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SUBJECT: JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 06/22/07
1) Top headlines
2) Editorials
3) Prime Minister's daily schedule
Political agenda:
4) Prime Minister Abe: If there is an election defeat, I will take
responsibility
5) Prime Minister's office wants to ease the adverse wind against
the Abe government by extending the Diet, but the ruling camp fears
the opposite
6) Opposition parties blast the ruling camp's decision to extend the
Diet session
7) Labor law with hike in minimum wage to be shelved due to lack of
time in the Diet session
Reaction to Hill visit to Pyongyang:
8) US seems frantic to achieve concrete results in six-party talks
so sends Assistant Secretary Hill to Pyongyang
9) Tokyo worried that Japan's abduction issue will be left behind in
Washington's rush to achieve nuclear results with Pyongyang
10) US promises to bring up the abduction issue with North Korea
11) Tokyo stresses US-Japan cooperation as Hill speeds to Pyongyang
Afghan aid:
12) Prime minister in meeting with Afghanistan's vice president
expresses intention to continue aid
13) Government sending fact-finding mission to Afghanistan to seek
human contribution for country's reconstruction
14) LDP league proposes tripling ODA to Africa
Defense issues:
15) Police suspect GSDF officer of having taken kickbacks in
connection with Iraq dispatch equipment
16) Leakage of Aegis intelligence involves multiple legal
infractions
Beef issue:
17) US-Japan talks next week on easing conditions for US beef
imports
18) Four opposition parties in joint appeal come out against easing
import conditions for US beef
Articles:
1) TOP HEADLINES
Asahi:
Labor ministry sees salary deduction of temp staff illegal
Mainichi & Tokyo Shimbun:
Diet session to be extended for 12 days; Upper House election to be
held July 29
Yomiuri:
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries to join French firm on US nuclear fuel
recycle project bid
Nihon Keizai:
Japanese auto makers to boost exports from bases elsewhere in Asia
TOKYO 00002823 002 OF 011
Sankei:
Secret information still possessed by many MSDF personnel
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Akahata:
Junior Chamber International Japan declines consignment contract of
"Yasukuni DVD"
2) EDITORIALS
Asahi:
(1) With three education-related laws: Education ministry must not
force uniform school education
(2) Is revised Iraq Special Measures Law a law to support Bush
administration?
Mainichi:
(1) Extension of Diet session not a good strategy for the Upper
House election
(2) Extension of SDF mission for Iraq: Time to think about an exit
strategy
Yomiuri:
(1) Extension of ASDF mission: Need for continued support for Iraq
reconstruction
(2) Cool, prudent operation of revised criminal procedure law
required
Nihon Keizai (Nikkei):
(1) A social security numbering system should be created
(2) Prime Minister Abe should seek the judgment of the people
Sankei:
(1) We support the Diet extension decision that goes with
responsibility
(2) Hill's visit to North Korea: Abduction issue must not be left
behind
Tokyo Shimbun:
(1) Tokyo spa blast: Need for safety measures for blind spot in
urban areas
(2) Highway tolls should be drastically reduced
Akahata:
Extension of Diet session: We cannot allow the arrogant Abe cabinet
to do as it pleases
3) Prime Minister's Official Residence (Kantei)
Prime Minister's schedule, June 21
NIHON KEIZAI (Page 2) (Full)
June 22, 2007
07:59
Had breakfast with Nippon Keidanren Chairman Mitarai and Tokyo
University Professor Motoshige Ito at a Grand Prince Hotel Akasaka
restaurant.
09:41
Arrived at the Kantei.
10:54
TOKYO 00002823 003 OF 011
Met with MLIT Minister Fuyushiba.
11:48
Met with Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary Matoba.
14:01
Held talks with New Komeito Head Ota. Secretary General Nakagawa,
New Komeito Secretary General Kitagawa and Chief Cabinet Secretary
Shiozaki were present. Then met with Agriculture Minister Akagi.
15:01
Attended a meeting of the National Association of Credit Banks held
at the Keidanren Hall in Otemachi.
15:38
Met with Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary Suzuki at the Kantei,
followed by Vice Foreign Minister Yachi.
16:33
Met with Nakagawa.
17:04
Central Disaster Prevention Council meeting. Then met with Afghan
Vice President Khalili.
19:00 Returned to the official residence.
4) Prime minister: I will take responsibility if LDP is defeated in
Upper House election
TOKYO SHIMBUN (Page 1) (Full)
June 22, 2007
In responding to questions from reporters at his official residence
last night, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said about the decision to
extend the current Diet session: "I decided it from the viewpoint of
what should be done for the people." He then admitted that if (the
Liberal Democratic Party) is defeated in the Upper House election,
the issue of responsibility for the prime minister, who instructed
senior LDP members to extend the session, will crop up. He said:
"The prime minister has a responsibility at all times, every day."
The prime minister criticized LDP members who are against extending
the Diet session, remarking: "My mission is to ponder what the
government should do for the sake of the people and not to consider
how technically we should win the election. Those who do not take
such a view should resign."
5) Ruling camp's concern grows over Diet extension, although Kantei
feels relieved
TOKYO SHIMBUN (Page 2) (Excerpts)
June 22, 2007
The House of Representatives will today decide to extend the current
Diet session. By extending the Diet session, Prime Minister Shinzo
Abe hopes to assuage to a certain extent public criticism of the
pension premium-payment fiasco by delaying the election by a week.
However, many lawmakers in the ruling parties are now growing more
concerned that there could be just the opposite effect and the
decision to extend might backfire.
TOKYO 00002823 004 OF 011
Chief Cabinet Secretary Yasuhisa Shiozaki explained the purpose of
the extension at a press conference yesterday: "We will definitely
be able to get the pension and national civil service bills through
the Diet."
By respectively enacting the bills removing the five-year statute of
limitations on pension claims and amending the National Civil
Service Law during the ongoing session, the Prime Minister's
Official Residence (Kantei) hopes that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe
will be able to demonstrate his achievements to the public. In
addition, the Kantei side wishes to obtain public understanding for
the government's efforts by appointing a committee on the pension
record fiasco and a third-party panel on pension payments to study
the issue.
However, concern was raised in meetings yesterday of factions in the
ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP). Foreign Minister Taro Aso
stated: "I cannot presume how the extension will turn out." Former
Finance Minister Sadakazu Tanigaki said: "There will be positive and
negative effects."
LDP Upper House Caucus Policy Research Council Chairman Yoichi
Masuzoe, who will run in the upcoming July election for another
term, blasted the government's decision to extend the session:
"The extension will do no good and a lot of harm. We will be
criticized for extending the session to hide the pension fiasco.
Minshuto (Democratic Party of Japan) will pursue the issue in the
extended session and as a result, cabinet support rating will
plunge. The prime minister is now in over his head."
An LDP Election Strategy Headquarters member took this view: "I
think cabinet support rates will not increased, even though the
voting date is delayed. Especially winning women's support that the
cabinet has now lost will be difficult."
6) Opposition camp blasts extension of the Diet, calling it the
"ruling camp's high-handedness"; Vows to further pursue the pension
issue
YOMIURI (Page 4) (Excerpt)
June 22, 2007
The opposition parties have strongly criticized the decision to
extend the current Diet session, using such terms as "the
high-handedness of the government and ruling parties." Their Diet
strategy now will be to continue to criticize such, and to pursue
the government on the pension issue even more, hoping to build more
voter support in the upcoming Upper House election.
7) Labor-related legislation likely to be carried over to next
session: LDP leadership in Upper House judges insufficient time
ASAHI (Page 4) (Excerpts)
June 22, 2007
There has appeared a strong possibility of three labor-related
bills, including an amendment to the Minimum Wage Law, being carried
over to the next session. Following the decision to extend the
current Diet session by 12 days, moves to seek passage of those
bills had emerged in the Prime Minister's Office (Kantei) and the
ruling camp. However, since the LDP leadership in the Upper House
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was negative toward the idea, the decision was made at a meeting
yesterday to put off enactment of the three bills during the current
session.
The Lower House Health, Labor and Welfare Committee had been
discussing a bill amending the Labor Standard Law to raise the
premium rate for allowances for overtime work, an amendment to the
Minimum Wage Law aimed at raiding the minimum wage and a labor
contract bill to set new employment rules.
The Kantei asked the ruling camp to pass those bills during the
current session in order to appeal the administration's stance of
tackling income disparities with the Upper House election just
ahead. The ruling camp had indicated readiness to adopt the bills
and send them to the Upper House with progress in deliberations on a
set of bills to reform the Social Insurance Agency (SIA) in the
Upper House taken into account. They had calculated that since the
Japanese Trade Union Confederation wants to see the Minimum Wage Law
amended, the bill would serve as a material to shake the Democratic
Party of Japan (DPJ or Minshuto).
However, the LDP leadership in the Upper House has judged that the
12-day extension of the Diet session would not guarantee sufficient
time for deliberations on the three bills. Tetsuro Yano, chairman of
the Upper House Diet Policy Committee of the LDP, during a meeting
of the chairmen of the Policy Committees of the ruling parties in
both Diet chambers yesterday morning categorically said, "The Upper
House will not be able to pass those bills even at the risk of our
lives."
8) Hill visits North Korea possibly in hope of concrete results;
Six-party foreign ministerial to produce statement
SANKEI (Page 2) (Excerpts)
June 22, 2007
Takashi Arimoto, Washington
US Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Hill, chief US delegate
to the six-party talks, visited North Korea on June 21 to ensure
concrete results toward North Korea's nuclear dismantlement by
holding a first six-party foreign ministerial in August to produce a
joint statement. A six-party source, however, described Hill's visit
before the North shuts down and seals its nuclear families rather
than after implementing those initial steps as a manifestation of
"panic." The North might take the initiative in future talks.
Hill visited North Korea at the request of Pyongyang, according to
the six-party talks. A direct dialogue with the North, however,
reportedly realized based on an instruction by Secretary of State
Condoleezza Rice. The source also said: "Both Secretary Rice and
Assistant Secretary Hill regard the North as not easily trustworthy.
They also think that if an agreement is reached in the foreign
ministerial, the North would follow it."
In the wake of the six-party agreement in February, Hill had
intended to hold a foreign ministerial as early as April. But his
plan fell through because of a substantial delay in transferring
North Korea's frozen funds at Banco Delta Asia in Macao. Further,
Washington's decision to return the North Korean funds in full under
Hill's leadership has drawn strong criticism within the United
States.
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President Bush has also reportedly expressed his displeasure with
the lack of progress on the six-party talks despite the US
concessions. These factors can explain Hill's need to get something
done quickly.
9) Japan fears abduction issue being left behind
MAINICHI (Page 3) (Abridged slightly)
June 22, 2007
US Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Hill's visit to North
Korea has drawn mixed reactions from the Japanese government. A
senior Foreign Ministry official expressed hope, saying, "It's a
good opportunity to get Japan's position on the abduction issue and
other matters across." At the same time, the government is concerned
that US-North Korea talks on the nuclear issue would move forward
while leaving the abduction issue behind.
After his meeting on June 20 with Administrative Vice Foreign
Minister Shotaro Yachi, Hill told reporters that he would stay in
Japan until the 21st, saying, "I have someone that I want to see."
But there is no evidence that he later met a key Japanese official.
Instead, he watched a professional baseball game at a ballpark on
the night of June 20. He apparently needed to stay longer in Japan
for his visit to North Korea.
The visit to North Korea did not crop up in Hill's talks with
Foreign Ministry officials on June 19-20, according to ministry
officials. Foreign Minister Taro Aso officially learned of the visit
in a telephone call from US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice at
9:00 a.m. June 21. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe learned of it at 6:00
a.m. that day.
According to an informed source, when Foreign Ministry Asian and
Oceanian Affairs Bureau chief Kenichiro Sasae held a meeting with
Hill on June 19, Sasae asked Hill to resume the six-party talks
after the July Upper House election, but Hill rejected it.
"Mr. Hill seemed reluctant to refer to the abduction issue," a
Foreign Ministry official said. Another official took this view:
"With the Upper House election drawing close, the Kantei (Prime
Minister's Official) is nervous about (how Hill's North Korea visit
will turn out)."
10) Government asks US to raise abduction issue
SANKEI (Page 2) (Excerpts)
June 22, 2007
US Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Hill's visit to North
Korea has drawn mixed reactions from the Japanese government, with
some expressing hopes for progress on the six-party talks and some
others concerned about the abduction issue being left behind.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe last night highlighted his plan to work in
close cooperation with the United States, saying: "The abduction
issue is something that Japan cannot compromise on. Japan will work
closely with the United States." He also said about the
denuclearization of North Korea: "We must watch closely whether or
not the North will implement the initial steps."
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Foreign Minister Taro Aso had a telephone conversation with US
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice yesterday morning ahead of
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Hill's departure for North Korea. Aso asked Rice to tell Pyongyang
that (1) Japan is ready to normalize relations with North Korea in
accordance with the Japan-DPRK Pyongyang Declaration, and (2) Tokyo
expects Pyongyang to fully address Japan-North Korea relations,
including the abduction issue. In response, Rice said: "I assure you
that Mr. Hill will raise the question of Japan-North Korea
relations."
Aso's request on the abduction issue comes from concern that the
nuclear issue would draw undivided international attention following
the direct US-North Korea talks and the abduction issue would be put
on the back burner as a result.
Administrative Vice Foreign Minister Shotaro Yachi also underlined
the importance of the abduction issue in his meeting with Hill on
June 20.
11) Government stresses Japan-US cooperation on North Korea policy,
but alarmed by US' conciliatory stance
NIKKEI (Page 2) (Excerpt)
June 22, 2007
The Japanese government has a complicated view toward the visit to
Pyongyang by US Assistant Secretary of State Hill. One the one hand,
it is hoping for progress on the nuclear issue, but it also is
alarmed that the US is easing into a conciliatory stance toward
North Korea. For Japan, the worst case scenario would be the US and
North Korea prioritizing their entering into a dialogue, leaving the
abduction issue behind. Although Japan-US cooperation is being
stressed, as seen in Foreign Minister Aso and Secretary of State
Rice urging Pyongyang to seriously deal with the abduction issue,
the truth is that Tokyo cannot conceal its anxiety about the Hill
visit.
12) Abe explains plan about continued assistance for Afghanistan in
meeting with Afghan vice president
SANKEI (Page 5) (Full)
June 22, 2007
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe met with visiting Afghan Vice President
Halili at his official residence yesterday and explained Japan's
plan to continue the fueling mission by Maritime Self-Defense Force
for the United States military and the North Atlantic Treaty
Organization (NATO) force in the Indian Ocean, as well as Afghan
reconstruction assistance including grant aid.
Prior to the meeting with the prime minister, Halili attended an
international conference for stabilizing Afghanistan held in Tokyo.
In the conference, participants agreed to step up the program for
support of the integrated disbandment of illegal armed groups (DIAG)
initiative. Foreign Minister Taro Aso pointed out the necessity for
strengthened police force, remarking: "By disbanding illegal armed
groups, it will become possible to establish the rule of the law
across the nation."
13) Government to dispatch fact-finding team to Afghanistan after
Upper House election to seek ways to provide human contribution for
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reconstruction
SANKEI (Page 5) (Full)
June 22, 2007
The government decided yesterday to dispatch a fact-finding team to
Afghanistan this summer to seek specific measures to help
reconstruct the nation. Reflecting Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's
eagerness to offer personnel contribution to stabilize Afghanistan,
officials of the Foreign Ministry and the Defense Ministry will
visit Kabul. Based on the information on the local security
situation gathered from officials of the Afghan government, the
United States military, and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization
(NATO), the two ministries will study the possibility of dispatch of
Self-Defense Force (SDF) troops or civilian police officers.
In Afghanistan, the security situation is deteriorating as terrorist
activities by the Taliban, an Islamic fundamentalist group, have
intensified. On June 17, terrorist explosions hurt two Japanese
nationals in Kabul. Since Abe promised in a NATO meeting in January
that Japan would increase support for the NATO's provincial
reconstruction teams (PRT) that facilitate reconstruction in
Afghanistan's provinces, expectations have been running high for
Japan to provide a human contribution.
In a press conference in Heiligendamm, Germany, in early June, Prime
Minister Abe emphasized: "Japan must extend personnel contribution
proactively," adding: "It is necessary for Japan, as the chair of
the G-8 summit next year, to carry out its responsibility in dealing
with international challenges."
Reflecting Abe's determination, the government has decided to send a
fact-find team to Afghanistan to learn local needs and security
situation after the House of Councillors election set for late July.
The Japanese government has offered grant aid, but it has now judged
it necessary to also offer human contribution.
For SDF dispatch, since the special antiterrorism law governing SDF
support for the US military and the NATO force in Afghanistan is not
premised on reconstruction assistance, amendments are necessary. The
Defense Ministry has also a strong desire to have the Maritime
Self-Defense Force's supply vessels and escort ships continue their
fueling mission for the US military in the Indian Ocean.
Based on a report by the team, the Foreign Ministry and the Defense
Ministry intend to cautiously map out personnel contribution
measures, but there is a possibility that only civilians, such as
police officers or representatives of non-government organizations
(NGO), will be dispatched to Afghanistan.
14) LDP lawmakers league proposes tripling ODA to Africa
ASAHI (Page 4) (Full)
June 22, 2007
The Japan-African Union (AU) Parliamentarian Friendship League,
consisting of members of the AU and LDP lawmakers and chaired by
former Prime Minister Mori, yesterday drafted a set of aid measures
aimed at tripling official development assistance (ODA) to Africa by
ΒΆ2013. The government plans to increase ODA to Africa to
approximately 1.7 billion dollars by fiscal 2007. The league noted
that it wanted to see Japan's aid to Africa increase to the world's
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highest level through positive use of yen loans in ODA to that
continent.
15) Police to quiz GSDF officer over money scandal
TOKYO (Page 1) (Abridged)
June 22, 2007
Police will question a Ground Self-Defense Force colonel in his 40s
and a Tokyo-based trading house's executives today on a charge of
bribery, suspecting that they have given and received money over the
Defense Ministry's contracts to purchase logistic equipment.
According to the 2nd Investigation Division of Tokyo's Metropolitan
Police Department (MPD) and other sources, the colonel is mainly in
charge of equipment procurement. This GSDF officer is suspected of
having received cash amounting to several hundred thousand yen in
return for giving special preference to the trading company over
repair and other contracts.
The trading company, which is headquartered in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward,
has delivered a large number of equipment items used mainly in the
rear, including outdoor cookers for GSDF members on the front.
Outdoor cookware was used by GSDF troops sent to Iraq in 2004. In
addition, the company has also delivered open-air bath units, which
were provided to people living in localities hit by the 1995
Osaka-Kobe earthquake or other disasters. Among other items
delivered to the Defense Agency, there were rice-cooking pots and
helmets. There were also cupboards and desks used at GSDF
garrisons.
According to the Ground Staff Office's public relations division at
the Defense Ministry, there are two types of outdoor cookware. One
is a trailer type, which is priced at about 8 million yen per unit.
The other is a portable type for about 1.5 million yen per unit. A
company in Hamamatsu City manufactures these cookers. The trading
company has industrial property rights pertaining to these products,
so it delivered these products on a private contract basis with
other companies precluded.
16) Many in MSDF violate regulations, possess classified info
SANKEI (Top play) (Abridged)
June 22, 2007
In connection with the recent case of information leakage, including
pivotal data about Aegis-equipped vessels, the Maritime Self-Defense
Force has discovered that MSDF personnel at the MSDF 1st Service
School-which is located in Etajima City, Hiroshima Prefecture, and
was involved in the incident of information leakage-had violated
regulations and possessed classified information in large quantities
even after the incident was brought to light, sources revealed
yesterday. As seen from this fact, the MSDF was extremely careless
about information security. In addition to the pivotal data about
Aegis ships, there was important data about other weapons and their
performance. Moreover, there was even information about fleet
operations. Such information was saved on floppy disks and other
storage media, which were left in desk drawers, according to the
sources. The incident this time shows a serious situation in which
the MSDF has still failed to carry out information control in a
thoroughgoing way.
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In the wake of the information leak, the MSDF conducted special
inspections on and after May 20, with a setup of about 60
inspectors, including those from the Maritime Staff Office, to
inspect educational units and other MSDF elements across the
nation.
At the 1st Service School, inspectors rechecked the hard drives of
computers used by instructors and MSDF trainees there. Inspectors
also rechecked other storage media, such as USB memory cards and
floppy disks. As a result, some of those MSDF trainees there were
found to have had barred data, according to an MSDF officer.
Aegis data falls under the category of "defense secret" or
"tokubetsu boei himitsu," which is the highest level of
confidentiality. In addition, those under the category of
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"classified" or "hi" include the performance of sonar systems,
torpedoes, and various other weapons, as well as antisubmarine
operations. At the 1st Service School, however, inspectors
discovered such critical information, data, and "handle-with-care"
documents.
17) Japan, US to launch talks to ease US beef import conditions as
early as next week
YOMIURI (Page 2) (Full)
June 22, 2007
It is almost certain that Japan and the US will launch talks to ease
Japan's US beef import conditions. Washington on June 22 made a
request to hold the first round of such talks in Tokyo within next
week. Tokyo is expected to accept the request shortly.
Vice Agriculture Minister Yoshio Kobayashi during a regular news
briefing yesterday noted, "We received a request from the US
government to hold a technical meeting in Tokyo to revise Japan's US
beef import conditions."
During the planned bilateral meeting, quarantine experts from both
countries will first determine the need to ease Japan's beef import
conditions, based on scientific grounds, followed by talks between
senior officials of both governments on how the import conditions
should be revised.
The government will then ask the Food Safety Commission, an
independent organization, to compile a report based on the outcome
of the talks. The likelihood is that import conditions will be eased
within the year at the earliest.
Japan limits US beef eligible for export to Japan to cattle up to 20
months in age and requires the removal of specified risk materials
(SRM). The World Organization for Animal Health (OIE), which sets
livestock safety standards, has recognized the US as a country with
a controlled BSE risk and allowed it to export beef from cattle aged
up to 30 months even without removing SRM. Following the
recognition, the US has called on Japan to extensively ease its
import conditions. The upcoming bilateral talks will likely focus on
easing the cattle age criterion to allow imports of beef from cattle
aged 30 months or younger.
18) Four opposition parties in joint rally oppose incremental easing
of restrictions on US beef imports
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AKAHATA (Page 15) (Excerpt)
June 22, 2007
Responding to the Abe Cabinet's entering into bilateral talks with
the United States on easing import conditions on US beef, four
opposition parties - Minshuto (Democratic Party of Japan), Japanese
Communist Party (JCP), Social Democratic Party (SDP), and the
Peoples New Party (PNP) - jointly held a rally last night at the
Second Diet Members' Hall in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward to oppose
incremental easing of import restrictions. Several hundred citizens
also attended, including lawmakers, consumer groups, and
representatives of domestic beef producers. The adopted a position
opposed to easing the age condition and the abolishment of subsidies
that allow blanket inspections of domestic cows for BSE. The group
concluded that compared to Japan, the safety of American beef was
extremely low.
DONOVAN