps, optical fiber cables, and integrated circuits. The government 
is currently imposing double-decker restrictions on exporters. In 
concrete terms, the government requires the economy, trade and 
industry minister's permission to ship a product priced at one 
million yen or higher. In addition, the government also requires 
exporters to ask for the minister's permission to export a product 
worth 50,000 yen or more to four specific countries, including North 
Korea. 
 
This time, the government will remove Libya from its list of 
countries for the second requirement and will move that country to 
the list of countries for the first requirement. In addition, the 
government will require permission for shipments to three countries, 
including North Korea, instead of retaining the current ceilings or 
upper limits of exports to these countries. 
 
(5) Editorial: 5 years after 9-11- A day to renew antiterror 
resolve 
 
SANKEI (Page 3) (Full) 
September 10, 2006 
 
 
TOKYO 00005243  008 OF 010 
 
 
Again, that day has come around. Five years ago on Sept. 11, 
terrorists attacked America at its nerve centers. 
 
Al Qaeda-a worldwide terrorist group consisting of Islamic 
radicals-hijacked two US airliners and crashed them into the World 
Trade Center's twin towers in New York City. Hours later, the two 
skyscrapers crumbled. The shocking scenes are deeply engraved in the 
hearts and minds of people throughout the world. The trauma has yet 
to be overcome. 
 
Shortly thereafter, President Bush declared retaliation against the 
terrorist group. The next month, US and British forces launched an 
air campaign in Afghanistan, where Al Qaeda's leader, Osama bin 
Laden, was believed to be hiding. The US-led international forces 
overthrew the Taliban regime of that country. In March 2003, the 
United States launched attacks in Iraq, which was regarded as a 
hotbed of terrorism. One month later, the multinational forces 
toppled the Hussein regime. 
 
The threat of terror, however, is still alive. We recall two other 
terrorist attacks: the Madrid, Spain, train bombings of March 2004, 
and the London subway and bus bombings of July 2005. Last month, 
Britain unearthed a massive plot to blow up jetliners in flight from 
London to the United States. In Iraq as well, the security situation 
remains unstable with religious conflicts involving Islamic 
radicals. 
 
The US president called the war on terror over the past five years 
"the first war of the 21st century," emphasizing it as an 
"ideological struggle" to defend freedom and democracy. The problem, 
however, is that Al Qaeda and other terrorist elements are invisible 
enemies. One expert notes that there are 30-40 Islamic jihadist 
groups with 50,000-200,000 members in the world, all having 
something to do with Al Qaeda. 
 
The question is what should we do to contain terrorism. Needless to 
say, the international community should carry out antiterror 
cooperation that transcends the  specific interests of its members. 
Each of its members has to take a resolute stand against terrorism. 
In addition, each country needs to collect accurate intelligence 
while protecting human rights and practicing fair justice. 
 
There is no guarantee that Japan will not come under terrorist 
attack. In his bid to take the premiership, Chief Cabinet Secretary 
Shinzo Abe has come up with a plan to set up an 
intelligence-gathering body that would go beyond the 
interdepartmental barriers of government ministries and agencies. 
However, it is a categorical imperative to consolidate adequate and 
effective functions. 
 
The war on terror will not end easily. Sept. 11 is the day for the 
whole world to renew its antiterror resolve. 
 
(6) US society still shaken five years after 9/11 attacks: Constant 
crackdowns put Muslims in great fear; Long detention without 
evidence under criticism from ex-FBI officer 
 
MAINICHI (Page 7) (Full) 
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Sumire Kunieda 
 
The 9/11 terrorist attacks on the United States in 2001 that killed 
 
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some 3,000 people still remain fresh in the minds of the American 
people. It has been five years since then. The fear of terrorism 
still weights heavy on the minds of Americans. The hearts of the 
families of the victims have been changed forever. We follow these 
themes below. 
 
By the US government's request, a Korean Air passenger jet bound for 
San Francisco made an emergency landing at Narita Airport on May 30, 
2005. The reason was that a man on the US blacklist of passengers 
was aboard the plane. After the aircraft landed, a US Federal Bureau 
of Investigation (FBI) agent questioned him at Narita Airport. He 
was then sent back to the United States, where he was arrested as a 
terrorist suspect. 
 
The man is Hamid Hayat, 23, a plant worker living in Lodi, 
California. He was convicted this past April of terrorism charges as 
specified under the Patriotism Act, for it was learned that he had 
taken part in terrorist training at a camp in Pakistan. He is likely 
to be sentenced in November to 39 years in prison. 
 
The material evidence the FBI provided to the court was a videotape 
of his interrogation at the time of his arrest, a videotaped 
conversation between FBI informant Naseem Khan, 33, who had 
infiltrated into a community of Pakistani immigrants in Lodi, and 
four satellite-taken photos. 
 
FBI Special Agent in Charge of the Sacramento Field Office Drew 
Parenti, 46, told the Mainichi Shimbun: "Hamid told Khan that he 
would attend the terrorist training camp and during interrogation, 
he admitted that fact, and he even gave an account of what the camp 
was like. We are confident we can prosecute him." 
 
But defendant Hamid Hayat kept changing his testimony about the 
location of the camp from Afghanistan to Kashimir (Pakistan) and 
then to somewhere near his village. A lawyer said angrily: "That's 
because of the result of his long detention without access to a 
lawyer. Who can believe such preposterous testimony?" 
 
Doubts also have been cast on the role played by the FBI informant, 
since Khan was given $225,000 or about 26.3 million yen by the FBI 
as a reward. The taped telephone conversation between Khan and Hamid 
Hayat, when the latter was in Pakistan, showed Khan trying to get 
Hayat to tell him something about the camp. 
 
Khan: "What have you been doing recently?" 
 
Hayat: "Nothing." 
 
Khan: "Nothing? You should do something. Are you a man? You told me 
you would attend a camp in Pakistan and would do this or that there. 
But all you are doing now is sitting with your arms folded." 
 
"I've never seen an investigation this terrible," lamented a former 
FBI agent with 35 years experience at the Bureau. He judged that 
except for the defendant's confession, there was no material 
evidence. He resolved himself to help the defendant's legal team 
because of a concern this case might have an adverse effect on the 
war on terror. He said: "People who immigrated to the US might come 
to think that even though they did not do anything wrong, they might 
be arrested. They might become reluctant to cooperate with the FBI." 
The guilty verdict handed down to defendant Hayat came as a shock to 
the Pakistani community in America. 
 
 
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A 58-year-old man said: "People have cast suspicious eyes at Muslims 
since the 9/11 attacks every time something happened. This is the 
same way the Japanese-Americans were treated when placed into camps 
during World War II." 
 
In 2000, only 14 cases were prosecuted on terrorist charges, but it 
jumped to 440 covering the past five years since the 9/11 incident. 
The FBI bragged about the results of its investigations, noting, 
"261 prosecution cases filed by us won guilty verdicts." On the 
other hand, strong-arm investigative methods have been criticized. 
Of the so-called terrorist cases that federal investigative 
agencies, including the FBI, have brought to the court by this past 
May, 90 percent have been rejected for such reasons as insufficient 
evidence. The US justice system is wavering in between prevention of 
terrorism and protection of human rights. 
 
SCHIEFFER