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INDEX:
(1) Regular Diet session to start today: Ruling bloc to focus on
education issue; Opposition parties on social disparity issue;
Mud-slinging likely over "politics and money" issue
(2) Calls for Upper House Vice President Tsunoda's resignation
growing stronger in Minshuto
(3) Former Agriculture Minister Norota recorded office expenses in
political funds reports although he used secretary's home as fund
management office; Defense Minister Kyuma failed to notify
relocations of political organizations
(4) Cuts in medical equipment expenses: Narrow differences between
domestic and foreign prices
(5) Paratroop training planned at Kadena
(6) Japan, US to test IC tag-based traceability system for freight
containers as security measure
(7) TOP HEADLINES
(8) EDITORIALS
(9) Prime Minister's schedule, January 24
ARTICLES:
(1) Regular Diet session to start today: Ruling bloc to focus on
education issue; Opposition parties on social disparity issue;
Mud-slinging likely over "politics and money" issue
NIHON KEIZAI (Page 2) (Slightly abridged)
January 25, 2007
With the convocation of the regular session of the Diet today, a
150-day war of words will start. With the Upper House election this
summer in mind, the government and the ruling parties will lose no
time in having the Diet pass bills related to the Constitution,
education and employment while underscoring the need to tackle those
issues. The opposition camp is gearing up to criticize the stances
of the government and the ruling camp in the income-gap policy area.
A fierce contest is expected to occur right from the outset of the
session. An expected clash over the "politics and money" issue
concerning could develop into a mud-slinging contest since both the
ruling and opposition camps have been exposed as involved in shady
fund-management activities.
Dark cloud over national referendum bill
LDP Secretary General Hidenao Nakagawa is attaching importance to
educational revitalization, an issue to which the prime minister
gives first consideration. The government plans to submit three
educational reform-related bills, including the introduction of a
teaching-license renewal system. The prime minister asked
cooperation from Nakagawa and New Komeito Secretary General Kazuo
Kitagaga on the phone after the meeting of the Educational Reform
Council yesterday.
Passage of the national referendum bill that will set the procedures
for amending the Constitution, a subject to which the prime minister
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has shown eagerness, is another top priority issue for the LDP. On
the other hand, the New Komeito is placing emphasis on laws related
to revisions to employment rules, such as a hike in minimum wages.
Opposition parties are in agreement on their intention to focus on
the issue of correcting income disparity. The Democratic Party of
Japan (DPJ or Minshuto) is preparing to submit a disparity
correction emergency measures bill featuring a call for the same
wages for the same work. It also intends to pursue government
office-led bid-rigging. Regarding this issue, the Fair Trade
Commission (FTC) has recognized bid-rigging carried out by officials
of the Land, Infrastructure and Transport.
DPJ head Ichiro Ozawa met Secretary General Yukio Hatoyama the same
day and revealed his intention to make a careful judgment on the
national referendum bill while monitoring the LDP's approach. He
said, "If there are differences in views, there is no need to rush
to reach a judgment. Debate on social disparities and people's life
is more important."
Many members of the DPJ, which has held talks to the LDP plan along
with that party, support that bill. However, the Social Democratic
Party and the People's New Party want to prevent its enactment,
arguing that it will only credit the Abe cabinet. The political
judgment of Ozawa, who attaches importance to election cooperation
with the two parties, has apparently constrained Hatoyama.
DPJ's force of argument weakening
Senior opposition party members met at a Tokyo hotel and agreed on
the perception "politics and money issues will inevitably become a
major subject of debate right from the beginning of the Diet
session."
Opposition parties are envisaging a scenario in which it will drive
the prime minister into the corner thoroughly pursuing former State
Minister for Administrative Reform, who quit late last year over
shady accounting and Agriculture Minister Toshikatsu Matsuoka, who
reported a large amount of office expenses - both were appointed by
the prime minister.
However, the force of the DPJ's argument is beginning to weaken
following the emergence of suspicion that House of Councillors Vice
President Giichi Tsunoda, who temporarily left the DPJ to serve in
this post, might have omitted political funds donations from his
political funds payment balance report.
Social Democratic Party head Mizuho Fukushima during a press
conference the same day snubbed Tsunoda, "If what has been reported
is correct, Mr. Tsunoda should step down as vice president." Some
participants in the DPJ's executive meeting said, "Mr. Tsunoda
should fulfill his accountability submitting an accounting book, if
he has one."
The DPJ is saddled with another issue of its head Ozawa reporting
expenses for the acquisition of a high amount of land and buildings
as office expenses. The LDP has started debate at the compliance
taskforce of its Party Reform Implementation Headquarters on whether
the acquisition of real property by Ozawa's fund management
organization was appropriate or not.
(2) Calls for Upper House Vice President Tsunoda's resignation
growing stronger in Minshuto
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MAINICHI (Page 1) (Full)
Evening, January 25, 2007
There are allegations that the political fund management
organization of House of Councilors Vice President Giichi Tsunoda
failed to include in Tsunoda's report on political funds to the
government 25 million yen it had received for the 2001 Upper House
election. Referring to the allegations in a meeting this morning of
the party members from both chambers of the Diet, Minshuto
(Democratic Party of Japan) Secretary General Yukio Hatoyama
revealed his intention of putting an end to the matter as quickly as
possible, saying, "It is necessary to quickly dealing with the
matter. I want you to entrust it to the executive." Concerning a
possible negative impact on the regular Diet session in which the
politics and money issue will become a main issue, calls for
Tsunoda's resignation are growing stronger in the main opposition
SIPDIS
party. There is a possibility that Tsunoda will have to make a
decision on his course of action.
At his press conference on Jan. 23, Tsunoda rejected his involvement
in the mishandling of the political funds and expressed his
intention not to step down from his post. In a Minshuto executive
meeting this morning, however, the party's Upper House Chairman
Azuma Koshiishi said: "I received a telephone call from Mr. Tsunoda
this morning and he told me that he would like to reconsider the
matter since his explanation (on the 23rd) was insufficient." Former
President Katsuya Okada sough strict response, saying, "Minshuto as
a party should take responsibility for the matter."
(3) Former Agriculture Minister Norota recorded office expenses in
political funds reports although he used secretary's home as fund
management office; Defense Minister Kyuma failed to notify
relocations of political organizations
MAINICHI (Page 1) (Excerpts)
Evening, January 25, 2007
The political fund management organization of Hosei Norota, former
agriculture, forestry and fisheries minister, reported a total of
10.97 million yen as office expenses in Norota's political funds
reports in 2003, 2004 and 2005 although the organization used the
house of a private secretary to Norota as the office, the Mainichi
has learned.
Three political organizations of Defense Ministry Fumio Kyuma are
not located at the addresses written in Kyuma's reports on political
funds to the government. The organizations therefore corrected the
political funds reports.
It was reported that Kyuma's political organizations headed by his
incumbent and former secretaries -- Tokyo Kyueikai, Kensei Konwakai,
and Tatsumikai -- had their offices on the sixth floor of a building
in Minato Ward, Tokyo, and a total of office expenses in 2005 was
6.6 million yen. However, the three organizations were not located
in that building. Kyuma's office explained: "Tokyo Kyueikai and
Tatsumikai were relocated to Naka-Ikegami in Ota Ward and Kensei
Konwakai to Akasaka, Minato Ward in June 2004. But we failed to
report them." The three Kyuma's political organizations then
corrected their political funds reports in mid-January this year.
In a cabinet meeting today, Kyuma admitted to the failure of
notifying the relocations of the three organizations. He then
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stated: "I have no connection with Kensei Konwakai. Since I don't
head the remaining two organizations, their representatives are to
blame."
(4) Cuts in medical equipment expenses: Narrow differences between
domestic and foreign prices
YOMIURI (Page 11) (Abridged)
January 25, 2007
Medical service fees were reduced by 3.16% last April as part of
efforts to constrain medical outlays. About 32 trillion yen is spent
as medical expenses annually in Japan, almost the same level as
earnings by the pachinko industry. If the government really wants to
hold down medical spending, it should try to reduce spending on
medical equipment more drastically, because there are wide
differences between domestic and foreign prices of such products.
In Japan, technical fees in treating illnesses have been kept low,
but the cost of equipment and other medical materials are abnormally
higher than in other countries. For instance, in the case of an
operation for appendicitis in Japan, it costs about 380,000 yen with
a stay of seven days in a hospital, but it costs 2.44 million yen
with a one-day hospital stay in New York and 480,000 yen (with a
four-day hospitalization) in Beijing.
Meanwhile, the price of a cardiac pacemaker is three to four times
higher in Japan than in any other foreign country. In Japan, a
pacemaker is priced at 1.16 to 1.48 million yen (as of 2004). In
China, though, the price of an imported product is 800,000 to
1,000,000 yen and that of a domestic product is 400,000 to 600,000
yen. A balloon catheter for heart attack treatment is priced at
170,000 to 190,000 yen in Japan (2004) but at 70,000 to 80,000 yen
in the US. The price of a contact lens for cataract patients is
52,000 yen in Japan but 14,000 yen in the US. The price of a
coronary artery stent is 338,000 in Japan and 64,000 to 105,000 yen
(in 2001) in Britain. Treatment costs for coronary artery stent
total 3,688,200 yen in the US and 1,740,750 yen in Japan. However,
material costs are lower in the US than in Japan. The proportion of
the material cost to the total treatment fee for coronary artery
stent in Japan is 58% and that of the operation cost is 14%. In the
case of artificial joint replacement, the material cost and the
operation fee account for 40 to 50% and 15 to 17%, respectively.
A certain medical product manufacturer sells its products overseas
for only one-fifth the prices in Japan. For example, an artificial
lung is priced at 1,620 dollars in Japan but 210 to 1,000 dollars in
Asia, 220 to 950 dollars in the US, and 240 to 500 dollars in
Europe.
To trim medical spending, the government should publicize the
results of international comparison between domestic and foreign
material prices and reset proper prices. Of total medical
expenditures, material expenses account for about 60%. If the prices
were halved, approximately one trillion yen could be squeezed out.
(5) Paratroop training planned at Kadena
OKINAWA TIMES (Page 1) (Full)
January 25, 2007
The US Air Force's 18th Wing at Kadena Air Base is planning to
conduct a parachute drill tomorrow for its rescue troopers, sources
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familiar with the plan revealed yesterday. The paradrop training is
planned for six troops only, and it is believed to be a heliborne
drill. The Defense Facilities Administration Agency's Naha bureau
and the Foreign Ministry's Okinawa office will brief the authorities
of Okinawa Prefecture, Kadena Town, Okinawa City, and Chatan Town
today on an outline of the planned parachute drill. The US military
last conducted such paradrop training eight years ago at the base,
which is close to populated areas. Local residents are likely to
oppose the planned drill. The prefectural government will consider
taking action to ask the US military not to carry it out.
The United States has told Japan that the US Air Force wants to
routinize paradrop training at Kadena Air Base not only for its
troops but also for other US servicemen, According to the sources.
The US military has been unable to carry out its scheduled parachute
drills at Iejima airfield for weather reasons, the sources said. The
US military will likely continue paradrop training at Kadena.
The training is scheduled to be conducted tomorrow afternoon. It
simulates a rescue operation for one who fell into the sea, and a
rescue team will land near the base runways from a helicopter over
the base. The drill will likely be rescheduled if the weather does
not permit.
Normally, the US military conducts parachute drills at Iejima
airfield. Parachute drills were conducted at Kadena Air Base in May
1998 and in April 1999. Since then, the US military has conducted no
parachute drills at the base.
According to the sources, weather conditions around Iejima-an island
lying off the northwestern part of Okinawa's main island-has not
been stable enough to conduct a parachute drill. The training this
time at Kadena is aimed at making up for US military personnel's
lack of paradrop training to keep them qualified.
The US military used to carry out parachute drills at Yomitan
airfield. According to the prefectural government, the US military
conducted a parachute drill there in 1965 and a local schoolgirl was
killed under a paradropped trailer that fell near a civilian home.
There were other accidents, such as timber and iron debris dropping
on residential or farmland areas. Furthermore, paratroopers landed
in private gardens.
Meanwhile, Japan and the United States finalized a report released
by their intergovernmental joint committee in 1996, incorporating an
agreement to move parachute drills to Iejima airfield. According to
local village authorities, the US military conducts one or two
drills each month at Iejima airfield. In October last year, one of
those in that drill landed on a field outside the base fence.
An Okinawa prefectural government official said: "We have been
calling for the US military to better use Kadena Air Base, but they
are deploying the F-22A Raptor to the base instead of alleviating
our base-hosting burden. They are so inconsiderate of the local
communities. They are too insensitive. We have no choice but to take
action as we did eight years ago (to call for the US military to
suspend the planned training)."
(6) Japan, US to test IC tag-based traceability system for freight
containers as security measure
NIKKEI Evening (Page 3) (Full)
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January 24, 2007
The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport will start in
March the test of an IC tag-based traceability system by installing
tags on freight containers at Yokohama Port in cooperation with the
United States Department of Homeland Security. This is a security
system that the US is planning to introduce, and a joint test of the
system will be carried out by Japan and the US for the first time.
If the system is proved effective, it might be adopted as an
international standard for managing containerized cargos.
The test will be conducted on a route between Yokohama Port and the
West Coast. IC tags equipped with the function of the global
positioning system (GPS) will be installed on 50 to 100 freight
containers. These containers will be transported in five to seven
shipments. The test is aimed to check if the containers at sea or on
the group are accurately and promptly positioned, as well as to
check whether piled containers are identified. The durability of IC
tags will also be tested. The test period will be three to four
weeks until the containers arrive in Chicago by railway.
The US will provide such equipment as IC tags and antennas. The
Transport Ministry and the Yokohama Harbor Transportation
Association will cooperate in coordination with the
Singapore-affiliated leading container transportation firm APL of
the US and in installation work.
Since the terrorist attacks occurred in the US in September 2001,
countries have tightened measures to secure containers across the
world. For instance, the US requires exporting countries to report
on the contents of cargos 24 hours before ship departure. In the
private sector, the ECP Global, a group promoting IC tag
standardization in Europe, has taken the lead in working out
international standards. Nippon Yusen K.K. and other companies will
soon carry out a test on a route between Hong Kong and Tokyo.
(7) TOP HEADLINES
Asahi:
Bills amending three education laws to be submitted to Diet
Mainichi & Yomiuri:
Survey finds 2.2 billion yen in school lunch fees unpaid
Nihon Keizai:
Ricoh to acquire IBM digital business printer operation to become
top of world
Sankei:
Calls growing in ruling parties for putting off plan for unifying
pension systems, with eye on Upper House election
Tokyo Shimbun:
LDP to revise law to require receipts for office expenses worth more
than 50,000 yen
Akahata:
Survey: Nonpermanent employees have more than one job due to
impoverished state
(8) EDITORIALS
Asahi:
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(1) Regular Diet session: Confidence in politics called into
question
(2) Bush's State of the Union speech: Watch the documentary film "An
Inconvenient Truth"
Mainichi:
(1) Education panel's proposals: Don't be in a rush to reform the
education system
(2) State of the Union address: No way in sight for overcoming
crisis
Yomiuri:
(1) Education reform panel report deserves full marks
(2) President Bush's State of the Union address: Iraqi burden casts
dark shadow over North Korea's nuclear ambitions
Nihon Keizai:
(1) Future of schools cannot be seen in education panel's report
(2) State of the Union address reflects US fatigue
Sankei:
(1) Destruction of satellite: Looking at China's real intention
(2) Bid-rigging on subway project: Stricter punishments necessary
Tokyo Shimbun:
(1) Prime Minister Abe's view reflected in education reform report
(2) Bush's State of the Union speech: Stagnation will continue for
two more years
Akahata:
US State of the Union address: No reflection on mistakes in Iraq
(9) Prime Minister's schedule, January 24
NIHON KEIZAI (Page 2) (Full)
January 25, 2007
09:31
Overseas economic cooperation conference at the Kantei.
10:30
Met with Koki Chuma, head of LDP Administrative Reform Promotion
Headquarters and chief of the Secretariat Yoichi Miyazawa. Then had
telephone conversation with Mongolian President Enkhbayar. Assistant
Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary Ando and MOFA Foreign Policy Bureau
Director General Kawai were present.
11:31
Met members of the 16th Winter Olympic team, an international sports
event for the deaf. Then met with Special Advisor to the Prime
Minister Emote.
11:59
Met with former Prime Minister Nakasone.
14:00
Met with Diet Policy Committee Chairman Nikai and New Komeito Diet
Policy Chairman Urushibara, followed by Chief Cabinet Secretary
Shiozaki and Assistant Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary Saka.
14:31
Educational Revitalization Conference. Then met with Education and
Science Minister Ibuki and Shiozaki.
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15:16
Videotaping of Live Talk Kantei for the government's Internet TV
along with Educational Revitalization Council Chairman Ryoji Noyori
and Special Advisor to the Prime Minister Yamatani.
16:00
Met with Agriculture Minister Matsuoka and METI Minister Amari. Then
Latin American ambassadorial meeting.
17:44
New year's meeting hosted by the People's Political Association at
Hotel New Ohtani.
18:36
Arrived at the Kantei.
19:19
Greeting exchange meeting of the Commercial Broadcasting Commentary
Research Group at the Japan Press Center at Uchisaiwai-cho
19:51
Arrived at the official residence.
SCHIEFFER