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SUBJECT: JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 04/25/07
1) Top headlines
2) Editorials
3) Prime Minister's daily schedule
US beef:
4) US likely to be on offensive, Japan's food safety committee to
take time
5) Washington, Tokyo come around with Bush-Abe meeting just around
the corner
6) US accepts Japanese inspections
7) US agrees to inspect meatpackers, but MAFF delays announcement
US-Japan ties:
8) Japan to assist US with atomic power plant construction
9) LDP group cancels US visit
Defense & security agenda:
10) Yokosuka, MOFA officials to visit US naval facility in
Washington State to see N-energy disaster drill
11) Aegis data proliferated from MSDF service school instructor
12) Japan, US, China to participate in joint drills
Futenma:
13) Japan to uphold Futenma accord
14) Gov't preparing to probe sea for Futenma relocation
Iraq mission:
15) Iraq bill enters into Diet deliberation
16) Over 80% of ASDF airlifts in Iraq for multinational coalition
forces
Political topics & G-8 ministerial scenesetting:
17) Gov't eyes reinterpreting Japan's top law for collective
self-defense
18) Prime Minister Abe mad at Asahi Shimbun magazine article over
Nagasaki shooting
19) Japan to host G-8 ministerial meetings in local cities
Articles:
1) TOP HEADLINES
Asahi:
FTC to investigate forest road projects ordered by Forestry Agency,
focusing on possibility of amakudari
Mainichi:
Cabinet approves bill amending Civil Service Law, which provides for
prime minister's responsibility for monitoring illegalities
Yomiuri:
Five postal companies project 587 billion yen profit in FY2011
Nihon Keizai:
Government writes off 12 trillion yen in process of special
corporations reorganized into independent ones with no clear-cut
explanation
Sankei:
Aegis data leak: MSDF lieutenant distributed copies to more than 30
students
TOKYO 00001843 002 OF 012
Tokyo Shimbun:
More than 80% of ASDF mission in Iraq is transportation of coalition
forces
Akahata:
Many call for caution in public hearings on constitutional revision
2) EDITORIALS
Asahi:
(1) National standardized tests: Efforts needed not to widen gaps in
academic capabilities
(2) Yeltsin stopped history from moving backward
Mainichi:
(1) Prime minister's visit to US: Solid Japan-US ties should be
confirmed
(2) Death of Yeltsin: Cold relations between US, Russia worrisome
Yomiuri:
(1) Yeltsin played role in dismantling Soviet Union
(2) Each party should present specific measures to rectify tax,
income gaps before Upper House election
Nihon Keizai:
(1) Conduct probing debate led by cabinet on restrictions on
amakudari
(2) Yeltsin played important role
Sankei:
(1) Death of Yeltsin: Follow his spirit of law and justice
(2) Death of Lucie Blackman: Japanese police's ability being
questioned
Tokyo Shimbun:
(1) Prime minister's first visit to US: Make efforts to cement
bilateral relations
(2) Death of Yeltsin: Uncompleted revolution must be continued
Akahata:
(1) Extension of Iraq Special Measures Law runs counter to growing
calls for US troops' withdrawal
3) Prime Minister's Official Residence (Kantei)
Prime Minister's schedule, April 24
NIHON KEIZAI (Page 2) (Full)
April 25, 2007
08:16
Met with Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary Shimomura at Kantei.
09:01
Attended a cabinet meeting in Diet. Foreign Minister Aso remained.
After Aso, met with Agriculture Minister Matsuoka.
09:18
Met with MLIT Minister Fuyushiba, and later met with Finance
Minister Omi.
09;58
TOKYO 00001843 003 OF 012
Made an informal representation to the Emperor at Imperial Palace.
11:03
Met with Deputy Foreign Minister Yabunaka, North American Affairs
Bureau Director-General Nishinomiya, Economic Affairs Bureau
Director-General Odabe, and International Cooperation Bureau
Director-General Bessho and others at Kantei.
11:56
Met with members of the champion basketball team Osaka Evessa,
joined by LDP Secretary General Nakagawa and others. Nakagawa
remained.
13:02
Attended a Lower House plenary session.
14:44
Handed the LDP's certificate of official endorsement to a candidate
expected to run in an Upper House seat in Yamagata Constituency,
joined by Nakagawa and House of Councilors member Aoki.
15:31
Responded to an interview with the US CNN TV, together with his wife
Akie.
16:37
Attended a meeting of the Council for Science and Technology
Policy.
18:00
Attended an "LDP gathering for promotion of creating a new
constitution of Japan" held at Kudan Kaikan Hall.
19:32
Attended a special cabinet meeting at Kantei.
19:58
Met with journalist Yoshiko Sakurai and others at Kantei.
4) Beef offensive bound to come; US beef import conditions to be
eased
ASAHI (Page 9) (Excerpts)
April 25, 2007
The issue of the US calling on Japan to ease its US beef import
conditions will enter a new stage with its accepting inspections of
its meat-processing facilities by Japanese experts. The US has urged
Japan to ease its import condition that limits beef eligible for
exports to cattle aged 20 months or younger to 30 months or younger.
However, a cautious view is deep-seated in Japan. The US is bound to
heighten pressure on Japan at government-to-government talks, which
will become active.
It will take time for Food Safety Commission to reach conclusion
The Japanese government has taken the position that talks will not
progress unless the US accepts Japan's request for inspections of US
meatpackers. However, now that the US has accepted the request,
Japan will find the easing of its import condition as a pressing
issue.
TOKYO 00001843 004 OF 012
If inspections confirm that US meat-processing facilities are
observing export guidelines as agreed on between the two countries,
the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare (MHLW) will end its
guidance given to importers to conduct blanket inspections of US
beef boxes. Further, if it is determined through inspections that
BSE preventive measures, such as one to prevent BSE from getting
into feed, are fully functioning, the government will likely start
procedures for easing import conditions.
Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF) Minister Matsuoka during
a press conference yesterday noted that the government would follow
domestic procedures based on the latest scientific knowledge. He
thus indicated the outlook that if the US makes a formal request
once it is recognized as a quasi-safe country, the government will
consult the Food Safety Commission of the Cabinet Office about the
propriety of easing the import condition.
However, it will take time for the panel to reach a decision. In
addition, the MHLW is cautious about the idea of easing the import
condition, while MAFF is taking a flexible stance. Views in
government circles are thus not in unity. Even if the government has
undergone procedures for easing the import condition, friction
between the two countries could recur with the US side complaining,
"Japan is trying to gain time," if the US becomes dissatisfied with
the slow progress.
5) Japan, US found common ground: US to accept beef inspections by
Japan; Japan to discuss possibility of easing import conditions
NIHON KEIZAI (Page 5) (Full)
April 25, 2007
Discussions on the easing of import conditions imposed on US beef
have gotten underway. The agriculture ministers of Japan and the US
during their recent telephone conversation agreed that the US would
comply with Japan's request to inspect meatpackers exporting
products to Japan. Japan on its part will consult the Food Safety
Commission about a possible revision of its import guidelines, based
on the premise that an international organization will recognize the
US BSE preventive measures as safe. Japan's move is apparently
intended to quell a source of bilateral contention prior to the
bilateral summit.
Japan resumed US beef imports last summer. However, the US had
rejected future inspections of its meat-processing facilities by
Japan. It has also urged Japan to scrap its import criterion that
limits products beef eligible for exports to cattle aged 20 months
or younger. Behind the US move is the fact that though Japan has
started importing US beef, the import volume remains below the
pre-ban level, giving rise to growing dissatisfaction in the US beef
industry. The import volume of US beef remains at 10% of the pre-ban
level. The age limit is also hampering shipments.
Following the agreement this time, voices noting that European
countries usually set the age limit at 30 months or younger are
beginning to be heard in the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and
Fisheries. Coordination of views on the US beef import issue will
likely be undertaken with the possibility of expanding the eligible
cattle age bracket. In conjunction with this move, the government
will also look into the possibility of taking a second look at the
present domestic BSE inspection system, which is applied to cattle
aged 21 months or older.
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The aim of making concessions prior to the summit is to prevent the
beef issue from becoming politicized so as not to incur opposition
from the public and industrial organizations. Japan and the US have
thus found a common ground. However, anxieties about and public
distrust in the safety of US beef have yet to be wiped away.
6) US agrees to allow Japanese inspections of beef exporters
SANKEI (Page 11) (Excerpts)
April 25, 2007
The government announced yesterday that the United States has agreed
to accept Japan's request on Japanese inspections of US meatpacking
plants. Under the agreement, if no problem is found in the
inspections, Japan will discontinue its requirement of checking
every box of beef shipped form US plants. The agreement would pave
the way for Japan to ease its condition of importing only beef from
cattle 20 months of age or younger. The beef row will not emerge as
a major issue at the upcoming bilateral summit on April 27.
7) US accepts inspection of meat-processing facilities: Heightening
pressure for eased age limit
MAINICHI (Page 9) (Excerpts)
April 25, 2007
Now that the US has decided to allow Japan to inspect its
meat-processing facilities, the focus of the US beef import issue
will shift to what course discussions on the easing of Japan's
import condition will take. The US has called for the scrapping of
the age criterion that limits beef eligible for exports to cattle
aged 20 months or younger. However, there is the possibility of such
a move meeting opposition in Japan. The issue is expected to
encounter difficulties.
Agreement released after four days
According to Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF) Minister
Toshikatsu Matsuoka, the agreement in principle on the
implementation of such inspection was reached on April 20 during his
telephone talks with US Secretary of Agriculture Mike Johanns.
However, Vice MAFF Minister Yoshio Kobayashi told a news conference
on the 23rd, "No agreement was reached on the implementation of
inspections. The talks ended in failure." There was a discrepancy in
the statements by Matsuoka and Kobayashi, leaving a question about
the way MAFF discloses information.
MAFF explained that it did not reveal that the agreement was reached
because coordination of views within the governments of both
countries had yet to be undertaken as of Apr. 20. Matsuoka noted
that he finally confirmed the agreement when he received a phone
call from US Ambassador to Japan Schieffer on the afternoon of the
23rd, which was after the statement issued by Kobayashi.
Reflecting the criticism it received for its response to the first
discovery of a BSE case in Japan in 2001, MAFF had pledged to
promptly provide the public with information on food safety.
8) Japan, US to promote nuclear energy policy coordination; Japan to
extend assistance to construction of nuclear power plants in US
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SANKEI (Page 9) (Excerpts)
April 25, 2007
The governments of Japan and the United States announced yesterday
that the two countries have adopted an action plan on bilateral
nuclear energy policy coordination. The plan requires Japan's
assistance to the planned construction of nuclear power plants in
the US for the first time in 30 years and both countries'
cooperation in establishing a system to ensure nuclear
nonproliferation. Under the plan, the two countries will also
conduct joint research on fast-breeder reactor technology in order
to translate into action the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership
(GNEP) initiative announced by the Bush administration. The GNEP
features resuming a nuclear fuel recycling program with the aim of
curbing nuclear proliferation and preventing the dumping of
radioactive waste. Japan and the US have also agreed to set up a
working group to discuss such matters as fast-breeder reactor
technology, ways to dispose of radioactive waste, and measures to
protect nuclear materials. The two countries plan to set up the
group in June and conduct joint studies on more complicated tasks
after establishing a basic cooperative structure over one year.
9) Parliamentary group of revisionist lawmakers cancels visit to the
US
ASAHI (Page 4) (Full)
April 25, 2007
Nariaki Nakayama, chair of the Parliamentary League to Consider
Japan's Future and History Education, a group of lawmakers of the
ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), and other members of the
league yesterday met with Chief Cabinet Secretary Shiozaki and
reported to him that the group cancelled a planned visit to the
United States. The group had planned to visit the US later this
month in order to lobby against a House bill calling on Prime
Minister Abe to apologize for former comfort women. Nakayama said:
"We wavered over the question of whether our visit to the US would
have a good effect or a negative one. We have now concluded that the
mood in Japan, including that of the media, was not necessarily good
for our visit."
10) Government delegation, including Yokosuka City officials, to
view nuclear disaster drill in US
TOKYO SHIMBUN (Page 1) (Full)
April 25, 2007
It became known yesterday that a government delegation consisting of
officials from Yokosuka City, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA)
and other government bodies, who are consulting safety measures
ahead of the planned deployment of the USS George Washington in the
US Yokosuka Naval Base in Yokosuka City, Kanagawa Prefecture, is to
observe a nuclear disaster drill to be carried out at a naval
shipyard in the State of Washington in mid-May. It is unprecedented
for the US military to make this sort of training "open" to another
country, as US forces keep information about nuclear reactors on
military ships classified as top secret.
The shipyard the Japanese delegation will inspect is the Puget Sound
Naval Shipyard near Seattle. This shipyard is known for repair and
maintenance of nuclear carriers and nuclear submarines, whose
homeports are Bremerton and Everette nearby.
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The observation of the drill is scheduled for May 16. The details of
the drill are unknown, but the drill is likely to be an actual
exercise to see whether there are any problems about actions taken
in line with the manual aimed at dealing with a disaster that
occurred in the process of repairing nuclear reactor-related parts.
Joining the inspection tour will be working-level officials from the
Japanese and US governments, the US Navy, and Yokosuka City, who are
discussing safety measures in preparation for the Yokosuka base to
be used as a homeport for a nuclear submarine to use the Yokosuka
base as a homeport. The delegation is to travel to the US on May
13-18, observe the drill, and exchange views with local
municipalities about such measures as the nuclear disaster
prevention system.
On safety measures for nuclear ships, Yokosuka City and the US Navy
in Japan have already concluded a disaster prevention pact that
includes nuclear accidents. Both sides have continued consultations
to create a "mutual assistance manual," which will specify in detail
such things as a rescue system in the event of a nuclear accident
and rescue operations. The results of the planned inspection will be
used as a reference for the creation of the manual.
11) Leaked Aegis information spread to over 30 students from
lieutenant, a former technical school instructor
SANKEI (Top play) (Abridged)
April 25, 2007
The information on the Aegis system, including its pivotal data,
taken out by a 33-year-old Maritime Self-Defense Force petty officer
2nd class, has spread because a 48-year-old lieutenant, a former
instructor at the MSDF 1st Technical School (Edajima, Hiroshima
Prefecture) allowed over 30 students to copy it before it finally
found its way to the seaman in question, according to the Nakagawa
prefectural police and an MSDF military police unit. The leaked
information that included information classified as "special defense
secrets" has again exposed the MSDF's low awareness of secrecy and
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its lax information control.
A 43-year-old lt. commander who belonged to a program development
division (already disbanded) responsible for maintaining and
managing the system compiled the essential Aegis data that leaked.
The data had been kept in files on his personal computer as teaching
materials for senior officers.
The files were repeatedly copied and they reached a 30-year old
petty officer 3rd class based at the destroyer Shirayuki of the
Yokosuka District. The petty officer 2nd class copied his all
files.
The two had been assigned to the same destroyer, the Hatsuyuki.
Consequent investigations found that the lieutenant, who used be an
instructor at the 1st Technical School, possessed files identical to
those compiled by the lt. commander. The lieutenant told
investigators that he had allowed his students to copy them as
educational materials. Investigators also found out that over 30
individuals, including his students, had copied the same files.
The petty officer 3rd class, who is unconnected with the technical
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school, is believed to have obtained the files that leaked to the
students in one way or another.
The lieutenant indicated that he had no recollection of the source
of the files. The 43-year-old lt. commander, who had also been a
technical school instructor, also possessed the same files. Because
the lieutenant did not have the files until the lt. commander
arrived at the school, investigators believe that the files
possessed by its producer were first copied by the lt. commander,
who used work as an instructor.
12) Japan, US, China to participate in joint drills
NIHON KEIZAI (Page 2) (Full)
April 25, 2007
Japan's Maritime Self-Defense Force and the Chinese navy will
participate in multilateral maritime training exercises to be
conducted in waters near Singapore on May 14-20, sources have
revealed. The joint drills are planned for the Western Pacific Naval
Symposium (WPNS) sponsored by the Singaporean navy, and this is the
first time for China to participate in WPNS sessions. The drills
will involve 10 countries, including Japan, the United States,
India, France, and Australia. The MSDF will promote mutual
understanding with the naval forces of these participating countries
through search and rescue training, target spotting and tracking
training, and other training sessions.
13) Defense minister to reveal in US Japan's determination to
maintain bilateral agreement on Futenma relocation
NIHON KEIZAI (Page 12) (Full)
April 25, 2007
When he visits the United States later this month, Defense Minister
Fumio Kyuma will relay Japan's policy of not altering the agreement
reached in May of last year between Japan and the United States on
the relocation of the US Marine Corps' Futenma Air Station. The
agreement features the construction of a V-shaped pair of runways in
a coastal area of Camp Schwab in Nago City. By revealing Japan's
determination to steadily implement the final agreement on the
realignment of US forces in Japan, Kyuma hopes to underline Japan's
stance of giving priority to the Japan-US alliance.
Defense Minister Kyuma once indicated a flexible view about
reviewing the coastal plan in response to a call from Okinawa
Governor Hirokazu Nakaima. However, Kyuma, based on the judgment
that a delay in implementing the bilateral agreement would have a
negative impact on relations with the US, has now decided to reveal
Japan's firm maintenance of the agreement during the upcoming 2+2
US-Japan security and foreign ministerial on May 1.
In the Japan-US summit set for April 27, as well, Prime Minister
Shinzo Abe and President Bush are expected to confirm a similar
principle. The two countries plan to complete the Futenma coastal
relocation plan in 2014. Officials concerned predict that it will
take three years for environmental surveys and five years for the
construction of barracks and other buildings.
14) Futenma relocation: Gov't begins preparations for sea probe
NIHON KEIZAI (Page 2) (Abridged)
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April 25, 2007
The government yesterday began preparations for probing waters in
the offing of Camp Schwab, a US military base in Nago, Okinawa
Prefecture, in order to push ahead with the planned relocation of
the US Marine Corps' Futenma Air Station in the central Okinawa city
of Ginowan to a coastal area of the camp. Probing the sea has
nothing to do with an environmental assessment survey that is
legally required for the relocation of Futenma airfield. However,
the government is now in the run-up to the Futenma relocation and
will shortly conduct a full-fledged survey of the waters with
Okinawa Prefecture's consent. The start of preparatory work is aimed
at impressing the United States with the Japanese government's
efforts to fulfill its agreement with the United States.
15) Deliberations on bill amending the Iraq Special Measures Law
begin in Lower House
YOMIURI (Page 4) (Excerpts)
April 25, 2007
An explanation of a bill aimed at extending the Iraq Special
Measures Law, which is to expire at the end of July, for another two
years was given at a Lower House plenary session yesterday and a
question and answer session about the bill followed. Discussion on
the bill has started. The ruling bloc intends to enact the bill into
law as quickly as possible. Meanwhile, the major opposition party
Democratic Party of Japan (Minshuto or DPJ) has submitted a bill
aimed at scrapping the Iraq Special Measures Law. Debates between
the ruling and opposition parties are likely to hot up ahead of the
upcoming Upper House election for this summer.
Japan has deployed some 200 Air Self-Defense Force (ASDF) troops and
three C-130 planes in Iraq. Kuwait has been used as their base for
transportation from there to Iraq. Japan also has sent about 10
senior officers to the coalition force's air operation headquarters.
Prime Minister Abe is to visit ASDF troops deployed in Kuwait on May
1 to encourage them.
In the question-and-answer session, Hideo Jinpu (of Minshuto) posed
a question. In response, Abe said: "Preventing Iraq from serving as
a breeding ground for terrorists and helping that country to recover
as a peaceful and democratic country is meaningful in view of the
stability of the international community and in the sense of meeting
our country's national interests."
16) ASDF Iraq mission: Over 80% of travel used for airlifting
coalition forces, possible aberration from basic plan centered on
reconstruction assistance
TOKYO SHIMBUN (Top play) (Full)
April 25, 2007
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in yesterday's Lower House plenary session
to discuss an extension to the Iraq Special Measures Law revealed
for the first time the contents of the Air Self-Defense Force's
activities in Iraq, saying: "The ASDF has airlifted 46.5 tons of
supplies on 150 occasions (since the Ground Self-Defense Force
withdrew from the country last July). They airlifted 706 UN workers
and 2.3 tons of UN supplies on 25 occasions."
This means that the remaining 125 flights, or 80% of the total, were
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for airlifting US-led coalition forces. Abe did not announce the
number of people.
The basic plan stipulates that SDF activities must be centered on
humanitarian and reconstruction assistance. The aerial
transportation of personnel and supplies of international
organizations, such as the United Nations, falls under this
description.
A large number of flights for coalition forces points to the
possibility of the ASDF mission's deviation from the basic plan.
Abe stressed that the airlifting of coalition forces has been
conducted in line with the basic plan, saying: "Their activities
constitute humanitarian and reconstruction assistance and security
support."
A senior Defense Ministry official also explained: "The coalition
forces have been engaged in humanitarian and reconstruction
assistance as well." But it is believed that only a small portion of
US troops in Iraq is conducting humanitarian and reconstruction
assistance, with the great majority on security duties.
17) Government to allow country to exercise collective defense by
reviewing its constitutional interpretation
SANKEI (Page 3) (Excerpts)
April 25, 2007
The government decided yesterday to allow the country to exercise
its right to collective self-defense, reviewing its constitutional
interpretation that the country posses that right but cannot
exercise it, in connection with the ongoing plan to introduce a
missile defense system to intercept incoming ballistic missiles. The
Cabinet Legislation Bureau, which has been reluctant to change the
government's interpretation, is showing a stance of approving it.
The government envisages four types of incidents to use the right:
(1) intercepting a US-targeted ballistic missile with the MD system,
(2) a counterattack by MSDF vessels in reaction to an attack on a US
vessel navigating alongside them, (3) a counterattack following an
attack on a multinational force sharing the mission, and (4) using
weapons for eliminating obstacles during UN peacekeeping
operations.
The government's expert council on collective defense is scheduled
to set up taskforces on each category to flesh out the government's
reinterpretation.
Members of the expert council
Yoko Iwama
Associate professor at the National Graduate Institute for Policy
Studies
Hisahiko Okazaki
Former Ambassador to Thailand
Yoshiyuki Kasai
Chairman of JR Tokai
Shinichi Kitaoka
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Professor at the University of Tokyo
Kazuya Sakamoto
Professor at Osaka University graduate school
Masamori Sase
Professor Emeritus at the Defense Academy
Ken Sato
Former Vice Administrative Defense Minister
Akihiko Tanaka
Professor at the University of Tokyo Institute of Oriental Culture
Hiroshi Nakanishi
Professor at Kyoto University
Osamu Nishi
Professor at Komazawa University
Tetsuya Nishimoto
Former Joint Staff Council Chairman
Shinya Murase
Professor at Sophia University
Shunji Yanai
Former Ambassador to the United States
18) Prime Minister Abe outraged at Weekly Asahi article on
assassination of Nagasaki mayor: "I'll resign if there is any
connection"
SANKEI (Page 2) (Full)
April 25, 2007
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe late yesterday blasted a Weekly Asahi
article (carried in its May 4-11 issue) for giving the impression
that the assassination of the Nagasaki mayor was related to trouble
involving the prime minister's secretary. Abe said: "It's a total
fabrication. The reporter should be ashamed of writing such a thing.
If my secretary and I were to have any connections with the shooter
and his gang, I would resign as prime minister and a House of
Representatives member." Abe strongly called on the Asahi Shimbun to
apologize.
Abe was replying to reporters at the Prime Minister's Official
Residence (Kantei). It was unprecedented for the prime minister to
protest against media reporting by referring to his course of
action.
Abe told reporters: "I was flabbergasted by the Weekly Asahi's
advertisement. My secretary and I have families and relatives, and
also children. This is an act of terrorism by means of speech and a
political campaign aimed at (toppling my cabinet) instead of
reporting the news."
The article titled "Links between the assassination of the Nagasaki
mayor and Prime Minister Abe's secretary" quotes a senior National
Police Agency official as saying that the shooting occurred while
the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department was investigating the gang
to which suspect Tetsuya Shiroo belonged to for threatening Abe's
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former secretary without providing any information about this
investigation to the Nagasaki Prefectural Police.
19) G-8 summit: Government picks Kyoto for foreign ministerial,
Osaka for finance ministerial, Kobe for environment ministerial
SANKEI (Page 2) (Excerpts)
April 25, 2007
The government yesterday chose Kyoto as the site for the foreign
ministerial meeting, Osaka for the finance ministerial, and Kobe for
the environment ministerial, all of which will be held on the
occasion of the Group of Eight (G-8) summit next summer. The Tokyo
International Conference on African Development (TICAD) to be held
next spring will be held in Yokohama.
The prime minister chose Toya Lake in Hokkaido as the site for the
G-8 summit, but many other prefectural and municipal governments had
announced their willingness to host the summit. Given this, the
government picked different locations for the foreign, finance, and
environment ministerial meetings.
DONOVAN