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SUBJECT: JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 11/26/08
Index:
1) President-elect Obama's economic dream team likely to escalate
demands on Japan (Tokyo Shimbun)
Defense and security affairs:
2) Government plans to expand cooperation with NATO, fund weapons
disposal in the former Soviet Union bloc, and possibly line up
assistance to Afghanistan (Nikkei)
3) Government's basic plan for outer space will expand defense use
(Nikkei)
4) Japan to provide 600 million yen in assistance to victims of
cluster bombs (Yomiuri)
Political agenda:
5) Prime Minister Aso announces delay of submission of second
supplementary budget until early next year during regular Diet
session (Nikkei)
6) Opposition camp against extending the Diet session (Mainichi)
7) Aso alarmed by sharp reaction to his decision to delay second
extra budget from opposition Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) and
even within his own party (Yomiuri)
8) Bills related to the second extra budget will not be adopted soon
and may even be scrapped (Nikkei)
9) DPJ, angry at Aso dilatory tactics, ready to submit its own
economic package to the Diet (Mainichi)
10) Views of junior and mid-level LDP lawmakers split on issue of
second supplementary budget (Mainichi)
11) Distrust between Aso and DPJ head Ozawa escalates as war of
words continues (Nikkei)
12) Government uncertain about whether progress on abduction issue
will result from restarted Six-Party Talks and alarmed at U.S.' soft
stance toward DPRK (Tokyo Shimbun)
Articles:
1) Obama's economic team may intensify pressure on Japan
TOKYO SHIMBUN (Page 8) (Full)
November 26, 2008
Masakazu Furukawa, Washington
U.S. President-elect Barack Obama announced the lineup of his
economic policy team in a press conference yesterday, as well as
unveiled plans to reveal the outline of a planned economic stimulus
package that is said to be worth 700 billion dollars, or about 68
trillion yen, within a few weeks. The announcement of members of his
economic team before naming key members shows his eagerness to
address economic issues on a priority basis, out of a strong sense
of alarm at a further downturn of the U.S. economy.
He has named heavyweights with a sufficient experience and a proven
track record as members of his economic team. Lawrence Summers, who
has been appointed to chair the National Economic Council (NEC),
successfully turned the U.S. economy around as treasury secretary in
the Clinton administration. Owing to his policy, the U.S. economy
enjoyed good times over a long term.
New York Federal Reserve Bank President and treasury
TOKYO 00003235 002 OF 009
secretary-designate Timothy Geithner devoted himself to containing a
financial crisis in cooperation with Treasury Secretary Henry
Paulson. Former Federal Reserve Board Chairman Volcker, who is said
to have established the foundation for economic expansion by
stemming inflation under the Carter administration, is included in a
team of economic advisors. Even so, there is concern that a
large-scale economic stimulus package could push down the values of
the dollar and U.S. government bonds as a result of fiscal deficits
expanding and eventually negatively affect the global economy.
Investment in projects from the long-term viewpoint, such as
education, cannot be expected to take effect immediately.
Meanwhile, economic policy giving priority to domestic industries
might lead to intensified pressure on foreign governments. Summers
made severe requests mainly for economic stimulus measures to Japan
after the burst of the bubble economy. In the Obama administration,
too, he may come up with harsh demands to Japan, which has sunken
deeper into recession.
2) Japan to expand cooperation with NATO
NIKKEI (Page 2) (Full)
November 26, 2008
The government is planning to expand cooperation with the North
Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). Specifically, Japan will offer
to financially help NATO with its efforts to scrap weapons in former
Soviet Union constituents and East European countries and to lay
down ordnance control in Afghanistan. The government is ready to
strengthen Japan's channels to NATO, which has been conducting
public security operations in Afghanistan. This move is likely in
preparation for Japan's future assistance with Afghan
reconstruction.
Meanwhile, Prime Minister Taro Aso has also insisted on the
necessity of cooperating with NATO. In May 2006, when Aso was
foreign minister, he addressed a NATO council meeting in Brussels.
He was the first Japanese minister to speak there, and he then set
about strengthening dialogue with NATO.
NATO has been working to scrap unnecessary weapons and landmines in
former Soviet Union member states and East European countries in
order to prevent them from going into the hands of terrorists. Japan
will outlay about 100,000 euros (approximately 12.3 million yen) for
these undertakings. This funding cooperation is intended for NATO
activities in such countries as Georgia and Ukraine. The government
will continue to assist NATO with its efforts there next year and
afterward.
Another pillar of Japan's funding cooperation to NATO is ordnance
control in Afghanistan. NATO is currently in a hurry to introduce
security and monitoring systems for arsenals and ammunition depots
in order to improve public security in Afghanistan. This spring,
Japan, in order to back up such efforts, outlaid 3 million euros
(approx. 369 million yen), about 50 PERCENT of the total costs, for
such purposes as renovating ordnance storages.
Many in the government presume that the United States will ask Japan
to make additional contributions for Afghan reconstruction after the
Obama administration comes into office. However, the government will
need legislative measures in order for Japan to send the
Self-Defense Forces to Afghanistan. In this case, the hurdle is
TOKYO 00003235 003 OF 009
considerably high. Given such circumstances, the government's plan
to expand Japan's cooperation with NATO also means a defense to fend
off the United States' possible request for Japan's SDF dispatch to
Afghanistan.
3) Gov't eyes expanding Japan's use of space for defense
NIKKEI (Page 2) (Full)
November 26, 2008
A government taskforce for Japan's space activities and
strategies-headed by Prime Minister Taro Aso-will set forth its
first masterplan. According to an unveiled outline of the
masterplan's basic course of action, the government plans to use
outer space for Japan's national security within the bounds of its
defense-only posture and push ahead with space diplomacy focusing on
technological cooperation with foreign countries. In addition, the
government will also utilize Japan's space technologies in order to
elucidate the mechanisms of earth environment changes.
The outlined basic course of action classifies Japan's future space
policy into five pillars. In addition to the use of outer space for
national security and the promotion of space diplomacy, the basic
course of action suggests the need to bolster Japan's space policy
from such aspects as: 1) constructing infrastructure for the public,
including an intelligent transport system (ITS); 2) developing
strategic industries in the 21st century; and 3) investing in
mankind's dreams and in the next generation.
4) Japan to endow cluster bomb victims with 600 million yen
YOMIURI (Page 2) (Full)
November 26, 2008
Foreign Minister Nakasone will deliver a speech at a signing
ceremony that is scheduled to be held in Oslo on Dec. 3 for a treaty
banning cluster bombs. According to his draft speech revealed
yesterday, Nakasone will announce that Japan will contribute 6
million dollars (approximately 600 million yen) within a year to aid
cluster bomb victims. In his speech, Nakasone will suggest the need
to envision reconstruction and peace after conflicts even in the
case of weapons for self-defense.
Unexploded cluster bomblets have caused many civilian casualties. In
this regard, Nakasone will emphasize that weapons spreading enmity
should not be used. He will call on the international community for
cooperation in post-conflict reconstruction. In addition, he will
also clarify Japan's readiness to play a proactive role.
5) Government, ruling coalition decide to submit second extra budget
to next Diet session; Aso-Ozawa debate to be held on Nov. 28
NIKKEI (Page 1) (Full)
November 26, 2008
Prime Minister Taro Aso met yesterday with senior ruling Liberal
Democratic Party (LDP) and its coalition partner New Komeito at the
Prime Minister's Official Residence (Kantei). In the meeting, Aso
and senior ruling coalition members decided to forgo submitting a
fiscal 2008 second supplementary budget to the ongoing Diet session.
They have judged that if the government rushes the submission of the
second extra budget, it could have some impact on the compilation of
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a state budget for next fiscal year toward the end of the year. The
government plans to convene the next regular session in early
January and to submit the second extra budget for fiscal 2008 to the
regular session immediately after the session is opened, aiming at
an early enactment of the extra budget.
After the meeting, Aso told reporters:
"I want to submit a second additional budget early next year. I
intend to have the ordinary session convened in early January so
that deliberations on the second extra budget will be started
quickly."
Aso explained the reporters that his government would come up with a
fiscal 2008 second supplementary budget around Dec. 20, when a
downward revision for this fiscal year is carried out due to a drop
in tax revenues. The notion being floated in the government and
ruling parties is extending the current session until around Jan. 5
and opening the next regular session as early as Jan. 7.
The Aso administration has decided to put off submitting a second
extra budget because it predicted that even if the budget cleared
the Diet, the budget-related bills would likely be killed due to
unfinished deliberations. Since the Diet Law specifies that an
ordinary session should be convened in January, there is a limit to
an extension of the current session.
LDP Secretary General Hiroyuki Hosoda met yesterday with his
Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) counterpart Yukio Hatoyama in the
Diet building and conveyed the decision to submit a second extra
budget to the next regular session to Hatoyama. Hatoyama strongly
rebutted, noting: "We cannot agree to it."
Meanwhile, DPJ Diet Affairs Committee Chairman Kenji Yamaoka and his
LDP counterpart Tadamori Oshima yesterday reached a general
agreement on a plan to hold on Nov. 28 a first debate in the Diet
between Prime Minister Aso and DPJ President Ichiro Ozawa.
6) Opposition parties against Diet extension
MAINICHI (Page 5) (Full)
November 26, 2008
The Diet affairs committee chiefs of four opposition parties -- the
Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), Japanese Communist Party (JCP),
Social Democratic Party (SDP) and People's New Party (PNP) -- held a
meeting yesterday in the Diet building and they agreed to oppose an
extension of the ongoing Diet session. The agreement is based on
their judgment that an extension of the current session is
unnecessary because Prime Minister Taro Aso decided yesterday to
forgo submitting a second supplementary budget for fiscal 2008 to
the next ordinary session, which will be convened in January. They
also confirmed that the opposition parties would make a decision on
whether to take a vote on a bill amending the new Antiterrorism
Special Measures Law, as well as on a bill revising the Financial
Functions Strengthening Law -- both bills now in the House of
Councillors for deliberations -- at the end of this month, when the
government decides on the length of an extension.
7) Prime minister's decision reflects alarm at DPJ offensive, but
even ruling party members are criticizing him
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YOMIURI (Page 2) (Excerpts)
November 26, 2008
Prime Minister announced yesterday that the government would not
submit a supplementary budget bill for fiscal 2008 to the current
Diet session. In addition to the official explanation that a bill
could not be compiled on short notice, the decision largely reflects
a judgment that if the government submits a bill, Diet deliberations
could come to a standstill due to attacks from the Democratic Party
of Japan (DPJ). But the decision has evoked criticism even from
among ruling party members, with one lawmaker assailing: "It is hard
to understand that the (prime minister) decided to delay the
submission, even though he has been saying he would give priority to
buoying up the economy." In the face of such criticism, the prime
minister might further lose political ground.
A reported asked Aso yesterday, "Isn't the decision contradictory to
your stance of prioritizing economic stimulus measures?" Aso
replied: "There is no contradiction at all. The first supplementary
budget will finance emergency economic measures. The end of the
fiscal year will be a crucial moment, different from the end of the
year."
The second extra budget would finance an additional economic
stimulus package unveiled on Oct. 30. A Liberal Democratic Party
source said: "The prime minister had initially suggested a plan to
submit some measures in the package to the current Diet session. But
he faced opposition from his aides and changed his mind."
Asked whey he made the decision, Aso said that it would take time to
work out the details of the measures needed to help the people's
livelihoods and to estimate to what extent tax revenues would
decrease due to the current economic downturn. But the prime
minister apparently harbors concern that if the government submits
an extra budget bill, despite uncertainly about the fate of the
bill, and if Diet deliberations come to a standstill, his
administration might stall.
8) Delay in submission of second supplementary bill to Diet: Alarm
now about delay in passage of related bills, fear they might even be
killed if DPJ carries them over to next session
NIKKEI (Page 2) (Full)
November 26, 2008
The government and the ruling parties have decided to put off the
submission of the second supplementary budget to the current Diet
session because of their deep-seated distrust in the Democratic
Party of Japan's (DPJ) Diet strategy in the divided Diet.
If the opposition camp adopts a strategy of delaying a vote on that
bill in the Upper House, where they hold the majority, the budget
bill will automatically be enacted 30 days after it clears the Lower
House. However, it is impossible to handle in time related bills
designed to secure funding resources. Should that occur, the passage
of the fiscal 2009 budget within the current fiscal year could be
seriously affected.
If the second extra budget is to be deliberated during the current
Diet session, the prime minister and related cabinet ministers would
be tied to Budget Committee meetings in both Houses, giving rise to
a possibility of the compilation of the fiscal 2009 budget bill
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being carried over into the new year. There is also the need to
compile a third supplementary budget to make a downward revision to
the estimate for tax revenues for this fiscal year. Many ruling
party members had been prudent about the idea of deliberating the
second supplementary budget bill during the current session with one
noting, "Budgetary compilation would become even more complicated"
and another saying, "Doing so could give the opposition camp an
opportunity to attack the government."
Chances are that if the DPJ in the Upper House decides to carry over
bills related to the second supplementary budget bill to the next
session, the bills would be voted down in the next Diet session and
scrapped. The government and the ruling parties appeared to have
feared the worst situation in which it would become impossible to
re-submit those related bills to the regular Diet session because of
the principle of not deliberating on the same measure during the
same Diet session.
9) DPJ's economic stimulus package based on four pillars; Related
bills outlined
MAINICHI (Page 2) (Full)
November 26, 2008
Following Prime Minister Taro Aso's announcement on Nov. 25 of the
postponement of the submission of the fiscal 2008 second
supplementary budget to the current Diet session, the Democratic
Party of Japan (DPJ) has outlined bills related to a package of
economic and financial measures to be submitted to the current
session. The package features the following four pillars: (1)
abolish the provisional gas tax; (2) assistance for child-rearing;
(3) financial measures for small- and medium-size businesses; and
(4) employment measures, including improving the treatment of
non-regular employees. The package thus incorporates measures for
small- and medium-size businesses, which would likely become
cash-strapped toward the end of the year, and key policies included
in the party's manifesto for the next Lower House election. Their
aim is to highlight differences from the government and the ruling
parties, which have failed to take any economic stimulus measures
due to the delay in the submission of the second supplementary
budget to the current session, as one senior member of the DPJ
Policy Research Council put it. The DPJ intends to submit those
related bills to the Upper House as a showcase in the extended Diet
session.
DPJ President Ichiro Ozawa on the 23rd revealed that his party was
considering submitting bills related to the economic and financial
measures to the current Diet session. DPJ Policy Research Council
Chairman Masayuki Naoshima at an executive meeting on the 25th said
that the party will start adjusting the bills at a meeting of the
Next Cabinet" to be held on the 26th.
Regarding the abolition of the provisional tax rate among measures
incorporated in the related bills, the public's financial burden
worth 2.6 trillion yen would be reduced by abolishing the
road-related provisional tax rate. For assistance for child-raising,
a child allowance for 26,000 yen per child will be established. The
DPJ is also considering making some expressways toll-free ahead of
the timetable.
The measures for small- and medium-size businesses consist of two
bills -- a bill designed to smoothen local financing, which will
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mandates financial institutions to disclose loan terms, and a bill
to prevent major companies from bullying small- and medium-size
businesses in order to constrain their unilateral cost-cutting
demand to subcontractors.
10) Views of junior, mid-level LDP lawmakers split over submitting
second supplementary budget to current Diet session
MAINICHI (Page 5) (Full)
November 26, 2008
The views of junior and mid-level lawmakers of the ruling Liberal
Democratic Party are split over whether to call on the government to
submit a fiscal 2008 second supplementary budget to the current Diet
session. Although former Administrative Reform Minister Yoshimi
Watanabe, an active leader of the group, has taken a stance of not
hesitating to topple the cabinet of Prime Minister Taro Aso if
necessary, some other group members have a more realistic view that
it is impossible to replace the prime minister at this point. Taking
advantage of discord in the group, the LDP leadership and faction
chiefs have launched an effort to calm down the lawmakers.
The group of 24 LDP lawmakers from both chambers of the Diet,
including former Chief Cabinet Secretary Yasuhisa Shiozaki and
Watanabe, has called for submitting the second extra budget to the
ongoing session. Watanabe has stepped up criticism of Aso, arguing:
"Since the prime minister has said that he places priority on policy
over politics, we must do something." House of Councillors member
Taichi Yamamoto is advocating an early dissolution of the House of
Representatives.
The group, however, yesterday refrained from criticizing the Aso
administration's decision to push back the submission of the second
extra budget to the next session. A group member, who served as
parliamentary secretary, said: "We cannot support the government
decision, but if we criticize it now, we would create a trend toward
(toppling the cabinet). It is a vexing situation."
Meanwhile, in a General Council meeting yesterday, Yuji Tsushima,
who heads a faction in the LDP, asked senior party members to tell
group members "not to show mercy to the enemy" (Democratic Party of
Japan). Senior members of the Machimura faction confirmed yesterday
that they would closely watch moves of the group so that it would
not become overly excited.
A veteran lawmaker took an icy view toward the group, saying: "It's
a publicity stunt by lawmakers who will likely be defeated in the
next election."
11) Confrontation and distrust between Aso and Ozawa drags on as
likelihood grows that Lower House will not be dissolved until after
the spring
NIKKEI (Page 2) (Abridged slightly)
November 26, 2008
Confrontation between Prime Minister Taro Aso and Democratic Party
of Japan (DPJ) President Ichiro Ozawa is expected to escalate with
the planned extension of the current Diet session. Mutual distrust
between the two, which has turned into a name-calling game, has
grown to new heights, making it more difficult to settle complex
issues brought on by the divided Diet. Amid the prospect that the
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next Lower House election will not be held before next spring
gaining ground, due to the delay in the submission of the fiscal
2008 second supplementary budget bill, both parties will face off in
the extended Diet session, saddled with contradictory arguments.
Prime minister on the defense
When he announced his decision to put off the submission of the
extra budget to the current Diet session, the prime minister
stammered for a moment, "Basically, the situation is not yet
conductive to allow the submission of the bill right away ..."
Prime Minister Aso in late October announced his plan to compile a
second extra budget, which would finance a package of additional
economic stimulus measures. To do this, he would have to delay Lower
House dissolution. Until recently, Aso has been searching for the
right timing for submitting the bill in the belief that people's
attitudes play a major role in the state of the economy.
His explanation was awkward. Concerning the expansion of credit
guarantee for small- and medium-size businesses, the showcase of the
additional package, Aso said, "Borrowers' cash management will not
become difficult in December or January next year. The problem is
the end of the year." However, the prime minister had originally
stressed, "Cash management by small and medium-sized businesses
would become difficult toward the end of the year."
The second extra budget will include the issuance of
deficit-covering government bonds to make up for a drop in tax
revenues. One reason for the delay in the submission of the second
extra budget is because the amount of the issuance of such bonds has
yet to be fixed. However, the prime minister, when he released the
additional package, had categorically said, "I will not issue
deficit-covering government bonds." During Diet deliberations, he
will have to give an awkward explanation about this discrepancy.
The prime minister has no other choice even at the cost of coming
under fire as his words and actions being contradictor. The
submission of the second supplementary budget bill to the current
Diet session was an aggressive tactic with an eye on a Lower House
dissolution for a snap election at the end of the year. Now he has
no choice but to stay of the defensive, because the economy is
slowing and his administration is starting to unravel due to his own
wavering statements.
The prime minister and Chief Cabinet Secretary Takeo Kawamura on the
25th vowed to do their utmost with a determination to make a fresh
start.
12) Progress on abduction issue uncertain in next round of six-party
talks; Government wary of possible U.S. concession
TOKYO SHIMBUN (Page 2) (Full)
November 26, 2008
The government has welcomed plans to resume the six-party talks on
the North Korean nuclear issue on Dec. 8. But there are signs of the
U.S. making concessions to North Korea, given that country's adamant
stance on the nuclear issue. Relations between the U.S. and North
Korea might move closer than before. The government is wary about
the possibility this would inevitably affect the resolution of the
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issue of Japanese nationals abducted by North Korean agents.
Foreign Minister Hirofumi Nakasone told reporters yesterday: "Japan
has no objection to that (schedule); we think it is fine." The
government hopes to move negotiations on the stalled abduction issue
forward by taking advantage of the resumption of the six-party
talks. It has thus welcomed the planned resumption of the talks.
North Korea, however, has come up with a set of new demands on
nuclear verification methods, a hot issue in the next round of the
talks. Tokyo hopes to put a verification regime into writing, but
Pyongyang has refused codifying the proposed collection of samples,
which is indispensable for examining the output of plutonium.
The agreement reached in October between the U.S. and North Korea
makes no reference to sampling, just noting "scientific protocol."
The government is worried that the Bush administration, impatient to
produce diplomatic accomplishments in its final days, might try to
make concessions to North Korea.
If that becomes the case, Japan will lose its leverage - namely,
pressure by the U.S. on the North -- in negotiating the abduction
issue. If North Korea takes advantage of Japan's weak situation and
resorts to strong-arm tactics, the future of Japan-North Korea
negotiations on the abduction issue will become even murkier.
That is why Nakasone emphasized, "We hope that what have been agreed
on between the U.S. and North Korea will be firmly put in writing."
The U.S. virtually ignored Japan's wishes by delisting North Korea
as a state sponsor of terrorism. The next round of the six-talks
might turn out to even more severe for the Japanese government.
SCHIEFFER