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SUBJECT: DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 03/30/07
INDEX:
(1) MSDF sailor takes home top secret information on Aegis
destroyer
(2) Editorial: Documents unveil government's involvement in Yasukuni
Shrine's decision on enshrining Class-A war criminals
(3) Mood of Abe administration: Abe antagonistic toward America's
"past occupation of Japan"
(4) Atmosphere surrounding the Abe administration; Aims at a
beautiful country in cooperation with hawks; Liberals wary of
restoring old ways
(5) Sankei-sho column
(6) Scramble for uranium getting fierce: Rising demand due to
increase in construction of nuclear plants in China and India; Japan
plans to expand procurement from Kazakhstan to 20 percent of its
imports through agreement to be reached next month
(Corrected copy) MSDF crewman quizzed over vessel data taken out
ARTICLES:
(1) MSDF sailor takes home top secret information on Aegis
destroyer
YOMIURI (Top Play)
Evening, March 30, 2007
An officer (33) of the Maritime Self-Defense Force (MSDF), a
crewmember of the destroyer Shirane based at the port of Yokosuka in
Kanagawa Prefecture, was found to have taken home a floppy disk
containing classified data. In this case, it was also found today
that records about Aegis vessels, probably those pertaining to their
performance and the like, were contained in the data. The
performance, etc., of weapons provided by the United States, based
on the Japan-US Mutual Defense Assistance Agreement, is classified
as the "top defense secret" (tokubetsu bouei himitsu) among the
categories classified by the Defense Ministry regarding defense
intelligence. Should such intelligence be leaked outside, the case
may infringe on the Intelligence Protection Law. Given this,
investigative authorities are cautiously probing the case by
analyzing the data taken out.
According to the investigative authorities, the Kanagawa prefectural
police found and seized the floppy disk containing classified data
on a destroyer radar system and a hard disk when they searched the
home of the petty officer second class in Yokosuka City, after his
Chinese wife was arrested this January on suspicion of violating the
immigration law.
The hard disk was found to contain intelligence on Aegis ships
deployed in Japan. Petty officers are not supposed to have access to
such information. The investigative authorities are probing the MSDF
intelligence-management system and from where the officer obtained
the data.
An Aegis destroyer has the state-of-the-art air-defense capability
and is able to intercept more than 10 incoming airplanes or missiles
simultaneously. The US developed the Aegis system designed to pursue
and attack targets with a computer, so data on the performance of
Aegis ships are regarded as extremely highly confidential.
TOKYO 00001414 002 OF 009
(2) Editorial: Documents unveil government's involvement in Yasukuni
Shrine's decision on enshrining Class-A war criminals
MAINICHI (Page 5) (Full)
March 30, 2007
The National Diet Library released the contents of a collection of
documents regarding Yasukuni Shrine problems. The documents revealed
that the former Health and Welfare Ministry and Yasukuni Shrine had
held close negotiations on the topic of enshrinement of Class-A war
criminals.
In connection with the prime minister's annual visit to Yasukuni
Shrine, controversy has raged at home and abroad over the propriety
of the souls of Class-A war criminals enshrined along with the war
dead. The government's view is that since Yasukuni Shrine, as a
religious institution, decided to enshrine the Class-A criminals,
the government can was its hands of the issue. The documents have
revealed, however, that the Health and Welfare Ministry indeed was
deeply involved in Yasukuni Shrine's decision-making on the
enshrinement. We also have learned from the documents that the
ministry in its negotiations with Yasukuni, cited its concern about
negative public reactions to the enshrinement of war criminals. The
ministry perhaps felt guilty about enshrining such criminals in
light of the principle of separation of religion and politics.
If that is the case, is it acceptable for the government to shift
the responsibility for enshrining Class-A criminals solely to
Yasukuni Shrine? The logical approach for the government would be to
publicize all documents showing all the facts, including the
released ones, and to then present its views to the public.
In 1952, just after the US Occupation ended, separate resolutions
calling for the release of war criminals were presented (and failed)
in the House of Representatives and House of Councilors. According
to the released documents, though, the process of enshrining war
criminals did not track with the moves to pass such resolutions. The
ministry and the shrine were both carefully watching the tide of
public opinion.
The released documents note that the former Health and Welfare
Ministry proposed to Yasukuni Shrine in 1958 that consideration
should be given to the possibility of enshrining B and C class
criminals. It was also the ministry that called for a two-stage
strategy to be taken to enshrine B and C class criminals without
drawing attention to it, and then proceed to Class-A criminals
afterward. Yasukuni Shrine included B and C class war criminals in
the list of the war dead honored there in April and October of the
following year.
As it stands, the ministry treated the enshrinements of Class-A
criminals and B and C class criminals as a set and took a two-stage
strategic approach.
In a general meeting of the shrine in December 1958, some
participants suggested the possibility of enshrining Class-A war
criminals in the future. Hearing this, Representative Shinzo
Koizumi, former Keio University president, reportedly said with a
sigh of relief, "You mean that a decision should be made here, don't
you?" This episode shows that all shrine officials at that time were
not necessarily in favor of enshrining war criminals.
TOKYO 00001414 003 OF 009
In the process of deciding to enshrine war criminals, the former
Health and Welfare Ministry sent a list of names of those to be
enshrined. In response, the shrine examines the list and makes the
final decision. The ministry formed separate lists of Class-A
criminals and B and C class criminals simultaneously, but it waited
to present the list of Class-A criminals until 1966, eight years
later.
But Yasukuni Shrine did not immediately decide to enshrine the
Class-A criminals. Three years later, the shrine at first decided
with the ministry to consider it possible to enshrine Class-A
criminals but not to disclose their enshrinement. In the following
year, however, the shrine changed its mind and reserved a decision
on the matter. This indicates that the shrine was opposed to
enshrining Class-A war criminals.
Fujimaro Tsukuba, grandson of the Meiji Emperor, was chief priest at
that time. Giving consideration to Emperor Showa's (Hirohito)
intention, Tsukuba reportedly was negative about enshrining Class-A
war criminals. The newly released documents prove this fact.
In October 1978, just after Chief Priest Tsukuba was replaced with
Nagayoshi Matsudaira, Yasukuni Shrine secretly enshrined the souls
of the 14 Class-A war criminals to join the war dead honored there.
A memorandum recorded by then Imperial Household Agency Grand
Steward Tomohiko Tomita, found last year, showed that Emperor Showa
had expressed his strong displeasure when he heard of this
development. What procedures did Matsudaira take to enshrine the war
criminals? What negotiations were carried out between Yasukuni
Shrine and the former Health and Welfare Ministry? The released
documents do not refer to the process that led to deciding the
enshrinement of the Class-A war criminals. We urge the government to
bring the final details to light.
(3) Mood of Abe administration: Abe antagonistic toward America's
"past occupation of Japan"
ASAHI (Page 1) (Excerpts)
Eve., March 30, 2007
Toru Hayano
Yoshiaki Yoshimi (60), professor at Chuo University, has been
frequently visited by Western journalists since the "comfort women
resolution" was submitted to the US House of Representatives this
January.
They all ask Yoshimi: "Shinzo Abe is enthusiastic about resolving
the abduction issue, but there is a contradiction in his attitude
between the wartime comfort women and the abduction issue, isn't
there?"
As a researcher on "wartime comfort women", Yoshimi also finds
commonality between the two issues.
Wartime comfort women were unknown in the world until Etsuro Totsuka
(65), currently a professor at Ryukoku University, denounced the
Japanese government for having exploited women as "sex slaves" in
February 1992 at a session of the United Nations Commission on Human
Rights in Geneva. He called on the Japanese government to pay
compensation and asked the US to serve as a mediator.
"Mr. Abe is persistently pursuing the abduction issue, but he gives
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the former comfort women the brush-off. This attitude is viewed as a
double standard. Mr. Abe may love the state, but he does not pay
much attention to human beings," Totsuka said.
The difference in treatment toward the "comfort women" issue between
Japan and the US House of Representatives, as well as American
journalism, may come from a gap in the awareness of human rights
between Japan and the United States.
Abe and the state: Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications
Yoshihide Suga (58) became acquainted with Abe in the Parliamentary
League of Junior Lawmakers to Consider Japan's Future and Historical
Education, a panel to deal with history textbooks. "Our friendship
actually started with the time North Korea's cargo ship, Man Gyong
Bong, was barred from calling at Japanese ports. Six lawmakers
including Ichita Yamamoto, Taro Kono, and I moved to create a bill.
Mr. Abe, then deputy chief cabinet secretary, backed our move," Suga
said.
Suga graduated from a senior high school in Akita Prefecture and
came to Tokyo as part of a group employment. He worked at a
cardboard factory, but one day, he made up his mind to go on to the
next stage of education. While working, he went to Hosei University,
worked as a secretary to a politician, served as a Yokohama City
Assembly member, and then finally won a Diet seat. "I feel nostalgic
for Ueno Station," Suga said. In the last Liberal Democratic Party
(LDP) presidential election, Suga worked together with his fellow
lawmaker, Yuji Yamamoto (54), currently state minister in charge of
financial services, organized the "parliamentary group for a second
chance" and helped Abe. Yamamoto said: "The Abe cabinet emerged as
one of the inevitabilities of history. The Constitution and the
Basic Education Law are likened to the body framework of a human
being. The public sees the limits of the current Constitution and
the current Basic Education Law. What (Mr. Abe) is trying to do is
to restructure Japan into a normal country."
I told Yamamoto regarding comfort women that it seemed unnecessary
for Abe to stress, "There was no evidence to prove coercion."
Yamamoto told me: "He gets so upset about such a thing."
Tokyo University Prof. Takashi Mikuriya (55) is an expert on
political history. Last year, he visited Yamaguchi Prefecture's
Tabuse Town, the birthplace of Abe's grandfather, Nobusuke Kishi,
and conducted research on Kishi's diaries and letters at the town's
museum. "I have yet to sort out the many documents I had collected
at the time. When Kishi went abroad, he sent a picture postcard
every day to his wife." Kishi formed his "anti-US" attitude while he
was in the Sugamo Prison (as a Class-A war criminal), but he was a
pragmatist who was able to comply with America's wishes even while
confronting it.
The point Mikuriya feels somewhat "dangerous" about Abe is that he
sticks to the idea of amending the Constitution on the grounds that
the Constitution was created when Japan was under America's
occupation. Mikuriya noted:
"The LDP's liberal lawmakers think that the Occupation turned out
all for the best. But Mr. Abe has insisted that that was bad for
Japan. For the US, which has now lost confidence in its foreign
policy, the occupation of Japan is one of a few success stories.
America seems to be wondering why the grandson of Kishi, which was
backed by the US, is saying such things."
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In addition to the current gap in perceptions about "wartime comfort
women," if still another gap emerges regarding Japan's historical
perception of the American occupation of Japan, the Abe
administration may find itself forced to follow the path to
isolation.
(4) Atmosphere surrounding the Abe administration; Aims at a
beautiful country in cooperation with hawks; Liberals wary of
restoring old ways
ASAHI (Page 1) (Full)
Evening, March 29, 2007
By Aihiko Morikawa
Whenever he meets foreigners, New Komeito Representative Akihiro
Ota, 61, hurls these questions at them: "Is Japan a beautiful
country?" and "What is beautiful?" Behind these questions lies Ota's
desire to fully understand Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's vision of
creating a beautiful country.
Ota's answer to his own question includes the lifelong employment
system, the national health insurance program, and the spirit to
save the poor.
Ota won a Diet seat for the first time in 1993 along with Abe after
serving as a Komei Shimbun reporter and a Soka Gakkai Youth Division
chief. As a peace-loving political party, the New Komeito has been
giving special attention to low-income earners." Ota said: "Japanese
people are losing such spiritual values as helping each other and
caring for others. I would like to see the prime minister spell out
specific ways to restore those values."
Abe explained a beautiful country this way at the Diet:
"Many foreigners praised Japan from the Meiji through Taisho eras.
Albert Einstein underlined the need to maintain humbleness and pure
and calm minds. I would like to create a country filled with people
who behave in a simple and beautiful manner."
The feudalistic way of thinking was very much alive in the Meiji
(1868 - 1912) and Taisho (1912 - 1926) eras. Abe, who idealizes
those periods, seems to equate a beautiful country with restoring
the old ways.
The New Komeito, which has endorsed revising the Fundamental Law of
Education and upgrading the Defense Ministry to ministry status has
arguably some liberal overtones. Ota's unique interpretation of a
beautiful country also seems to reflect the party's desire to remain
in the ruling camp.
LDP General Council Chairman Yuya Niwa, 62, comes from a liberal
faction named Kochikai that produced such prime ministers as Hayato
Ikeda and Masayoshi Ohira. Niwa led his faction to back Abe in last
year's LDP presidential race, knowing that he is a hawk. He had to
acknowledge Abe's popularity.
In late February, Niwa visited China where he had a heated debate
with Vice Foreign Minister Dai Bingguo that went as follows:
Dai: "Japan must not fall behind the United States in normalizing
relations with North Korea."
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Niwa: "About 90 percent of the Japanese people want a settlement of
the abduction issue. A democracy adopts a policy that reflects
national opinion."
Making a concession on the abduction issue would be suicidal for the
Abe administration, Niwa thought. He also muttered: "If Prime
Minister Abe had visited Yasukuni Shrine soon after assuming office,
I wouldn't have been this eager to support him."
He added: "People criticize the Abe administration as a rightist
government. But in view of improved relations with China and South
Korea and the administration's response to the social disparity
issue, such criticism is irrelevant." He seems to be trying to
generate the impression that the liberal forces have been
instrumental in preventing the Abe administration from tilting
toward the right.
Rightist journalism is visibly unhappy with Abe, who has won
liberals over to his side. A move is widespread in the LDP calling
for a review of the Kono Statement on the so-called wartime comfort
women. A non-mainstream member, Koichi Kato, 67, is particularly
alarmed by the moves of Nippon Kaigi (Japan Conference). The Japan
Conference was established in 1997 on the slogan of constitutional
revision, adoration of the Imperial Family, a negative view on the
International Military Tribunal for the Far East and the like.
Former Chief Justice Toru Miyoshi, 79, chairs the conference. The
organization comprising rightist business leaders, including Ryuzo
Sejima, 95, and shrine-connected individuals has growing influence
over Diet members and local lawmakers. The group enthusiastically
pushed for a revision of the Fundamental Law of Education.
There is a group of Diet members sympathizing with the Japan
Conference. Takeo Hiranuma, 67, who is close to Abe, chairs the
group. Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary Hakubun Shimomura once served
as the group's secretary general.
Kato said, "I should make moves once the Abe administration crosses
the limit line." The new YKK trio composed of Taku Yamasaki, 70,
Makoto Koga, 66, and Koichi Kato has repeatedly met recently.
What is Kato's limit line?
"Local communities are the starting point for the conservative LDP
group. If the Abe administration tries to ignore local communities
by, for instance, bringing competition to public schools, we will
have to rise up against it."
Japan Research Institute Chairman Jitsuro Terashima, 59, published
last month a book titled Why Do the Business Leaders Have to Be
Sensitive to Peace? (Toyo Keizai Shimpo-sha). Terashima, who spent
many years in the United States as a Mitsui & Co. executive, is a
global-minded liberal opinion leader.
"If the Abe administration is trying to break away from the postwar
regime to return to the prewar authoritarian system, it is a grave
misconception. It has to give thought to the parts to look back on
with pride as well as to the elements leading to the coming age."
Is the Abe administration going to follow the policy course
encompassing liberal forces, or leaned toward the authoritarian
system? Abe is wavering between the two. The Japanese public holds
the key.
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(5) Sankei-sho column
SANKEI (Page 1) (Abridged)
March 26, 2007
Japan-US relations have somehow become strange. The United States,
which must be fully aware of the importance of the abduction issue
to Japan, has made a series of concessions to North Korea, reversing
its hard-line stance. Reportedly, the contents of a "comfort women"
resolution presented to the US Congress are identical to the claims
asserted by anti-Japanese Chinese organizations.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and President George W. Bush must wipe
away the ill-will between the two countries during Abe's visit to
the US in late April.
When then Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone visited the United States
in January 1983, the situation was similar. Washington was extremely
unhappy with Tokyo over certain trade and defense issues.
Motoo Shiina, who had the mission of doing the spadework, tried to
convey Nakasone's true intention to a presidential assistant he
knew. A summit was realized in the form of the US president
unilaterally listening to Nakasone's soliloquy, according to
Shiina's memoir. Shiina in later years often found himself busy
repairing Japan-US relations whenever they grew strained. To some
extent, the current situation is ascribable to the departures from
the Bush administration of such Japan experts as former National
Security Council Asian Affairs Director Michael Green, who once
served as Shiina's private secretary, and former Deputy Secretary of
State Richard Armitage.
Shiina passed away on March 16, 2007, after serving both in the
Lower and Upper Houses for a total of 22 years, during which time he
never assumed a major post, such as cabinet minister or
parliamentary vice minister. Newspapers carried small obituaries on
Shiina a week after his death as if to reflect his unassuming
personality.
(6) Scramble for uranium getting fierce: Rising demand due to
increase in construction of nuclear plants in China and India; Japan
plans to expand procurement from Kazakhstan to 20 percent of its
imports through agreement to be reached next month
NIHON KEIZAI (Page 3)
March 30, 2007
A scramble for uranium, fuel used for nuclear power generation, is
spreading throughout the world. Amid newly emerging countries, such
as China and India pressing ahead construction of nuclear plants,
many countries are moving to secure uranium early, alarmed about the
prospect that it will become difficult to procure the material in
the future. Japan intends to increase imports from Kazakhstan, a
major uranium-producing country. Other major countries have also
begun making efforts to secure uranium interests in the former USSR
and African nations.
It has become clear that Japan and Kazakhstan have entered final
coordination of views in order to make a new uranium
supply-procurement plan. In order to counter an intensifying contest
to obtain uranium, the plan aims at raising the ratio of Japan's
uranium import from that nation from the current 1 percent or so to
around 20 percent. The governments of the two countries are expected
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to reach agreement shortly.
Economy, Trade and Industry Minister Akira Amari will visit
Kazakhstan with executives of 20 nuclear plant-related companies in
late April. The two countries will issue a joint statement noting a
reciprocal relationship under which Japan transferring uranium
process technology to Kazakhstan in return for Kazakhstan signing a
contract with Japanese companies to supply uranium to them.
Japan also aims at obtaining the right to develop uranium mines
there as well as to directly purchase the product. A stable
supply-procurement plan is advantageous to both sides. Japan will
likely become able to purchase about 20 percent of uranium it uses
over the medium term.
Kazakhstan's uranium reserve ranks second in the world. One-fifth of
the uranium reserves in the world is said to be located in
Kazakhstan. Japan's uranium consumption accounts for about 10
percent of the global consumption. If the plan realizes, Kazakhstan
will become the third largest uranium supplier to Japan, following
Australia and Canada.
Uranium prices are skyrocketing due to the increased demand on the
global market. Japan has the pressing need for diversifying
suppliers because of concern over short supply of the product in the
future. Visits to Kazakhstan by the METI minister and
businesspersons will be the first government-private sector
diplomacy intended to obtain uranium. Members of the delegation will
include utility companies, such as TEPCO, Mitsubishi Nuclear Fuel
Co., a leading nuclear fuel company, Toshiba Corp., which undertakes
nuclear plant facilities, and the Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National
Corporation. Most companies are expected to send CEOs.
Among Japanese companies, Sumitomo Corporation and Kansai Electric
Power Co. have already decided to begin test production in
Kazakhstan starting at year's end. Itochu Corp. has also signed a
uranium procurement contract with National Atomic Company
Kazatomprom. The agreement between the governments of the two
countries this time will in a way give approval to the
ever-expanding uranium transactions between the two countries. The
Japanese government will also provide assistance through trade
insurance.
(Corrected copy) MSDF crewman quizzed over vessel data taken out
YOMIURI (Page 39) (Full)
March 30, 2007
A Maritime Self-Defense Force petty officer second class, who is a
crewman of the Shirane, a destroyer under the command of MSDF Escort
Flotilla 1, headquartered in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, has
taken home a floppy disk that recorded information including data
about a destroyer's radar systems, sources revealed yesterday. The
floppy disk is believed to contain information classified by the
Defense Ministry. Classified information is prohibited from being
taken out.
According to investigative authorities and other sources, Kanagawa
prefectural police discovered the floppy disk at the petty officer's
home when the police searched his home early this year to charge his
Chinese wife with a violation of the Immigrant Control and Refugee
Recognition Law.
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The disk contained data about radar systems and radio frequencies.
The petty officer is now under investigation.
The Defense Ministry's classified information is categorized into
three stages-"top secret (kimitsu)," "secret (gokuhi)," and
"confidential (hi)" Leaking classified information conflicts with
the Self-Defense Forces Law.
SCHIEFFER