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SUBJECT: JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 04/11/07
TOKYO 00001577 001.2 OF 010
1) Top headlines
2) Editorials
3) Prime Minister's daily schedule
Chinese Premier Wen off to Tokyo:
4) Chinese Premier Wen to arrive in Japan today
5) Japan-China summit today, joint statement expected for bilateral
cooperation on environmental, other issues
6) Japan, China to team up for energy research
7) Business world's eyes on Chinese premier's visit to Japan
China ties:
8) Prime Minister Abe plans to visit China this year
9) LDP's Kato, Yamasaki to leave for China on April 27
Iraq & Russia ties:
10) Visiting Iraqi Prime Minister al-Maliki says there is no need to
set timetable for US troop pullout
11) Russia ready to cooperate with Japan on atomic energy
12) Moscow negative about territorial settlement with Japan
DPRK issues:
13) Prime Minister Abe urges Pyongyang to translate its nuclear
abandonment into action
14) No headway, no unfreezing: Prime Minister Abe
15) Foreign Minister Aso pessimistic about North Korea's nuclear
facility shutdown before time is up
16) MOF reminds Japanese banks of North Korea sanctions
Political topics:
17) Diet to intensify debate after "Golden Week" holidays in May on
USFJ realignment, educational reform, Iraq assistance, NSC
installation
18) Ruling coalition proposes voting tomorrow on USFJ realignment
legislation
19) Koizumi totally denies coming back into office as premier
Economic topics:
20) Japan cautious about 3rd-party participation in WTO talks over
China piracy
21) Japan to explain rate hike at G-7 meeting in D.C.
22) Japan to set store on Africa with ODA projects
Articles:
1) TOP HEADLINES
Asahi, Mainichi, Sankei, and Tokyo Shimbun:
Macao monetary authority unfreezes North Korean-linked funds; US
announces support for step
Yomiuri:
Ruling camp puts off plan to revise 300-day clause on babies born to
divorced mothers
Nihon Keizai:
Daiei to sell 31% stake in OMC; SMFG eager to purchase
Akahata:
Ruling coalition propose taking vote on constitutional revision bill
tomorrow; 22 bar associations opposed to legislation
TOKYO 00001577 002.2 OF 010
2) EDITORIALS
Asahi:
(1) Producing terminal care guidelines an urgent task
(2) Growing acquittals point to need for prosecutors to review their
stances
Mainichi:
(1) Having terminal care guidelines is not enough
(2) Relief measures for Kanemi oil victims not an end to deadly
syndrome
Yomiuri:
(1) Morals as a school subject: Numerical evaluation unfit for inner
feelings
(2) North Korea sanctions card must be used effectively
Nihon Keizai:
(1) Bank of Japan must offer detailed explanations on prices and
monetary policy
(2) Japan must demonstrate strong leadership in support for Iraq
Sankei:
(1) Wen Jiabao's "ice-melting trip" to Japan
(2) Terminal care guidelines include many challenges
Tokyo Shimbun:
(1) Terminal care guidelines must save patients and doctors
(2) Technical cooperation on natural gas essential
Akahata:
(1) Constitutional revision bill must not be put to vote
3) Prime Minister's Official Residence (Kantei)
Prime Minister's schedule, April 10
NIHON KEIZAI (Page 2) (Full)
April 11, 2007
09:01
Attended cabinet meeting in the Diet building. Justice Minister
Nagase remained in the office.
09:48
Met at Kantei with Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary Matoba, followed
by JCCI Chairman Nobuo Yamaguchi.
10:29
Met again with Matoba.
11:05
Met with Dominican Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit.
12:03
Visited Nichido Art Gallery on the Ginza.
12:29
Returned to Kantei.
14:00
Met with Ambassador to China Miyamoto, Foreign Ministry Asian and
TOKYO 00001577 003.2 OF 010
Oceanian Affairs Bureau chief Sasae, joined by Chief Cabinet
Secretary Shiozaki.
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15:05
Met with Vice Finance Minister Fujii and Vice Minister for
International Affairs Watanabe. Met afterwards with LDP Lower House
member Yasuhide Nakayama, member of the group to implement reform
plan.
16:06
Met with Vice Defense Minister Moriya and Defense Intelligence
Headquarters Chief Mukunoki. Moriya remained in the office.
16:32
Met with International Court of Justice President Higgins, joined by
ICJ Judge Hisashi Owada. Met later with LDP Acting Secretary General
Ishihara.
17:13
Attended Overseas Economic Cooperation Council meeting.
18:10
Met with Justice Minister Omi.
19:08
Met at his official residence with LDP Secretary General Nakagawa,
General Council Chairman Niwa, LDP Upper House Chairman Aoki, and
Shiozaki.
4) Chinese premier to arrive in Japan today
NIHON KEIZAI (Page 1) (Full)
April 11, 2007
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao will officially visit Japan for three
days from April 11. He is expected to meet today with Prime Minister
Shinzo Abe to come up with a joint statement to substantiate an
agreement to build a strategic and reciprocal relationship that
China and Japan reached when Abe visited Beijing last October. The
joint statement will include starting regular charter flights
between Haneda and Shanghai this year, as well as lifting China's
import ban on Japanese rice in July. The statement will also
stipulate that the two countries should face the history issue
squarely, like last November's joint press statement. Wen will be
the first Chinese premier to visit Japan since then Premier Zhu
Rongji came to Tokyo in October 2000.
5) Japan, China to issue joint statement pledging cooperation on
environment at today's summit
YOMIURI (Page 2 (Full)
April 11, 2007
Prime Minister Abe and Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao will likely reach
an agreement on cooperation on the environment and energy during
their summit today and issue a joint paper separately.
Regarding other bilateral pending issues, such as North Korea and
wartime history, final coordination is now underway for the
compilation of a joint paper incorporating specific measures based
on the perception of a strategic reciprocal relationship, which they
agreed on when Abe visited China last October. The Chinese side
TOKYO 00001577 004.2 OF 010
wants to release a joint statement, which is higher in status than
the joint press release issued at the summit last October. However,
Japan's stance is that it is not necessary to draft such a statement
unless progress is made over the issue of jointly developing gas
fields in the East China Sea, as a senior Foreign Ministry official
noted.
This is the first visit of a Chinese premier to Japan since Zhu
Rongji came in Oct. 2000.
6) Japan, China to include in joint statement cooperation on energy
issue
YOMIURI (Page 2) (Full)
April 11, 2007
Economy, Trade and Industry Minister Amari and National Development
and Reform Commission (NDRC) head Ma Kai will meet after the
Japan-China summit today. They are expected to sign a joint energy
statement. According to the full text of the statement revealed
yesterday, the Institute of Energy Economics, Japan, and the NDRC
Energy Research Center will introduce in cooperation the legal
consolidation and tax systems of Japan, which is ahead of China in
terms of energy conservation, to China to help it formulate an
energy policy.
The two countries will also set up an energy conservation and
environmental business promotion committee consisting of
bureau-director-level officials responsible for energy conservation
policy. They will agree on the promotion of the private-sector-level
transfer of energy-conserving technologies from Japan to China.
They will also agree that the governments of both countries
designate such business activities as model projects and obligate
involved companies to submit progress reports, thereby keeping an
eye on trouble over the possible infringement of intellectual
property rights and the collection of the cost for the transfer of
such technologies between private companies.
7) China to curtail preferential policy for foreign capital:
Business circles paying attention to premier's visit to Japan
TOKYO SHIMBUN (Page 9) (Full)
April 11, 2007
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao will visit Japan today. The eyes of
Japan's business circles are on China's new policy of curtailing its
preferential measures for foreign companies. They are also keenly
interested in what sort of cooperative system Japan and China will
set up on the environment and energy conservation. They are fixing
their attention on statements to be made by Wen.
The Japan Business Federation (Keidanren) carried out a survey this
March on about 200 member companies regarding questions they want to
ask Wen. Most companies cited the change to China's trade and
foreign capital usage policy last November, as well as the
environment and energy conservation.
China has pressed ahead with a policy of actively introducing
foreign capital since 1992 and strengthened exports by expanding
production on the strength of cheap labor. However, in the policy
switch this time, it has defined the role of foreign capital as
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providing technology that will lead to beefing up China's domestic
industrial structure, such as the introduction of state-of-the-art
technology and advanced management know-how. It has decided to
select foreign capital by limiting or rejecting the advance of
foreign companies that fail to clear its standards on energy
conservation and water consumption. It has also decided to impose
the same corporate taxation system as applied to domestic companies
on foreign companies, revising the preferential corporate tax rate
currently imposed on foreign companies.
Such measures could press Japanese companies operating in China to
take a second look at their investment policy. For this reason
Keidanren will pay attention to the Diet speech and speech at a
luncheon hosted by economic organizations Wen will deliver on the
12th. They are eager to discern China's true intentions.
8) Prime Minister Abe announces in meeting with Chinese premier that
he will visit China this year
YOMIURI (Page 1) (Full)
April 11, 2007
Prime Minister Abe plans to visit China this fall or afterward. Abe
will convey the plan to Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao when Abe meets
with Wen today at the Prime Minister's Official Residence (Kantei).
Abe's planned visit to China is for mutual visits by the top leaders
of Japan and China so that bilateral relations improved by his China
visit last October will be more solidified. Abe wishes to pave the
way for an early visit to Japan by Chinese President Hu Jintao.
Wen is expected to invite Abe to visit China during today's meeting.
Abe will reveal his plan to travel to China in the form of
responding to Wen's invitation.
The Chinese government expects that Abe will visit China, after
making it clear that he will not pay homage at Yasukuni Shrine on
such occasions as the shrine's fall festival. Abe, however,
refrained from revealing his stance on whether to visit the shrine.
He intends to carefully make a decision on when to go to China.
9) LDP's Kato, Yamasaki off for China on April 27
SANKEI (Page 5) (Full)
April 11, 2007
Koichi Kato, former secretary general of the ruling Liberal
Democratic Party (LDP), and Taku Yamasaki, former LDP vice
president, will make a five-day trip to China from April 27, Sankei
learned yesterday. The two senior LDP lawmakers reportedly plan to
meet with Chinese State Councilor Tang Jiaxuan and see the North
Korean border from the Chinese side.
10) Maliki denies need for setting timetable for US withdrawal
TOKYO SHIMBUN (Page 3) (Full)
April 11, 2007
Visiting Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki indicated yesterday
that there is no need to set a timetable for a withdrawal of US
troops from Iraq, saying, "There is no need for a timeline for (US)
withdrawal." He revealed this view in a press conference held at the
Japan National Press Club in Tokyo.
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Maliki took a negative view about setting a timeframe for (US)
withdrawal, saying: "We are working hard to realize (US) withdrawal
as soon as possible. Requesting a withdrawal is a democratic right.
Actually deciding on a withdrawal depends on our level of confidence
in the process of handing security control (over to the Iraqi
government)."
11) Russia energy policy head expresses hopes for closer cooperation
with Japan on nuclear energy
NIHON KEIZAI (Page 9) (Full)
April 11, 2007
The Japan Atomic Industrial Forum opened its annual convention in
the city of Aomori yesterday. Russia's Federal Atomic Energy Agency
head Sergei Kirienko in a speech expressed his willingness to
promote cooperation with Japan on nuclear energy. Kirienko disclosed
a plan to construct an aluminum plant and nuclear power plant at the
same site in the Russian Far East. He added: "The site is located
near Japan, so we want Japanese manufacturers to study the
possibility of cooperation."
12) Russian presidential assistant: There is no peace treaty between
Japan and Russia, but it does not hinder bilateral economic
cooperation
MAINICHI (Page 2) (Full)
April 11, 2007
Naoya Sugio, Moscow
Russian Presidential Assistant for International Affairs Prikhodiko
stated in a press conference yesterday: "Although Russia and Japan
have no peace treaty, bilateral economic cooperation projects have
not been prevented." With this, Prikhodiko indicated that he was
reluctant to resolve the territorial row. President Putin has said
that the two countries should find a solution that will be
acceptable to both sides. However, the presidential assistant's
remark can be taken as a change in the Russian presidential office
that hopes to leave the peace treaty issue up in the air.
Prikhodiko said: "It is not right to set a settlement of the
territorial dispute as a condition for improving bilateral ties."
13) Abe urges North Korea to take steps for nuclear abandonment
NIHON KEIZAI (Page 9) (Full)
April 11, 2007
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, touching on the unfreezing of North
Korea-linked funds at a Macao bank, urged Pyongyang last night to
take steps swiftly for nuclear abandonment, saying: "The environment
surrounding North Korea will not change unless it delivers on its
promise made at the six-party talks (in February) to take specific
steps for nuclear abandonment." He was responding to a question from
a reporter at his official residence.
14) Abe: Japan will not lift sanctions on North Korea unless there
is progress on nuclear, abduction issues
ASAHI (Page 4) (Full)
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April 11, 2007
Touching on the fact that the government has extended its economic
sanctions on North Korea, including the ban on port calls by North
Korean ships, for another six months in reaction to Pyongyang's
nuclear test last year, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said: "There has
been no visible progress on the nuclear, missile, and abduction
issues. We will not lift the sanctions unless there is progress on
those issues." He thus indicated that Japan would not lift its
sanctions unless North Korea makes positive responses to those
issues. He was speaking to reporters at his official residence.
Abe also urged the North to swiftly implement what was agreed on at
the six-party talks (in February), saying: "In the six-party talks,
North Korea promised to take specific steps for nuclear elimination.
The environment surrounding North Korea will not change unless
Pyongyang delivers on its promise."
15) Aso: Having North Korea shut down nuclear facilities by deadline
"extremely difficult"
YOMIURI (Page 4) (Full)
April 11, 2007
In a meeting of the House of Councillors' Foreign and Defense Policy
Committee yesterday, Foreign Minister Aso said: "Prospects are
extremely dim that North Korea could implement the first steps
toward denuclearization (by the deadline)" as agreed on in the
six-party talks on Feb. 13, such as shutting down and sealing
nuclear facilities in Yongbyon within 60 days. He replied to a
question by Minshuto (Democratic Party of Japan) member Shinkun
Haku.
North Korea has refused to hold talks on its nuclear issue, citing
the lack of progress in the return of DPRK-linked funds frozen at
Banco Delta Asia in Macao. The United States Department of the
Treasury issued a statement early on April 10, local time,
indicating that the BDA issue would be resolved shortly. In the
government, however, many officials remain skeptical about North
Korea's moves.
Even if the BDA issue is settled, it will be necessary to resume the
six-party talks before North Korea implements all the first steps,
including holding talks on compiling a list of all North Korea's
nuclear programs. But since Chinese Foreign Vice Minister Wu Dawei
is scheduled to visit Japan together with Premier Wen Jiabao, it
seems difficult to resume the talks by the end of this week.
16) MOF calls for thorough implementation of sanctions against DPRK
NIHON KEIZAI (Page 5) (Full)
April 11, 2007
The Ministry of Finance (MOF) again called on banking institutions
yesterday to thoroughly implement the ban on carrying out payments
for imports from North Korea. This move came to response to the
government's decision to extend the term of the sanctions against
North Korea for another six months. The ban on transactions has been
in place since last October. If banking institutions handle
remittances, they need to make sure whether they are payments for
imports from North Korea or not.
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17) Battle between ruling and opposition parties to further
intensify after Golden Week holidays over US force realignment,
revitalization of education system, Iraq assistance, establishment
of a Japanese-style NSC
SANKEI (Page 5) (Full)
April 11, 2007
At a meeting yesterday of the Lower House Security Committee, the
ruling parties suggested taking a vote on April 12 on a special
measures bill for the realignment of the US Forces Japan (USFJ), in
addition to the national referendum bill. Although the opposition
camp is opposed to this move, the ruling bloc intends to stick to
the confrontational stance in dealing with other key bills as well.
The ruling and opposition camps are already intensifying their
battle in the Diet as the election campaign for the Upper House will
in effect start after the consecutive holidays in May.
The ruling bloc is poised to take a vote on the national referendum
bill and the special measures bill for the realignment of the USFJ
by the end of the week, even single-handedly. With the Upper House
election set for this summer, it is practically impossible to extend
the current ordinary session of the Diet. "We can no longer respond
to the opposition parties' tactic of delaying deliberations on the
bills," said Toshihiro Nikai, chair of the Diet Affairs Committee of
the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP).
In order to speed up deliberations on three bills related to the
revitalization of education as highlighted by Prime Minister Shinzo
Abe, the ruling parties plan to set up a special committee in the
Lower House. They aim to take a decision on this establishment at a
plenary session on April 12.
On the other hand, some bills have already faced difficulties in
being enacted into law at an early date. For instance, the bill
extending the Special Measures Law on Reconstruction of Iraq for
another two years appears unlikely to clear the Lower House by April
26, when the prime minister departs for the United States, because
the Lower House Security Committee dealing with that bill is
prioritizing the handling of the special measures bill for the
realignment of the USFJ at present.
Following that bill, the committee needs to handle the bill amending
the Security Council Establishment Law in preparation for the
establishment of a Japanese-style national security council (NSC).
Bills relating to the reform of the public servant system, on which
the confrontation between the government and the ruling parties is
continuing, have not yet been introduced to the Diet. The ruling
parties are likely pressed to reduce the number of bills they intend
to get enacted into law during the current Diet session in the days
ahead.
In contrast, the major opposition Democratic Party of Japan
(Minshuto), aiming to prolong deliberations, has submitted
counterproposals to such key bills as the three bills related to the
revitalization of education. An impotent feeling, however, is afloat
in the party, with a mid-level member saying, "We will be eventually
overridden by the weight of numbers." Some in the party are shifting
emphasis to the upcoming Upper House election.
18) US force realignment bill may clear Lower House Security
Committee tomorrow
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NIHON KEIZAI (Page 2) (Full)
April 11, 2007
The ruling coalition proposed to the opposition camp yesterday that
the Lower House Security Committee take a vote on a US force
realignment promotion bill tomorrow. The opposition camp opposed the
proposal, citing a lack of deliberation time. They will discuss the
matter again today. Meanwhile, Liberal Democratic Party Secretary
General Hidenao Nakagawa, Diet Policy Affairs Committee Chairman
Toshihiro Nikai, and others met in the Diet building and confirmed a
policy course of taking a vote on the legislation at the Lower House
Security Committee on April 12 and at a Lower House plenary session
on April 13. This has increased the chances for the bill to clear
the Lower House before the end of this month.
19) Former Prime Minister Koizumi categorically rejects possibility
of return to power
MAINICHI (Page 5) (Full)
April 11, 2007
Takenori Noguchi
Former Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi of the ruling Liberal
Democratic Party (LDP) last night dined with first-term Lower House
members of the party at a noodle shop in Tokyo. According to one
participant, Koizumi rejected the call for him to return to office,
saying: "I rule out that possibility 100%." When asked about the
Upper House election slated for this summer, Koizumi reiterated his
notion that even if the LDP fails to keep a majority, Prime Minister
Shinzo Abe will not have to resign, noting: "Given that the party
holds a majority of seats in the Lower House, the current
administration will stay on even if the party loses (in the Upper
House election)."
The noodle shop is located near the Public Dormitory for Lower House
Members in Takanawa. Koizumi has been a frequent visitor at the shop
even while he was in office as prime minister. Ahead of the closing
of the dormitory at the end of May, Koizumi, who lives in the
dormitory, and first-term lawmakers living in the same dormitory
gathered together for a farewell party.
20) Japan cautious about US request to take part in its talks with
China as third party over piracy
MAINICHI (Page 11) (Full)
April 11, 2007
The US has asked Japan to take part in its talks with China over
piracy as a third party. However, with Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao's
visit to Japan starting today, the Japanese government will for the
time being remain cautious in determining whether to accept the US
request for cooperation, as Economy, Trade and Industry Minister
Akira Amari put it. It will consider how to respond later. Japan has
thus far cooperated with the US as a third party when it filed a
complaint with the WTO over China's export subsidy issue.
21) Japan to explain interest rate hike in G-7 starting on April 13
TOKYO SHIMBUN (Page 8) (Excerpts)
April 11, 2007
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A meeting of Group of Seven (G-7) finance ministers and central bank
governors will start in Washington on April 13. The participants
will exchange views about the impact of the United States economy
saddled with a housing loan issue on the global economy and its
future, as well as the delayed reform of the Chinese yuan and the
current depreciating value of the yen, at which European countries
are greatly dissatisfied. After the G-7 meeting, discussion will be
conducted, also joined by some oil-producing countries, on the state
of certain oil producers' augmented funds owing to recent oil price
rises.
Finance Minister Koji Omi and Bank of Japan Governor Toshihiko Fukui
will attend the meeting from Japan. They will explain that the
Japanese economy has been on the recovery track, as well as why the
benchmark interest rate hike on Feb. 21 was needed.
22) Government to give priority to Africa in ODA policy
ASAHI (Page 4) (Full)
April 11, 2007
The government's Overseas Economic Cooperation Council, chaired by
Prime Minister Abe, decided yesterday to offer official development
assistance (ODA) to Africa on a priority basis, as part of the
challenges Japan will tackle prior to an annual meeting of the
leaders of the major industrial countries (G-8 Summit) Japan will
host next year. Focusing on Africa as a reservoir of natural
resources, such as oil and precious metals, Japan will help it build
infrastructure in the public health area, such as measures to
contain infectious diseases, and promote resources exploitation.
Japan also plans ministerial visits to Africa.
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