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SUBJECT: JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 06/12/07
Index:
1) Top headlines
2) Editorials
3) Prime Minister's daily schedule
4) GOJ panel backs collective self-defense for US naval vessels
5) Panel discusses defenses for US naval vessels, favors collective
defense
6) DPJ stands above LDP in Asahi poll with this summer's House of
Councillors election ahead
7) Foreign Minister Aso says Japan, Russia must give way to each
other on northern territory issue
8) Prime Minister Abe's special advisor to join race for House of
Councillors seat
9) GOJ deregulatory panel to focus on labor, farm markets in its
year-end report
10) Ex-MOFA bureaucrat appointed Grand Chamberlain to H.M. the
Emperor
11) Prime Minister Abe to set up 3rd-party panel on unpaid benefits
for pensioners
12) Successive health, welfare ministers to be on the hot seat
13) British daily reports Kim Jong Il cannot walk more than 30
meters
14) Pro-Pyongyang General Association of Korean Residents in Japan
(Chongryun) sold its headquarters' landed property to ex-PSIA
chief's investment advisory company
15) Tokyo to start radio program for North Korean people
16) Bomb maniac arrested
Articles:
1) TOP HEADLINES
Asahi:
Goodwill to withdraw from nursing care market
Mainichi:
Chongryon sold in late May to investment management firm led by
former Public Security Intelligence Agency chief
Yomiuri:
24 North Korean defectors in Japan remain stateless
Nihon Keizai:
LDP seeks tax break on inheriting family businesses
Sankei:
Metropolitan Police search medical services firm on suspicion of
violating Medical Parishioners Law
TOKYO 00002627 002 OF 010
Tokyo Shimbun:
Abe orders top priority be given to crosschecking 14 million pension
payment records not entered in SIA computers
Akahata:
Koike calls for greater investigation to resolve "lost pension
issue"
2) EDITORIALS
Asahi:
(1)Tight tobacco regulations essential for reducing cancer risk
(2)Heavy debtors need assistance
Mainichi:
(1)Political Funds Control Law revision raises question about prime
minister and ruling camp's commitment
(2)Japan-Australia relations: Japan must explain its strategic
intention
Yomiuri:
(1)More research vital for reducing suicide rate
(2)MD in Europe: Russia needs cool response
Nihon Keizai:
(1)Comsn users need continuous services
(2)Continued GDP growth
Sankei:
(1)We do not want to see another Comsn
(2)Embryonic stem cells: Japan needs to nurture basic technology
Tokyo Shimbun:
(1)School buildings need greater quake resistance
(2)Police scandals undermine public trust
Akahata:
(1)Politics responsible for profit-driven Comsn operations
3) Prime Minister's Official Residence (Kantei)
Prime Minister's schedule, June 10 & 11
NIHON KEIZAI (Page 2) (Full)
June 12, 2007
-- 10th
11:46:
Met Secretary General Nakagawa at his official residence.
16:20:
Arrived at his private residence in Tomigaya.
16:56:
Took a walk for about 20 minutes around his residence with his
wife.
-- 11th
08:31:
Attended a meeting of the Decentralization Reform Promotion
Headquarters at the Kantei.
09:00:
Called at the Crown Prince's Palace to sign his name on the get-well
TOKYO 00002627 003 OF 010
book for the Crown Prince.
09:16:
Met at the Kantei with Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary Suzuki.
11:00:
Attended an Upper House plenary session.
12:05:
Attended a government and ruling camp liaison conference at the
Kantei. Later, met Chief Cabinet Secretary Shiozaki, Internal
Affairs and Communications Minister Suga, and Health, Labor and
Welfare Minister Yanagisawa.
13:00:
Attended an Upper House's Accounts Committee meeting.
16:12:
Met at the Kantei with Environment Ministry's Earth Environment
Bureau Director General Minamikawa and Assistant Deputy Chief
Cabinet Secretary Saka. Followed by Economic and Fiscal Policy
Minister Ota, Special Advisory Nemoto, and others. Ota stayed
behind.
16:45:
Met Shiozaki and Ota.
17:01:
Attended an executive meeting in the Diet building.
17:33:
Attended an informal gathering at the Kantei on reconstructing a
legal basis for security.
19:48:
Dined with Nippon Keidanren executives, including Chairman Mitarai,
at a French restaurant in the Grand Prince Hotel Akasaka.
21:40:
Met Lower House members Keiji Furuya and Masahiro Imamura at the
hotel.
22:13:
Returned to his official residence.
4) Blue-ribbon panel leans toward allowing SDF to exercise
collective defense right in response to attack on US warship
NIHON KEIZAI (Page 2) (Abridged slightly)
June 12, 2007
The government's blue-ribbon panel on the legal foundation for
national security, chaired by Shunji Yanai, met yesterday to discuss
the Maritime Self-Defense Force's response to an attack on a US
vessel operating on the high seas. The dominant view was that the
SDF should be allowed to exercise the right to collective
self-defense to strike back not only in response to an direct armed
attack on Japan, in which the SDF is allowed to strike back by
exercising its right to individual defense, but also in highly tense
situations and peacetime.
An attack on a US warship in international waters is one of the four
scenarios Prime Minister Shinzo Abe presented to the panel
concerning the right to collective defense. The SDF launching
counterattacks in joint exercises or in tense situations, such as
contingencies in areas surrounding Japan, is likely to be regarded
as an act of exercising the right to collective defense. For this
reason, many indicated that only the collective defense right rather
than an expanded individual defense right can explain the SDF's
response and that the current interpretation falls short of US
expectations.
Some on the panel also concluded that in the event Japanese and US
TOKYO 00002627 004 OF 010
troops are on the same mission, the SDF should be allowed to
exercise the collective defense right irrespective of the nature of
the situation, and that troops of friendly nations, such as
Australia, should be included in the SDF's scope of defense.
5) Panel discusses defense of US ships; Most members support
collective defense
ASAHI (Page 4) (Full)
June 12, 2007
A government advisory panel to study the right of collective
self-defense met yesterday at the prime minister's office. In the
meeting, the panel, as directed by Prime Minister Abe, discussed
whether the Self-Defense Forces should be allowed to fight back if
and when US naval vessels come under attack in international waters.
The panel met with former Ambassador to the United States Shunji
Yanai presiding. According to Yanai, most of the panel opined that
it would be natural to explain this case as an act of exercising the
right of collective self-defense.
At the outset of the panel meeting, Abe stressed: "From the
perspective of the alliance between Japan and the United States,
it's extremely helpful to study counteractions for our country's
vessels." The government specified five cases in which the US
military could come under attack, such as: 1) when an SDF vessel is
refueling a US naval vessel at sea in bilateral joint training
exercises; 2) when an SDF vessel is sealifting logistic supplies for
US naval vessels; and 3) when an SDF vessel is inspecting ships at
sea.
The government has so far taken the position that Japan will base
its response on the right of individual self-defense. However, one
of the panel's members said it would be difficult for the SDF to
make a judgment on the spot. Another panel member noted, "What Japan
can do within the scope of the government's constitutional
interpretation might fall short of the United States'
expectations."
In the last meeting of the panel, the prime minister suggested the
need for the government to define a brake on SDF activities.
Concerning this suggestion, one panel member insisted: "If we
reinterpret the Constitution to exercise the right of collective
self-defense, that should be based on a political judgment." Another
said, "The government will have to ask for the Diet's judgment as
well as the people's judgment in the process of making a law to
stipulate guidelines for Japan to exercise the right of collective
self-defense."
The panel is scheduled to hold its next meeting on June 29 and
discuss what to do about a ballistic missile that may be headed for
the United States.
6) Poll: DPJ stands at 29 percent, LDP at 23 PERCENT
ASAHI (Page 1) (Abridged)
June 12, 2007
Ahead of this summer's election for the House of Councillors, the
Asahi Shimbun conducted its fifth telephone-based serial public
opinion survey to ask respondents which political party they would
vote for in their proportional representation blocs if they were to
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vote now. In response to this question, 29 percent picked the
leading opposition Democratic Party of Japan (Minshuto), with 23
percent choosing the ruling Liberal Democratic Party. The DPJ stood
above the LDP for the first time. The LDP was at 28 percent, 31
percent, 26 percent, 24 percent, and 23 percent in the five serial
polls so far, while the DPJ was at 21 percent, 21 percent, 25
percent, 23 percent, and 29 percent. The DPJ stood above the LDP in
the survey this time, with less than a month before the election's
official announcement. The support rate for the cabinet of Prime
Minister Abe was 34 percent. The Abe cabinet's support rate, which
continued to drop over the past two weeks up to the last survey (30
percent), appears to have leveled off.
The serial survey is conducted every weekend on a computer-aided
random digit dialing (RDD) basis. In the survey this time, valid
answers were obtained form 1,038 persons (60 percent).
7) Foreign Minister Aso: Japan, Russia should make compromise on
Northern Territories
YOMIURI (Page 4) (Full)
June 12, 2006
Foreign Minister Taro Aso, referring to the disputed Russia-held
islands off Hokkaido that are claimed by Japan, at a foreign policy
forum held on June 10 in the city of Sendai stressed his view that
Japan and Russia should compromise to resolve the Northern
Territories issue. He stated: "Russia should compromise in some
fashion and Japan should do so. The two countries should find ways
to meet halfway."
Aso also said:
"Japan has asserted for 60 years that unless the issue of the four
islands is resolved, Japan will do nothing with Russia. But this
policy has not produced any achievements. Japan should take
advantage of its strong points, including its economic strength."
The foreign minister indicated that Japan would be able to extract
compromises on the territorial row from Russia by supporting the
Russian economy. He, however, said, "Japan has to continue insisting
that it is violation of international law that the four islands were
seized after the end of World War II."
Aso referred last December to the idea of setting a boarder between
the two countries by dividing the entire area of the four islands.
8) Nakayama to seek proportional representation seat
NIHON KEIZAI (Page 2) (Full)
June 12, 2007
The Liberal Democratic Party decided yesterday to field Kyoko
Nakayama, 67, special advisor to the prime minister on the abduction
issue, for the proportional representation segment in this summer's
House of Councillors election. Nakayama, meeting the press at LDP
headquarters, cited her strong desire to bring back Japanese
abductees from North Korea to Japan as her reason for deciding to
run in the race, adding that she would remain as the prime
minister's advisor.
9) Deregulation panel to focus on labor, agriculture in second
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deregulatory package
ASAHI (Page11) (Excerpts)
June 12, 2007
The government's Council for Regulatory Reform, chaired by Nippon
Yusen K.K. Chairman Takao Kusakari, plans to grapple with reforms in
labor, agriculture, independent administrative corporations, and
other areas that will unavoidably meet resistance from relevant
government agencies. The panel intends to incorporate these tasks in
its second package of recommendations due out later this year,
though it sidestepped such challenges in its first report released
late last month. An adverse wind, though, is blowing against
regulatory reform recently, so it remains to be seen whether the
panel will be able to win the public over.
The panel was just inaugurated this January. In its first report,
the panel focused on the areas on which Prime Minister Abe places
emphasis, such as a "second chance" program.
In discussion on the second package, the panel is likely to give
priority to measures to ease restrictions in the labor market, such
as a review of the Worker Dispatch Law, to expand the management of
hospitals by joint-stock companies, and to reform agricultural
cooperatives.
In reviewing the Worker Dispatch Law, a measure to abolish
restrictions on the period of dispatch has been proposed, but many
are opposed to it, arguing that the measure would lead to the
permanent use of temp staff. The panel was also forced to put on
hold a measure to introduce a white-collar exemption system due to
fierce public reaction.
10) Yutaka Kawashima named new grand chamberlain to the Emperor
MAINICHI (Page 3) (Slightly abridged)
June 12, 2007
The Imperial Household Agency has informally decided to appoint
Grand Master of the Ceremonies Yutaka Kawashima, 65, to be the
successor to Grand Chamberlain to the Emperor Makoto Watanabe, 71,
who will retire voluntarily. The appointment of Kawashima will be
formally decided at a cabinet meeting soon and it will be announced
on June 15.
Kawashima, a former administrative vice foreign minister, entered
the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1964, after leaving the law
faculty of the University of Tokyo in mid-course. He became
administrative vice minister in August 1999, after serving in such
posts as director general of the Foreign Policy Bureau and
ambassador to Israel. In August 2001, however, he was sacked by
Foreign Minister Makiko Tanaka with whom he locked horns. He was
also forced to take responsibility for a series of scandals in the
ministry, including the secret diplomatic funds embezzlement. He has
been serving as grand master of the ceremonies since July 2003.
11) Prime minister: Third-party panel will be set up on unpaid
benefit cases this month
ASAHI (Page 1) (Full)
June 12, 2007
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Prime Minister Abe announced yesterday that the government would set
up a third-party committee in the Internal Affairs and
Communications Ministry by the end of June to examine cases of
unpaid benefits. The panel, composed of lawyers, licensed tax
accountants, and other experts, will set up consultation service
counters at regional offices across the nation. Based on data
submitted by policyholders, the panel will judge whether benefits
should be paid or not. More than 20,000 people are expected to file
applications.
In a government and ruling parties liaison conference yesterday, the
prime minister explained the third-party panel plan, stressing, "We
would like to establish an organ that can restore public trust." In
a meeting of the House of Councillors' Account Committee the same
day, Abe indicated that the government would not insist on the need
for evidence, remarking: "Even if people are told to bring receipts
issued 20 or 30 years ago, they usually cannot. If explanations are
rational, we will take responsible measures."
In special consultations conducted by the Social Insurance Agency
during the period between August of last year and March of this
year, about 20,000 declared they paid insurance premiums, but
payments were rejected on the basis that there were no records.
12) Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary: "Successive welfare ministers'
responsibility should be clarified" over pension fiasco
ASAHI (Page 4) (Full)
June 12, 2007
In a press conference yesterday, Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary
Hirofumi Shimomura revealed that the Internal Affairs and
Communication Minister's panel to examine the cause and
responsibility for the sloppy management of pension records would
clarify the responsibilities of not only the Social Insurance Agency
directors general and officials but also the relevant cabinet
ministers, saying, "The successive cabinet ministers are no
exception." The panel will survey the circumstances around 1997,
when the agency introduced a single policy number system. The focus
of study is likely to be on the responsibilities of former Prime
Minister Koizumi, New Komeito Vice President Tsutomu Sakaguchi, and
Democratic Party of Japan (Minshuto) Acting President Naoto Kan.
Liberal Democratic Party Secretary General Hidenao Nakagawa said in
a press briefing yesterday, "There must not be any taboo." Prime
Minister Abe told reporters at the Kantei last night: "A thorough
study will be conducted first. Later, we must consider political
responsibility."
Date of assumption of office Name of cabinet minister (Cabinet)
Jan. 1996 Naoto Kan
(Hashimoto)
Nov. 1996 Junichiro Koizumi
(Hashimoto)
July 1998 Sohei Miyashita
(Obuchi)
Oct. 1999 Yuya Niwa
(Obuchi, Mori)
July 2000 Yuji Tsushima
(Mori)
Dec. 2000 Tsutomu Sakaguchi
(Mori, Koizumi)
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Sept. 2004 Hidehisa Otsuji
(Koizumi)
Oct. 2005 Jiro Kawasaki
(Koizumi)
Sept. 2006 Hakuo Yanagisawa
(Abe)
13) Is North Korean leader Kim healthy?
TOKYO SHIMBUN (Page 7) (Abridged)
June 12, 2007
Kyodo, London
A British daily, the Sunday Telegraph, reported from Beijing on June
11 that government officials from Western countries have reported
that North Korean General Secretary Kim Jong Il has fallen ill and
that he is unable to walk even 30 yards (27 meters) without a rest.
Kaname Fukuda, Seoul
According to South Korea's Yonhap News, the South Korean National
Intelligence Service (NIA) yesterday referred to rumors that North
Korean leader Kim Jong Il has fallen ill and said, "He has chronic
illnesses, such as heart ailments and diabetes, and a decline in his
physical strength because of aging cannot be ruled out." But it
stressed, "There is no evidence that his chronic illnesses are so
aggravated that he cannot get around."
The NIA gave this account in a discussion with political desks of
major South Korean media.
14) Chongryon found to have sold its headquarters and land to
private company headed by ex-PSIA chief
MAINICHI (Top play) (Full)
June 12, 2007
The General Association of Korean Residents in Japan (Chongryon) had
sold its headquarters building and land (at Fujimi in Chiyoda Ward,
Tokyo) at the end of May, sources revealed. The buyer was an
investment management company headed by a former chief of the Public
Safety Intelligence Agency (PSIA), a government body tasked with
monitoring Chongryon. This deal is certain to give rise to doubts as
to process and background of the purchase.
According to the registers for land and buildings, the land (some
2,390 square meters) and the 10-story concrete building with two
basement levels (whose floor space totals 11,700 square meters) were
sold on May 31. The new owner of this property is Tokyo-based
Harvest Toshikomon KK (Harvest Investment Management Company).
According to the corporate register, this company was founded last
September for such business purposes as investment management and
moneylending.
On April 19, one month before the sale of the property, the
representative director of the company was changed from a man living
in Bunkyo Ward, Tokyo, to Shigetake Ogata (73), former PSIA
director-general. On that day, the company's address also shifted
from Tokyo's Chuo Ward to the address of Ogata's residence in Meguro
Ward.
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Given the local government tax on the headquarters' property (some
42 million yen annually including the city planning tax), the
assessed value of fixed assets is likely to exceed 2 billion yen.
Even after the sale of its property, the headquarters continues to
operate in the same place. The headquarters' property had been given
the same treatment as that given to foreign diplomatic missions and
had been exempted from the local government tax on property. The
Tokyo metropolitan government decided to impose the tax on the
headquarters, but Chongryon failed to pay the tax by the due date.
The metropolitan government seized the land and the building.
Opposing this action, Chongryon brought a case seeking the reversal
of taxation. The case is on trial. Meanwhile, Chongryon paid the tax
in several installments. The metropolitan government released the
property on April 26 before the sale.
Chongryon has since November 2005 been ordered by the Resolution and
Collection Corporation (RCC), which took over bad loans from 16
credit unions affiliated with Chongryon, such as the now-defunct
Chogin Tokyo Credit Union, to pay back 62.8 billion yen in
borrowings. The Tokyo District Court is to hand down a ruling on
June 18 to Chongryon.
Ogawa became a public prosecutor in 1960, and after serving in such
posts as public prosecutor at the Supreme Public Prosecutors' Office
and director of the Supreme Public Prosecutors' Office's Public
Safety Department, he served as director-general of the PSIA for two
years beginning in July 1993. He retired as superintendent public
prosecutor at the Hiroshima High Public Prosecutors' Office. He is
now a lawyer. The Mainichi Shimbun yesterday asked for an interview
with Ogata via his lawyer's office or his relatives, but no answer
was obtained as of today. Chongryon has refused to comment.
15) Japan to start radio broadcasting toward DPRK to step up
pressure
SANKEI (Page 30) (Excerpts)
June 12, 2007
As part of the efforts to deal with the abduction issue, the
government will begin shortwave radio broadcasts aimed at North
Korea in July, sources revealed yesterday. The Investigation
Commission on Missing Japanese Probably Related to N. Korea has been
authorized by the government to send messages on shortwave from
Japan, and North Korean defectors living in South Korea have "Radio
Free North Korea." Radio Free North Korea will open a Japan office
in Tokyo in late June as a base to collect information. The radio
offensive against North Korea is likely to be further strengthened.
The government intends to appropriate 134 million yen for this
broadcasting project. The government's plan is to create its own
programming and broadcast it via a third country's radio station
with which the government will contract. The 30-minute program will
be produced in Japanese and Korean and will be broadcast twice a
day.
The program will include encouraging words toward abductees living
in North Korea and information from other countries, as well as
messages from abductees' families living in Japan. The contents of
the program will be updated every week.
16) Man arrested on suspicion of producing bombs at home
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TOKYO SHIMBUN (Page 29) (Full)
July 12, 2007
The Public Security Bureau of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police
Department yesterday arrested Yoshihiro Terasawa, 38, on suspicion
of violating anti-explosives regulatory rules (production and
possession). The Public Security Bureau believes that Terasawa may
have produced bombs as a hobby. Terasawa is unemployed.
According to the police, Terasawa allegedly bought such chemical
agents as acetone and ethanol, raw materials for bombs, over the
Internet in April and May. He also allegedly produced at his home
about 96 g of an explosive called triacetone triperoxide (TATP) and
kept the explosive in a glass bottle. He reportedly has admitted to
the charges.
The Public Security Bureau had investigated Terasawa based on
information that he purchased materials for handmade bombs. Police,
seizing other chemicals, will try to determine whether he had tried
to make more explosives.
According to the bureau and other sources, TATP is a highly
efficient explosive used for suicide bombings overseas. TATP was
used in July 2002 by someone to blow up part of the platform at
Kokusai-Tenjijo-Seimonmae Station in Tokyo. The force of the
explosive Terasawa made this time around reportedly is three-times
stronger than what was used in 2002. Since it is possible to make
such a bomb by chemicals available in the market, the bureau has
been on alert.
According to the bureau, Terasawa, single, lives with his family and
has worked at a supermarket, a telecom company, and at other jobs.
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