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SUBJECT: JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 04/26/07
1) Top headlines
2) Editorials
3) Prime Minister's daily schedule
Abe-Bush summit April 27:
4) US, Japan to sign joint statement on environment at summit
meeting
5) NSC director does not anticipate comfort-women issue coming up at
the summit meeting
6) NSC director gives assurance that US will not remove North Korea
from terrorist list without resolution of Japan's abduction issue
7) LDP bill amending North Korea human rights law to specifically
link results on abduction issue to assistance to that country
World War II issues:
8) Former Japanese soldiers testify to military "coercion" of
comfort women during WWII
9) Another diary from 32 years ago by aide to Emperor Showa reveals
imperial views, including Yasukuni Shrine and war-criminal issue
Defense and security issues:
10) Prime Minister Abe orders Cabinet Legislation Bureau to consider
new constitutional interpretation of use of right of collective
self-defense
11) Blue ribbon panel appointed by Abe to start meeting May 18
charged with reaching conclusions on collective self-defense
scenarios by the fall
12) Objections smoldering in the ruling parties to Abe's push on
collective self-defense
13) Okinawa governor tells Defense Minister Kyuma that the
environmental survey of Futenma relocation sight is on track
14) City of Yokosuka agrees to construction work to prepare for
deployment of US Navy nuclear-powered carrier
15) Defense Ministry to issue for first time long-term guidelines
for defense technology
16) METI to expand investment restrictions of foreign capital in
three areas where potential lies for military application
17) Government is balking at cooperating with Minshuto plan to make
fact-finding survey to Iraq where ASDF still operates
Political merry-go-round:
18) Abe's civil service reform bill will not likely be passed this
Diet session
19) Weekly Shukan Asahi apologizes to Prime Minister Abe in ad for
publishing an article falsely linking former aide to gangster who
shot Nagasaki mayor
20) Reconciliation reached in lawsuit by Abe against Sentaku
magazine over defamation of character article
Articles:
1) TOP HEADLINES
Asahi:
Chamberlain's dairies over 32 years depict final days of Emperor
Showa
Mainichi:
Government prepares guidelines about child-raising for parents
TOKYO 00001865 002 OF 012
Yomiuri:
Over 30% of hospitals for cancer treatment lacks experts
Nihon Keizai:
Sony to take financial unit public, raising 300 billion yen
Sankei:
Man Gyong Bong used to transport abductees, according to North
Korean agents
Tokyo Shimbun:
Panel eyed to consider collective self-defense
Akahata:
Government to set up panel to allow collective self-defense
2) EDITORIALS
Asahi:
(1) Uncover activities by North Korean agents suspected of abducting
two children
(2) Second anniversary of JR West crash: Respond to distrust among
bereaved families
Mainichi:
(1) Collective self-defense: Open debate needed
(2) JR West accident: More thorough safety measures urged
Yomiuri:
(1) Questioning executives of Chongryon necessary over abduction of
two children
(2) Seibu payoff scandal: High School Baseball Federation's
responses questionable
Nihon Keizai:
(1) Time for Japan to consider concluding FTAs with US, EU
(2) Prime minister should demonstrate own identity in Middle East
Sankei:
(1) Abe should make efforts to narrow gap in Japan-US alliance
(2) Second anniversary of JR West crash: Final report urged to
clarify causes
Tokyo Shimbun:
(1) High School Baseball Federation: New guidelines needed
(2) JR West should establish system giving top priority to safety
Akahata:
(1) One month after Noto earthquakes: Offer aid to victims
3) Prime Minister's Official Residence (Kantei)
Prime Minister's schedule, April 25
NIHON KEIZAI (Page 2) (Full)
April 26, 2007
08:51
Met with Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary Suzuki at Kantei.
09:22
Met with Kansai Economic Federation Chairman Akiyama and afterwards
TOKYO 00001865 003 OF 012
State Minister in Charge of Gender Equality Takaichi.
09:58
Met with Defense Minister Kyuma and Senior Vice Defense Minister
Kimura in Diet.
10:01
Attended an Upper House plenary session.
11:15
Met with former US Deputy Secretary of State Armitage at Kantei,
joined by MOFA's North American Affairs Bureau Director-General
Nishimiya.
12:43
Attended a ceremony in commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the
enforcement of the Constitution of Japan at the Kensei Kinenkan Hall
at Nagata-cho.
14:02
Met Deputy Foreign Minister Yabunaka, MOFA's Middle Eastern and
African Affairs Bureau Director-General Okuda, METI's Trade and
Economic Cooperation Bureau Director-General Ishida.
15:30
Met with Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary Matoba.
16:22
Attended a meeting of the Council on Economic and Fiscal Policy.
17:41
Met with Chief Cabinet Secretary Shiozaki, and later Director of
Cabinet Intelligence Mitani.
18:30
Met with Vice Finance Minister for International Affairs Watanabe,
and afterwards, Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications
Suga.
19:13
Arrived at Kantei residence.
4) Japan-US to compile joint environment paper stipulating technical
cooperation: Plan to be formally released during upcoming bilateral
summit
YOMIURI (Page 1) (Slightly abridged)
April 26, 2007
The governments of Japan and the US yesterday agreed to compile a
joint statement advocating cooperation for settling the global-scale
environment issue, including climate change caused by global
warming. The plan is expected to be formally released during the
bilateral summit between Prime Minister Abe and US president Bush on
Apr. 27. Tokyo and Washington will confirm during the talks their
determination to press ahead with close talks on the environment
issue. The Japanese government wants to pave the way for the US to
take part in the framework replacing the Kyoto Protocol, which has
set a global warming gas emissions target to be achieved by 2012 on
each party.
The joint paper "measures on energy, security, clean development and
TOKYO 00001865 004 OF 012
climate change" (tentative name) will mention technical cooperation
between the two countries, including the development of underground
carbon dioxide, substance causing global warming, storage
technology, noting that the two countries will jointly tackle
development of innovative technology.
It is absolutely necessary for the US, the world's largest CO2
emitter, to join the post-Kyoto Protocol framework. Though the US is
positive toward providing technical cooperation on the environment
issue, it is refusing to sign the post-Kyoto Protocol. The president
will unlikely refer to US participation in the post-Kyoto Protocol
during the summit.
5) "Comfort women" issue unlikely to be put on agenda for Japan-US
summit, according to a US official
TOKYO SHIMBUN (Page 2) (Full)
April 26, 2007
Yasuyuki Oguri, Washington
Meeting reporters yesterday ahead of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's
planned visit to the United States, Dennis Wilder, senior director
for East Asian Affairs at the National Security Council (NSC),
referred to the wartime "comfort women" issue and predicted that the
issue would not be taken up in the upcoming Japan-US summit set for
tomorrow, noting: "This issue has been discussed between the top
leaders of the two countries. It is unlikely to be treated as a
major topic for the upcoming summit meeting."
Wilder also noted: "Prime Minister Abe has been ironing out the
misunderstanding about the issue over the past few weeks."
Meanwhile, on the issue of Japanese nationals abducted by North
Koreans, Wilder said, "The US has no intention to separate the
abduction issue from the question of whether to remove North Korea
from the list of state sponsors of terrorism," reiterating an
intention not to respond to the call for removing that country from
the list unless the abduction issue makes progress.
6) US will not divorce the question of delisting DPRK as state
sponsor of terrorism from abduction issue
YOMIURI (Page 2) (Full)
April 26, 2007
Fumi Igarashi, Washington
Dennis Wilder, senior director for East Asian Affairs at the
National Security Council (NSC), yesterday morning told reporters
about the question of whether to delist North Korea as a state
sponsor of terrorism: "We won't divorce it from the issue of
abductions of Japanese citizens by North Korea." He thus emphasized
that the US would not remove North Korea from the list of state
sponsors of terrorists unless there is progress on the abduction
issue. In addition, Wilder indicated that in the upcoming Japan-US
summit slated for April 27, the North Korean issue would be high on
agenda for discussions.
Meanwhile, when asked about whether the summit meeting would deal
with the so-called wartime "comfort women" issue, Wilder said:
"Prime Minister Abe has done a lot of things over the past few weeks
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to dispel misunderstanding. I don't think this issue will be among
the major subjects for the summit."
7) LDP draft bill amending North Korean Human Rights Law to provide
that without progress on abduction issue, no assistance forthcoming
YOMIURI (Page 4) (Excerpt)
April 26, 2007
The Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) on April 25 completed its bill
amending the North Korea Human Rights Law so that if there is no
progress on the abduction issue, no assistance can be provided to
North Korea. The aim is back up Japan's hard-line stance so that it
will not crumble, as long as North Korea does not show a sincere
stance. The party will coordinate now with the New Komeito and
Minshuto (Democratic Party of Japan), aiming at passage of the bill
in May.
8) Former Japanese soldiers, speaking at gathering held ahead of
Prime Minister Abe's visit to US, testify to "coercion" of comfort
women (during WWII)
AKAHATA (Page 14) (Full)
April 26, 2007
The "Action Network on the Issue of Japanese Military Comfort Women"
yesterday held a press conference and an emergency rally calling on
the Diet to make a sincere apology and provide compensation. Seventy
persons gathered for the rally.
In the meeting, footages of former South Korean, Chinese and
Philippine comfort women's testifying their experiences were shown,
and former Japanese soldiers, Ichiro Koyama and Kiyoshi Sakakura,
told the audience about their own experiences.
Koyama said: "I learned of the existence of a 'comfort station' soon
after being trained as a raw recruit in China. Some 50 Chinese women
in their late teens to 30s were lined up there. Each solder picked
one from among them and went with her to a room. When our unit moved
to another place, there was also another comfort station, where I
saw six Korean women working there."
Sakakura, who revealed his story for the first time at the
gathering, described his experience that he had gone to a comfort
facility and picked out a young girl, but the girl would not stop
crying, so he had left the facility without touching her. He added:
"Prime Minister Abe's employing sophistry is no use."
A South Korean TV reporter asked the former soldiers: "Prime
Minister Abe has stated there was no evidence to prove those women
had been forced into prostitution." In response, Koyama said: "A
comrade in arms who worked as a medic and carried out a medical
examination of those women once a month told me that 'I feel sorry
for them because they were all tricked by someone to work there.'"
Angelina De Araujo (TN: phonetic), 27, who came from East Timor,
reported on testimonies by former "comfort women" living in East
Timor and their present situation. She said: "Of the 17 former
comfort women we interviewed, two have already died. I hope the
Japanese government will take every possible action to help them
recover their dignity."
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9) Chamberlain's dairies over 32 years depict final days of Emperor
Showa
ASAHI (Top Play)
April 26, 2007
The late Ryogo Urabe, who served Emperor Show (Hirohito) in his late
years and the empress, kept a diary every day for 32 years. Urabe
left the diaries with the Asahi Shimbun during his lifetime. He
recorded in detail what was happening in the Imperial Palace during
the last days of the Showa era after the emperor fell ill. Regarding
the reason why the emperor had ceased visiting Yasukuni Shrine,
Urabe noted, "He was strong displeased at the enshrinement of
Class-A war criminals." There are descriptions showing the emperor's
warm personality everywhere in the diaries, such as his regrets for
World War II and his consideration to the public. The diaries could
be a valuable record of the history of the Showa period.
The diaries depict in detail the life of Emperor Showa after he fell
ill. The emperor had indicated a strong eagerness about the planned
first visit to Okinawa in the postwar period, but the tour was
cancelled due to health reasons, according to the diaries.
There are descriptions about the cancellation of a visit to Yasukuni
Shrine. On April 28 in 1988, several days after the last press
conference by the emperor, it was noted: "I visited the Fukiage
Palace at the emperor's summon. (The emperor) referred to the
enshrinement of war criminals at Yasukuni Shine, criticism of China,
and the Okuno statement." The sentence following "Yasukuni" is
redlined.
The same date is marked on the memorandum of former Imperial
Household Agency Grand Steward Tomohiko Tomita that reveals that the
emperor had expressed his displeasure at the enshrinement of Class-A
war criminals. The diaries show that the emperor had also talked
about the problem of enshrinement of war criminals to Urabe, almost
at the same time as he did to Tomita. Urabe noted on July 31, 2001,
just before he died: "Since the emperor was unhappy about the
enshrinement of the Class-A war criminals, he stopped visiting
Yasukuni Shrine."
10) Collective self-defense: Premier orders case studies for
constitutional reinterpretation
NIHON KEIZAI (Page 1) (Abridged)
April 26, 2007
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has ordered Cabinet Legislation Bureau
Director General Reiichi Miyazaki to study reinterpreting the
Constitution to allow Japan to exercise its right to collective
self-defense in some specific cases, government sources revealed
yesterday. The government, in its constitutional interpretation, has
prohibited Japan from participating in collective self-defense. The
government announced yesterday that it would set up a panel of
experts in mid-May over the right of collective self-defense. The
panel is expected to come up with its conclusion around this fall
about specific areas where the Self-Defense Forces can exercise the
right to collective defense.
Factoring in the SDF's increased activities overseas, Abe deemed it
indispensable for the SDF to exercise the right of collective
self-defense to a certain extent within the current constitutional
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framework. The premier has ordered four case studies: 1) shooting
down US-bound ballistic missiles over Japan; 2) fighting back if and
when a US naval vessel running alongside a Japanese vessel is
attacked on the high seas; 3) fighting back if and when a foreign
country's military members come under attack while Japan's SDF
members are acting in concert with them; and 4) engaging in
rear-echelon support for foreign forces, such as transporting
weaponry. The government currently prohibits Japan from taking part
in any of these four cases.
11) Expert panel on use of collective defense to hold first meeting
on May 18 and reach conclusion on four cases by the fall
YOMIURI (Page 2) (Full)
April 26, 2007
The government announced yesterday that it would set up a panel of
experts to study specific cases of the contingencies for the use of
the right to collective self-defense. The panel called the Meeting
about Re-establishing the Legal Basis of National Security will hold
the first meeting on May 18. It will not likely reach a conclusion
until the fall as to whether the present Constitution would allow
four applications of collective self-defense, including the use of a
missile defense (MD) system to intercept ballistic missiles aimed at
the United States. Since Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has called for a
review of the interpretation of the Constitution, which bans the
exercise of the right of collective defense, the focus is now on
whether the panel will delve deep into a review of the
interpretation.
The panel, headed by former Ambassador to the US Shunji Yanai, has
13 members, including scholars and former Foreign Ministry and
Defense Ministry officials.
The issues to be discussed include: (1) whether Japan can use the MD
system to intercept ballistic missiles aimed at an ally, (2) whether
the Self-Defense Forces SDF) can counterattack when a warship from
another country sailing with a SDF vessel is attacked on the high
seas, (3) whether the SDF can counterattack when other countries'
forces are attacked while carrying out its mission, such as in Iraq
where multinational forces are deployed, and (4) whether the SDF can
provide logistical support to foreign militaries.
The government initially planned to study the use of arms separately
in order to avoid the interference with United Nations peacekeeping
operations, but it has now decided to debate such cases as the Iraqi
reconstruction assistance, including a study of the possibility of
the SDF providing logistic support to foreign forces.
12) Objections strong in LDP on changing constitutional
interpretation of collective defense; New Komeito says individual
defense right sufficient for various situations
NIHON KEIZAI (Page 2) (Excerpts)
April 26, 2007
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's decision to establish an expert council
possibly in mid-May with the aim of opening the way for exercising
the right to collective self-defense is likely to press the ruling
and opposition camps to review their basic positions regarding the
Constitution and security policy. Although establishing the
country's independent constitution is a goal of the Liberal
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Democratic Party, there is a broad range of views in the party over
constitutional revision and strengthening the Japan-US alliance. The
New Komeito, the LDP's coalition partner, is largely cautious about
reinterpreting and revising the Constitution. Consolidating views
may take time.
LDP Security Research Commission Chairman Taku Yamasaki, who keeps
his distance from Prime Minister Abe, took this view in an interview
to the Nihon Keizai Shimbun: "If the country is to exercise the
collective defense right, the Constitution must be revised. Revising
Article 9 is the correct way." Some in the LDP are supportive of
enhancing the Japan-US alliance, while some others are also opposed
to making changes to the government's interpretation of the
Constitution.
The New Komeito is also showing a mixed reaction. Secretary General
Kazuo Kitagawa in a press conference yesterday gave a warning to the
matter, saying: "The government's traditional interpretation must
not be reviewed. The matter must be discussed openly in the process
of constitution revision debate." Touching on the option of
intercepting a ballistic missile targeting the continental United
States, Kitagawa also indicated that such a case must be studied
within the framework of the individual defense right. He said: "The
country can deal with many cases within the range of its
interpretation of the individual defense right."
Meanwhile Ichiro Ozawa, president of the major opposition Minshuto
(Democratic Party of Japan) bluntly told a press conference
yesterday: "If the prime minister is to put constitutional
reinterpretation forward, he must have his own logic. Without it,
there is no use to hear other people's views."
Lower House Speaker Yohei Kono attended yesterday a commemorative
event for the 60th anniversary of the Constitution, in which he
said: "I would like to the Constitution discussed from a broad
perspective with a mind to study history humbly with a sense of
responsibility for the future of the country and its people."
Belonging to the former Kochikai led by former prime ministers
Hayato Ikeda and Shigeru Yoshida, Kono is a leading dove.
Cautious views are also rife in the former Keiseikai (currently the
Tsushima faction) led by former Prime Minister Eisaki Sato.
SIPDIS
Skepticism is deeply seated in the LDP toward the Abe
administration, which prioritizes constitutional revision and
security.
13) Okinawa governor agrees to accept prior surveys for Futenma
relocation
SANKEI (Page 4) (Full)
April 26, 2007
Defense Minister Fumio Kyuma met with Okinawa Governor Hirokazu
Nakaima and Nago Mayor Yoshikazu Shimabukuro at the Defense Ministry
yesterday. Nakaima revealed that Okinawa would accept environmental
surveys prior to the environmental impact assessment in preparation
for the planned relocation of the US Marine Corps' Futenma Air
Station (Ginowan) to a coastal area of Camp Schwab (Nago). Regarding
the plan to construct a V-shaped pair of runways, agreed on between
the governments of Japan and the United States, Nakaima, while
saying, "I have no particular objection," stressed, "I want you to
listen to local voices." He thus called on the government to give
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consideration to the Nago municipal government, which insists that
the construction site be moved further offshore.
14) Yokosuka agrees to prep work for CVN deployment
TOKYO (Page 3) (Abridged)
April 26, 2007
The city of Yokosuka in Kanagawa Prefecture has now agreed on a plan
to dredge its port in the US Navy's Yokosuka base for the USS George
Washington, a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier to be deployed to the
base. Yokosuka Mayor Ryoichi Kabaya clarified his consent yesterday
to the Defense Facilities Administration Agency's Yokohama bureau.
The work of dredging the port is indispensable for the safety of an
inbound and outbound carrier. The George Washington is scheduled to
arrive at Yokosuka in August next year for deployment. The DFAA has
now gone through legal procedures to start the dredging work, and
Yokosuka will go ahead with its readiness to host the carrier.
According to the DFAA's work plan presented to the municipal
government of Yokosuka City, the planned work is to dig down about
two meters on average to the depth of 15 meters in an area of about
30 hectares near the naval base's aircraft carrier berth. Dredged
soil, amounting to about 600,000 cubic meters, will be dumped into
the sea. The work will be completed by May next year.
15) 1st mid-, long-term guidelines out for defense technologies in
20 areas, including search robot, drone
YOMIURI (Page 2) (Abridged)
April 26, 2007
The Defense Ministry's Technical Research and Development Institute
(TRDI) yesterday worked out a report on its efforts for
future-oriented technology research as a documentation of guidelines
for defense technologies that need to be developed over the
mid-to-long term. In order to deal with newly emerging threats like
ballistic missiles and terrorist attacks, the report lists 20
technology areas, including a ground-probing robot and a
reconnaissance drone. The Defense Ministry will push ahead with
Japan's defense buildup in reference to the report.
The report sets a period of time-ranging from 5 years to 15
years-for a breakthrough in each of the 20 areas in order for TRDI
to develop technologies in these areas. For example, the report
specifies networking robots in 5-10 years. The report also suggests
the need for TRDI to develop in 5-15 years an unmanned aircraft
system that can be tasked with multiple missions, such as gathering
intelligence and engaging in combat action. In addition, TRDI
expects to develop within 10 years an advanced intelligent firepower
system that will make it possible to quicken counteractions in
individual fighting.
16) Rules regulating investment by foreign companies to be expanded:
Three more areas with technologies that can be diverted for military
use to be included
YOMIURI (Page 2) (Full)
April 26, 2007
The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) yesterday
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revealed a plan to expand business areas subject to a prior
notification system applied to foreign companies that invest in
Japan. Three more areas - advanced materials, such as special steel
and carbon fiber, etc., which can easily be diverted for military
use; material processing, such as machine tools, measuring
instruments, etc.; and key areas, such as robotics and biotechnology
- will be added to the list of regulated areas.
The aim is to ensure security by preventing the outflow of
technology in the high-tech sector. The measure will apparently be
taken also with an eye on the lifting of a ban in May on triangular
mergers, which will make it easier for foreign corporations to buy
out Japanese companies. METI's study group has compiled a report
including this policy. METI and the Finance Ministry will amend in
June the ministry ordinance and notification based on the Foreign
Exchange and Foreign Trade Control Law. A revision of the investment
rules regulating foreign companies is the first since 1991.
The existing system of obliging notification only covers companies
subject to the regulation. However, the new regulation will also
target holding companies that have regulated businesses under their
umbrellas. The government will also look into the possibility of
establishing a regulation forcing foreign corporations that
illegally purchased Japanese companies to sell off the stocks they
hold.
17) Government balks at Minshuto's request for cooperation on
fact-finding trip to Iraq; "Iraq must be very dangerous," says
Haraguchi
TOKYO SHIMBUN (Page 2) (Full)
April 26, 2007
The major opposition Minshuto (Democratic Party of Japan) asked for
the government's cooperation in conducting a fact-finding survey in
Iraq with the aim of using its results in discussing a bill amending
the Iraq Special Measures Law, but the government rejected its
request, Minshuto Lower House member Kazuhiro Haraguchi said.
According to Haraguchi, Minshuto planned a trip to Iraq and its
neighboring countries for six days from May 1 to take a firsthand
look at the safety of Air Self-Defense Force troops and the security
situation in those countries, and asked for the government's
cooperation in flying into Iraq on a C-130 transport plane.
But the Foreign and Defense Ministries responded to its request
reluctantly, saying, "The C-130 is not designed to carry lawmakers."
They also called for caution on the option of flying into the
country on a civilian plane.
Touching on past trips to Iraq by the foreign minister and ruling
party executives, Haraguchi said sarcastically: "They gave me the
impression that Iraq is really dangerous."
18) Bill amending public servant law: Enactment during current Diet
session difficult; Will likely become campaign issue for upcoming
Upper House election
NIHON KEIZAI (Page 2) (Full)
April 26, 2007
It has become difficult to obtain Diet approval during the current
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session for a bill amending the National Civil Service Law, which
features a ban on government agencies providing placement services
for their retired officials to take up cushy jobs in companies they
previously used to regulate (amakudari practice). The government
submitted the bill to the Diet on Apr. 25. However, the Lower House
will unlikely start deliberations before mid-May. The ruling parties
will carry it over to the next session, characterizing it as a
campaign issue for the July Upper House election, hoping it will be
passed into law during the extraordinary Diet session in the fall.
Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) Diet Policy Committee Chairman
Toshihiro Nikai yesterday conferred on the matter with State
Minister in charge of Administrative Reform Yoshimi Watanabe and
conveyed to him that the current Diet session's schedule is too
tight to fit in the National Civil Service Law amendment bill. The
ruling camp will instead prioritize deliberations on the national
referendum bill and three bills related to educational reform. Upper
House Diet Policy Committee Chairman Tetsuro Yano of the LDP on Apr.
23 made a proposal to Nikai, "I would like to have key bills
intended to get through the current Diet session sent to the Upper
House by three weeks before the end of the session."
As a counter-proposal, the Democratic Party of Japan plans to submit
in May an amakudari practice eradication bill (tentative name). The
bill calls for introducing stricter rules on the amakudari practice
than the government-sponsored bill.
19) Shukan Asahi apologizes to Prime Minister Abe for advertisement
YOMIURI (Page 38) (Full)
April 26, 2007
The Shukan Asahi carried in its May 4-11 issue an article that there
had been trouble between a former secretary to Prime Minister Shinzo
Abe and the suspect in the murder of the Nagasaki mayor. Abe then
criticized the weekly magazine for fabricating the article. In this
regard, the Asahi Shimbun carried in its morning edition on April 25
a statement by the magazine's chief editor Kazuomi Yamaguchi: "We
apologize for the headline of our advertisement carrying an
inappropriate expression suggesting that Prime Minister Abe has
connections with the suspect." The magazine responded to a question
by the Yomiuri Shimbun about the content of the article: "We believe
that there is no problem with the content of the article since we
carried it based on the results of an interview with a senior police
officer."
Asked about the apology article by reporters yesterday at the Prime
Minister's Official Residence, Abe expressed displeasure,
responding, "I haven't received any apology." He indicated that he
would take legal action.
Abe criticized the weekly magazine again, saying:
"There was a small article expressing something of an apology in
this morning's edition. Since the magazine carried the fabricated
article as extensive advertising, they must publish a clear apology
easy for the public to understand."
He added: "I think since I am prime minister, I should be prudent.
However, for the sake of the secretary and his family, I will
naturally take legal actions."
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20) Prime Minister Abe, Sentaku settle dispute
YOMIURI (Page 38) (Full)
April 26, 2007
A lawsuit seeking 50 million yen filed by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe
against the monthly magazine Sentaku for an article damaging his
honor was settled yesterday at the Tokyo High Court.
DONOVAN