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SUBJECT: JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 10/31/08
Index:
1) Top headlines
2) Editorials
3) Prime Minister's daily schedule (Nikkei)
Political & economic agenda:
4) Prime Minister Aso announces 27-trillion-yen additional stimulus
package, not to dissolve Diet for the time being (Nikkei)
5) Prime Minister Aso eyes raising consumption tax in 3 years, going
to Washington for financial summit (Asahi)
6) Gist of Prime Minister Aso's press remarks (Asahi)
7) New Komeito party, LDP's coalition partner, unhappy with Prime
Minister Aso's decision to forgo Diet dissolution (Yomiuri)
8) DPJ prepared for showdown with ruling bench in Diet (Yomiuri)
Defense & security issues:
9) -- Japan will not comply even if asked for additional spending on
Guam relocation, Defense Minister Hamada says (Nikkei)
10) -- There will be no addition to Japan's agreed share of Guam
relocation costs: Defense Minister Hamada (Akahata)
11) -- Upper house panel thrown into confusion over Afghan
fact-finding report (Nikkei)
North Korea:
12) -- Pyongyang refuses to reinvestigate abductions (Sankei)
13) Tokyo urged to reset strategy toward North Korea (Sankei)
U.N. diplomacy:
14) Japan to apply today for continental shelf expansion (Yomiuri)
Articles:
1) TOP HEADLINES
All daily newspapers:
Prime Minister Aso willing to raise consumption tax in three years
2) EDITORIALS
Asahi:
(1) Prime Minister Aso should decide to dissolve Lower House for
snap election in order to overcome financial crisis
Mainichi:
(1) Second additional stimulus package ultimate pork-barreling
(2) Aso cannot overcome political turmoil by delaying Lower House
dissolution
Yomiuri:
(1) Aso faces uphill battle with choices he made
Nikkei:
(1) Ruling, opposition parties should quickly implement second
economic-boosting package
Sankei:
(1) Concerted effort needed for market stabilization, legal
endorsement for consumption tax hike
Tokyo Shimbun:
(1) Can second economic package provide the public peace of mind?
TOKYO 00003035 002 OF 009
(2) Dam construction projects should be reconsidered
Akahata:
(1) Second economic stimulus package cannot dispel public anxiety
3) Prime Minister's Official Residence (Kantei)
Prime Minister's schedule, October 30
NIKKEI (Page 2) (Full)
October 31, 2008
07:28
Took a walk around the private residence in Kamiyama-cho.
10:27
Met with Supreme Court Chief Justice Shimada at the Kantei.
10:41
Met with Liberal Democratic Party Deputy Secretary General Hayashi,
joined by Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary Matsumoto.
11:00
Met with LDP Youth Division Director Inoue and LDP Women's Affairs
Division Director Yamatani. Then met with Tokyo High Court Chief
Judge Takesaki.
12:58
Attended a memorial service for police officers who died on duty and
those who died when cooperating for police at Grand Arc Hanzomon in
Hayato-cho.
13:38
Arrived at the Kantei.
15:51
Attended a special meeting of LDP executives in the Diet
16:07
Attended a joint meeting at the Kantei of the government and the
ruling camp, and the economic ministers' meeting to discuss the new
economic stimulus package.
17:15
Met with LDP Secretary General Hosoda.
18:00
Met the press. Then met with Chief Cabinet Secretary Kawamura.
19:32
Met with Lowe House Speaker Kono and former LDP Tax System Research
Commission Chairman Aizawa at the Prince Park Tower Tokyo in Shiba
Park. Then attended a wedding reception for the third son of
Aizawa.
21:00
Met with Deputy Grand Master of Obara-School of Flower Arrangement
Masako Obara and Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary Konoike.
23:13
Arrived at the private residence.
4) Aso unveils additional economic pump-priming measures worth up to
27 trillion yen: Also eyes sales tax hike in three years' time; No
Lower House dissolution for time being; New Komeito agrees
NIKKEI (Top Play) (Excerpts)
October 31, 2008
The government on October 30 adopted a package of additional
economic stimulus measures to deal with the financial crisis that
started in the U.S. and the economic slowdown. The projected size,
including an expanded loan framework, is the largest-ever 27
trillion yen. Real spending (mamizu) - the total amount of spending
TOKYO 00003035 003 OF 009
minus the amount that will not involve the spending of money from
the state treasury - is approximately 5 trillion yen. So-called
hidden funds (maizokin) drawn from the special fiscal investment and
loans account will be used to finance the package to avoid issuing
deficit-covering government bonds. Concerning drastic tax reform,
Aso during a press conference held the same day revealed his plan to
hike the consumption tax no sooner than three years from now.
The title of the package is "living cost countermeasures." Its scale
significantly exceeds the 11.7 trillion yen for the comprehensive
economic stimulus package the previous Fukuda cabinet adopted in
late August to deal with the sharp rise in crude oil prices. It is
on a par with the emergency economic stimulus package compiled in
1998 by the Obuchi administration (27 trillion yen including tax
cuts). Aso's package includes assistance for family budgets designed
to boost domestic demand, the stabilization of the financial market,
and the revitalization of regional areas.
Aso also mentioned that the stimulus plan should be compatible with
recapitalization of the nation's fiscal base by avoiding
deficit-covering government bonds. However, of 5 trillion yen in
fiscal disbursements, approximately 700 billion yen will be financed
with the issuance of construction bonds. A mid-term program intended
to secure fiscal resources to finance ever-increasing social
security expenses will be compiled before year's end. Drastic tax
system reform, including raising the consumption tax, will be
implemented in stages by the mid-2010s. The prime minister during
the press conference categorically said, "I would like to hike the
consumption tax three years after the completion of drastic
administrative reform."
The prime minister yesterday evening met with New Komeito leader
Akihiro Ota at the Kantei and told him his policy of doing his best
to implement economic stimulus measures and not dissolving the Lower
House for a snap election. Emerging from the meeting, Ota told
reporters, "If you ask me whether I agreed, I would say yes. There
will be no dissolution of the Diet on the 30th or the 31st." The
prime minister said during a press conference yesterday, "Priority
should be given not to the political agenda but to policies. I must
first address the anxieties felt by the public, by realizing my
policy proposals."
5) Aso eyes consumption tax hike in three years, indicates no Lower
House dissolution soon
ASAHI (Top Play) (Excerpts)
October 31, 2008
In a press conference at the Prime Minister's Office yesterday,
Prime Minister Aso announced a new economic stimulus package worth
26.9 trillion yen, including 5 trillion yen in government fiscal
spending. He also indicated a plan to raise the consumption tax in
three year's time. On the dissolution of the House of
Representatives, he said he would put it back for a while.
The prime minister said in the press conference: "The world has been
going through a U.S.-triggered financial storm that can be even
called a once-in-a-century financial disaster. The storm will
certainly hit the Japanese economy." Aso plans to submit a second
extra budget bill to finance the stimulus measures to the current
Diet session, but he just said: "I have yet to decide on when (to
submit the bill)."
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Asked when he would dissolve the Lower House, Aso replied: "I will
make a decision at the appropriate time." He added: "The top
priority is to respond to people's concerns about their livelihoods
by implementing policies," indicating he would forgo the ruling
camp's original plan of calling a general election in November.
On the global financial crisis, Aso said he would propose in an
emergency summit to be held in Washington on Nov. 15 the following
three points as agenda items: (1) International coordination in
supervising and regulating financial institutions; (2) regulations
on rating agencies; and (3) accounting standards.
6) Main points in prime minister's press conference
ASAHI (Page 4) (Full)
October 31, 2008
(Economic conditions)
The world has been going through a U.S.-triggered financial
rainstorm that can be called a once-in-a-century financial disaster.
The storm will certainly hit the Japanese economy. I believe top
priority should be given to easing people's concerns about their
livelihoods. It is important to ensure the safety of people's
livelihoods.
(New economic package)
The new economic stimulus package includes all possible drastic
measures. The key point is speed. The government narrowed targets so
that money will not be spread around. Deficit-covering bonds will
not be issued. Under the cash-benefit system, benefits will be
delivered to all households within this fiscal year, unlike the
tax-cut formula. The benefit system is more effective in that cash
benefits will be distributed even to households who have paid no tax
or a small amount of tax. Details (on state subsidies to local
government from road-specific tax revenues) have yet to be
determined. The basic policy is to divert 1 trillion yen to
municipalities. (Whether to submit a supplementary budget bill to
the current Diet session) will be considered in managing Diet
affairs. The government has not yet decided on whether to submit the
bill to the current extraordinary Diet session.
(Consumption tax hike)
The government would like to raise the consumption tax after
carrying out sweeping administrative reform and upon carefully
watching economic conditions. I am aiming to create a nation in
which people can receive middle-level benefits by shouldering a
moderate burden. It is impossible to continue to provide
middle-level benefits by bearing a light burden. Everyone hates tax
hikes, but we must stop leaving huge debts to our children. Raising
the tax is unavoidable.
(Financial crisis)
In the emergency summit scheduled for Nov. 15, I would like to
discuss how to construct an international cooperation system to
supervise and regulate moves by financial institutions. There are
problems in rating securitized policies, and these problems
aggravated the global financial turmoil. It is necessary to discuss
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what regulations should be imposed on rating companies. It is also
important to discuss whether mark-to-market accounting is
appropriate and to what extent the basis of market prices should be
adopted. I would like to discuss these issues and see international
agreement reached.
(Lower House dissolution)
I will make a judgment at the appropriate time. I will make a
decision while taking various elements into account. I think we
fully exchanged views with New Komeito members. Our relations with
the New Komeito remain solid. A majority of the public are calling
for policy measures, particularly economic stimulus measures, rather
than a political showdown.
Many other countries must think it is extremely undesirable that the
top economic power, the U.S., and the second largest power, Japan,
have been in confusion over elections and other issues. But it does
not mean that if an election is carried out, governance will not be
undermined. The government exists. I do not think that a political
vacuum will be immediately created.
7) Dissatisfaction with Aso simmering in New Komeito
YOMIURI (Page 4) (Full)
October 31, 2008
Although the New Komeito, the coalition partner of the ruling
Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), accepted Prime Minister Taro Aso's
decision to push back a dissolution of the House of Representatives,
dissatisfaction with Aso is simmering in the party. Therefore, Aso's
decision will likely have an impact on the management of Diet
affairs and election cooperation between the two parties.
At the outset of their meeting last evening, Prime Minister Aso and
New Komeito leader Akihiro Ota shook hands with smiles. Aso said to
Ota: "I got great cooperation from the New Komeito" in compiling
economic stimulus measures. After the meeting, Ota stressed that
they had not talked about a Lower House dissolution.
However, in their meetings on Oct. 26-28, the two failed to reach a
conclusion on the dissolution issue, as Ota called for an early
dissolution, while Aso insisted that priority should be placed on
economic measures.
Therefore, it is difficult to say that the gap between the two has
been filled.
Ota yesterday commented on the postponement of a Lower House
dissolution: "Since I say we accepted, that means we approved."
Asked by reporters about the impact on the relationship between the
LDP and New Komeito, Secretary General Kazuo Kitagawa said
yesterday:
"Although we have different views on the timing of a lower chamber
dissolution, we will not give up the coalition. The relationship of
trust with the prime minister remains unchanged."
However, one New Komeito official said: "I think the prime minister
doesn't understand that supporters are preparing for the election,
even though they are having difficulties in their livelihoods." Some
New Komeito members are gradually moving away from Aso.
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Some in the New Komeito contended that although the prime minister
insisted on the passage of a second supplementary budget for fiscal
2008, if the Democratic Party of Japan resists it, he should
dissolve the Lower House.
8) DPJ to shift to confrontational stance against ruling coalition
YOMIURI (Page 4) (Excerpts)
October 31, 2008
With the postponement of a dissolution of the House of
Representatives, the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), the largest
opposition party, plans to shift to a stance of confronting the
government and ruling parties in the Diet. The DPJ will call on the
government for an early submission of a second supplementary budget
for fiscal 2008. It has depicted a strategy of forcing an early
Lower House dissolution during Diet debate.
When asked by reporters about the second economic stimulus package
Prime Minister Taro Aso unveiled yesterday, DPJ Secretary General
Yukio Hatoyama last night strongly criticized it, saying:
"It is the ultimate pork-barrel largesse and election measure. Even
if the government carries out such an economic package, the public
will not loosen their purse strings if it plans to raise the
consumption tax in three years. The package will not bring about
positive economic effects."
Asked about deliberations on the second extra budget, Hatoyama
simply said: "We haven't heard anything about revenue sources. So,
even if we are asked for cooperation, it will be difficult for us to
do so."
The DPJ approved the first supplementary budget for fiscal 2008 and
cooperated on the passage of a bill amending the new Antiterrorism
Special Measures Law with an early Lower House dissolution in mind.
However, since its hopes were dashed, the DPJ has now decided to
shift its strategy. In deliberations on the new antiterrorism bill,
the DPJ is demanding the presentation of documents on a fact-finding
survey the government conducted in Afghanistan in June, while
brandishing the threat of invoking the right of the Diet under the
Constitution to investigate state affairs. The party also is
pressing the ruling coalition to accept its demand without studying
it in deliberations on a bill revising the Financial Functions
Strengthening Law.
However, the DPJ intends not to prolong deliberations for a long
time for fear that there could be a public backlash if it delays
debate amid the business slump.
9) Japan not to comply with request for additional spending on Guam
relocation: Hamada
NIKKEI (Page 2) (Full)
October 31, 2008
Defense Minister Yasukazu Hamada attended a House of Councillors
Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee meeting yesterday, in which he
indicated that Japan would not comply even if there is a request
from the United States for additional spending on the relocation of
U.S. Marines from Okinawa to Guam. "I will not change it," Hamada
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stated before the committee. The Japanese government has agreed with
the U.S. government to pay 6.09 trillion dollars as a ceiling in its
burden sharing of the costs for the Marines' Guam relocation.
10) Defense Minister Hamada says Japan will not change amount agreed
with U.S. on Guam relocation
AKAHATA (Page 2) (Full)
October 31, 2008
The cost of constructing a new U.S. Marine Corps base in Guam based
on a plan to realign U.S. forces in Japan is likely to grow 1.5
times the amount agreed upon between Japan and the United States.
Touching on Japan's share regarding this matter, Defense Minister
Yasukazu Hamada said yesterday: "We have no intention to change our
(assertion)." He was replying to a question form Satoshi Inoue of
the Japanese Communist Party in an Upper House Foreign and Defense
Affairs Committee meeting.
The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) unveiled in
September the Marine Corps' estimate that the cost of the new Guam
base would swell from the 10.2 billion dollars (approximately 1
trillion yen) -- the amount agreed upon between Japan and the United
States -- to 15 billion dollars (1.5 trillion yen).
Tokyo and Washington agreed (in 2005) that of it, Japan would bear
6.1 billion dollars (600 billion yen). The government has explained
this amount as "(Japan's) upper limit."
Inoue said that there is no need (for Japan) to bear the cost, while
indicating that there has been no international case in which a
country injected taxpayers' money into a project to construct a base
outside the country for foreign forces. He also said: "There is no
room for talks (with the United States) or consideration on the
amount exceeding the upper limit."
11) Upper House committee meeting thrown into confusion over data on
report by fact-finding team to Afghanistan
NIKKEI (Page 2) (Full)
October 31, 2008
A meeting yesterday of the House of Councillors' Foreign Affairs and
Defense Committee was thrown into confusion over the contents of a
report submitted by a team dispatched in June to see the feasibility
of dispatching Self-Defense Forces (SDF) troops to Afghanistan. In
response to a request by the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), the
government submitted data regarding the report at a committee
directors' meeting yesterday morning. The data listed the
investigated matters, including the present state of routes used to
transport necessary materials for troops from various countries. But
the report included no details, noting that Japan's relationship of
trust with countries concerned will be seriously damaged.
In a question-and-answer session, DPJ member Yukihisa Fujita
complained: "This is not a report but just a table of contents."
Chief Cabinet Secretary Takeo Kawamura repeatedly said: "The team
members met officials there on the condition that details should not
be publicized. We had better not unveil specific contents."
Following this, the meeting was suspended temporarily.
Committee Chairman Toshimi Kitazawa (DPJ) claimed: "As long as you
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treat us like children by saying everything is under wraps, we
cannot hold deliberations." Fujita also argued: "I would like to ask
the government to resubmit the data by invoking our right to
investigate state affairs." The matter will be discussed between the
ruling and opposition camps.
The committee has decided to summon key figures as unsworn witnesses
before the Diet on Nov. 5. A vote on a bill to extend the Maritime
Self-Defense Force's refueling mission in the Indian Ocean has also
been deterred to the 6th or later.
12) Failed reinvestigation pledge forces Japan to revamp North Korea
strategy
SANKEI (Page 5) (Abridged slightly)
October 31, 2008
Now that North Korea's pledged reinvestigation into the fate of the
Japanese abductees is effectively back at square one, the government
finds it necessary to reformulate its strategy toward North Korea.
Following the U.S. delisting of North Korea as a state sponsor of
terrorism, Pyongyang has made it clear that it will ignore Japan.
With no prospects in sight, the Aso administration is apparently
struggling to deal with North Korea.
In the government's abduction issue taskforce meeting held on Oct.
29, Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary Iwao Uruma indicated that the
government would consider additional sanctions on North Korea while
examining the effectiveness of the past sanctions. He said: "The
bottom line is whether or not we can apply pressure to North Korea
to drive it into a tight corner. We need to come up with innovative
ideas."
Prime Minister Taro Aso said to the press corps yesterday: "Dialogue
and pressure are the basics in negotiating with North Korea, and how
to strike a balance between the two is always a challenge. The topic
(of the reinvestigation) has not moved forward since (the Japan-DPRK
working-level talks) in August. We are going to consider the matter
while monitoring it."
At the Oct. 29 meeting, Uruma also noted: "In order to get the
Japanese government's message across, we will not be able to make
North Korea take action unless we develop a channel to a special
organ directly connected with the North Korean party and military."
The Prime Minister's Office's statement that can be taken to mean a
review of the North Korea strategy is partially attributable to the
fact that the United States has removed the North from its terrorist
blacklist and set the stage for energy aid. A Japan-DPRK relations
source predicted: "Now that North Korea can obtain sufficient energy
aid without Japan, Pyongyang will accelerate moves to ignore
Tokyo."
13) North Korea rejects the pledged abduction reinvestigation,
telling China that it is "merit-less"
SANKEI (Page 1) (Excerpts)
October 31, 2008
North Korea has informed China that it would not implement the
pledged reinvestigation of the fate of the Japanese abductees as
"merit-less," Japan-DPRK relations sources said yesterday. North
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Korea's policy has been conveyed to Japan via China, according to
the sources. The government has begun taking actions to review its
sanctions on North Korea to apply effective pressure to the North.
The Foreign Ministry also plans to aim at new channels, reversing
its approach to the North that has been solely dependent on
diplomatic channels.
According to what was revealed by Japan-DPRK sources as an account
by a person connected with the Chinese embassy in Tokyo, when a
high-ranking Chinese official exchanged views with a senior North
Korean official in September, after Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda
announced his decision to step down, the former asked the latter if
North Korea had an intention to begin the pledged reinvestigation of
the fate of the Japanese abductees. In response, the senior North
Korean official was quoted as saying: "Even if an investigation
committee was set up, the Japanese people would not be convinced
with any kind of results. The reinvestigation would not bring any
merits (to North Korea)."
14) Government today to decide to apply to UN for extended
continental shelf
YOMIURI (Page 2) (Full)
October 31, 2008
The government will hold a meeting of the Comprehensive Ocean Policy
Headquarters (chaired by Prime Minister Aso) on October 31. It is
expected to decide to shortly apply for UN recognition of the seabed
near Japan, which greatly exceeds the nations in terms of land area
(approximately 380,000 square kilometers), as belonging to Japan.
The area includes the seabed stretching to the east of
Minamitorishima (Marcus Island), the easternmost island of Japan,
and the seabed stretching to the south of the Okinotorishima, the
southernmost island of Japan.
It has been confirmed that there are in the said area submarine
hydrothermal mineral deposits, which contain rich mineral resources,
such as copper and rare metals, and methane hydrate, which is
drawing attention as an alternative energy source. If the
application is granted, the seabed where Japan can develop natural
resources would increase drastically.
Japan will make the application based on the UN Convention on the
Law of the Sea, which it ratified in 1996. The Convention
acknowledges coastal countries' right to develop the continental
shelves and the undergrounds surrounding their countries, defining
the 200 nautical mile seabed from the coast of coastal countries as
the continental shelf belonging to them. The Convention also
stipulates that if coastal countries scientifically prove that
continental shelves further the 200 nautical mile zone are
contiguous and the UN Continental Shelf Limits Committee recognizes
it, the extended continental shelf can be recognized.
SCHIEFFER