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SUBJECT:  DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 11/17/08 
 
INDEX: 
 
(1) Aso to attend financial summit with strong confidence, with 
positions of Japan, U.S. reversed, compared with seven years ago 
(Sankei) 
 
(2) Three hundred billion yen fund for developing countries: 
Government agree with World Bank on 200 billion yen disbursement 
(Tokyo Shimbun) 
 
(3) Afghan dispatch unconstitutional or constitutional? (Tokyo 
Shimbun) 
 
(4) DPJ demands party head talks: Likely to reject taking vote on 
new Antiterrorism Law to extend MSDF refueling mission, if its 
request rejected (Yomiuri) 
 
(5) Asahi Shimbun reporter shot in Pakistan (Asahi) 
 
(6) Murayama Statement must be reexamined (Sankei) 
 
(7) Gov't poll: 89 PERCENT  choose domestic food; 93 PERCENT 
concerned about future imports (Mainichi) 
 
(8) TOP HEADLINES 
 
(9) EDITORIALS 
 
(10) Prime Minister's schedule, November 13 (Nikkei) 
 
ARTICLES: 
 
(1) Aso to attend financial summit with strong confidence, with 
positions of Japan, U.S. reversed, compared with seven years ago 
 
SANKEI (Page 3) (Full) 
November 15, 2008 
 
(Keiichi Takagi, Washington) 
 
Prime Minister Taro Aso has indicated strong confidence in the role 
to be played by Japan in the emergency financial summit that opens 
Nov. 14. Such confidence reflects that Japan's financial system was 
only slightly affected by the U.S.-triggered global financial 
crisis. Moreover, since Aso believes in Japan's latent power, the 
financial summit sets the stage for Japan to seek "revenge" on the 
U.S. for something that happened eight years ago. 
 
Confidence as economic expert 
 
On the night of Nov. 9, Aso attended an informal meeting with 
college students at a Japanese-style pub in Shibuya Ward. He was 
glib about what was required of a politician: "Those who want to be 
a politician should be good at speaking English, enough to win a 
woman's heart, and possess knowledge about economic and business 
matters. Incumbent politicians have all talked gibberish about 
economics. Mr. Koizumi (former prime minister) also only said that 
the economy was bad or something like that." 
 
Aso, who looks upon himself as expert on foreign and economic 
affairs, has indicated his eagerness to play a leading role in 
stabilizing the international financial system. Japan is the second 
 
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economic power, following the U.S., and also successfully dealt with 
its own financial crisis. Keeping these factors in mind, Aso thinks 
Japan is has more influence than any other Group of 20 economies 
attending the summit in Washington. 
 
Meanwhile, a source connected to Japan-U.S. relations said: "The 
prime minister has suffered trauma from his experience of having 
been pressured by the U.S. to take effective measures to stabilize 
the nation's financial system seven years ago." The occasion was 
when Aso accompanied then Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori as state 
minister in charge of economic and fiscal policy on his visit to the 
U.S. in the last days of the Mori administration in March, 2001. 
According to the source, Aso was excessively pressured by officials 
in the Bush administration to inject public funds and accelerate the 
disposal of nonperforming bank loans as measures to avoid major 
Japanese financial institutions from going under. 
 
Harsh baptism 
 
Focusing on Aso's advantages of being good at speaking English and 
being an expert on economic matters, a senior Liberal Democratic 
Party member recommended that he accompany Mori on his visit to the 
U.S. The trip turned out to be baptism by fire for Aso. After 
returning home, however, Aso said: "If the people think the Japanese 
economy is in a critical state, I will then turn around the 
situation without fail." This remark was also intended to launch a 
counterattack against U.S. pressure. 
 
Afterward, Aso pushed ahead with structural reform as LDP Policy 
Research Council chairman under the Koizumi administration, the 
successor to the Mori cabinet. Japan met one request after another 
thrust from the U.S. 
 
This time, the financial crisis has been triggered by the U.S. Aso 
reportedly told his aides recently: "The U.S. has not aimed any 
complaints against Japan on the economic front over the past several 
years." Such a remark might reflect his self-confidence due to the 
reversed positions of Japan and U.S. due to the current financial 
turmoil. While stressing the need to maintain a dollar-based 
currency system, Aso intends to press the U.S. as to what it should 
do. 
 
(2) Three hundred billion yen fund for developing countries: 
Government agree with World Bank on 200 billion yen disbursement 
 
TOKYO SHIMBUN (Top Play) 
Evening, November 15, 2008 
 
Prior to the emergency summit meeting (financial summit) Finance 
Minister Shoichi Nakagawa on November 14 met with World Bank 
President Robert Zoellick in Washington. Both agreed that Japan and 
World Bank would jointly invest in a fund to boost the capital of 
developing countries' banks (tentative name) worth 3 billion dollars 
(approximately 300 billion yen), the aim being to stabilize the 
financial systems of such countries. Japan will disburse 2 billion 
dollars through the Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC). 
It will also play a key role in establishing the envisaged fund. The 
International Finance Corporation (IFC) under the umbrella of the 
World Bank will also invest 1 billion dollars. This is the second 
step of Japan-led crisis measures, following additional funding for 
the IMF. Prime Minister Aso will propose the plan at the financial 
summit. 
 
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Financial summit opens 
 
The envisaged fund will inject capital into leading banks in 
developing countries in Asia, Latin America and Africa in order to 
strengthen their management bases. The aim is to stabilize the 
financial systems of capital recipient countries through the 
stabilization of the management of financial institutions in those 
countries. Regarding this measure, the World Bank noted that a 
ripple effect worth 75 billion dollars can be expected. 
 
Nakagawa also met with IMF Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn. 
During the meeting, he explained Japan's stance, saying, "It is 
important to use the IMF to a maximum extent as a measure to deal 
with the financial crisis." He also revealed Japan's plan to provide 
financial cooperation up to 100 billion dollars. He proposed 
doubling the IMF's capital base over the mid- to long term. 
 
(3) Afghan dispatch unconstitutional or constitutional? 
 
TOKYO SHIMBUN (Page 2) (Full) 
November 16, 2008 
 
The Diet has been deliberating on a government-introduced bill 
amending the new Antiterrorism Special Measures Law to continue the 
Maritime Self-Defense Force's refueling activities in the Indian 
Ocean. The legislation is expected to pass the Diet on Nov. 20. The 
Diet debate, however, is now being focused primarily on the issue of 
former Air Self-Defense Force Chief of Staff Toshio Tamogami's 
publication of his controversial essay that conflicted with the 
government's view. The Diet should discuss what to do about Japan's 
assistance to Afghanistan. How far is Japan constitutionally allowed 
to assist Afghanistan by sending the Self-Defense Forces? 
 
Q: Democratic Party of Japan (Minshuto) President Ichiro Ozawa 
criticized the MSDF's refueling activities as "unconstitutional" in 
his essay released in October last year, didn't he? 
 
A: In a Diet deliberation, Keiichiro Asao, who is defense minister 
in the DPJ's shadow cabinet, noted that there is a question about 
the constitutionality of the MSDF's refueling activities if the 
MSDF's fuel was used for ships backing up military operations in 
Iraq. In this way, Asao raised a question about the MSDF's ongoing 
activities-not about the law itself-since the MSDF's fuel is 
suspected of having been used for the military operations in Iraq. 
 
Q: What about the government? 
 
A: Prime Minister Taro Aso rebutted in this way: "The MSDF's 
refueling activities obviously do not fall under the use of armed 
force. They are working in a noncombat area, and their activities 
there do not violate Article 9 of the Constitution. In order to wipe 
out the suspicion, however, the government will have to clarify what 
kinds of operations were carried out with the participation of 
foreign vessels that were refueled by the MSDF. Chief Cabinet 
Secretary Takeo Kawamura stated, "In principle, their governments 
will not make public details about their military operations." So 
the suspicion still remains. 
 
Q: Meanwhile, the government is cautious about sending the Ground 
Self-Defense Force to Afghanistan. 
 
 
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A: Prime Minister Aso replied: "We cannot rule out the possibility 
of being involved in combat operations. There is a split of opinion 
about whether Japan is constitutionally allowed to fight back using 
weapons." In this way, the prime minister is negative about the idea 
of sending GSDF troops to Afghanistan while maintaining that it 
could conflict with the Constitution that prohibits Japan from using 
armed force overseas. According to the government's interpretation, 
one of the prerequisites for Japan's overseas use of armed force is 
the case where the other party is a state or a state-like entity. 
The prime minister has said, "It is fairly likely that there are 
state-like entities in the southern and eastern parts of 
Afghanistan. 
 
Q: The DPJ is positive about sending GSDF troops to Afghanistan. 
 
A: The DPJ presented a counterproposal allowing the government to 
send the Self-Defense Forces to Afghanistan if and when the Afghan 
government and armed groups agree to stop their conflict. (The DPJ 
proposal was voted down in the House of Representatives.) However, 
Asao stated, "We have to say the conflict has yet to stop anywhere 
in that country." So saying, he also indicated that it would be 
difficult to send the GSDF for now. 
 
Q: In the end, there are problems about the MSDF's refueling mission 
in the Indian Ocean and the GSDF's dispatch to Afghanistan from the 
perspective of constitutionality. 
 
A: That's because the government has sent the SDF overseas without 
debate. In April this year, the Nagoya High Court ruled the Air 
Self-Defense Force's activities in Iraq to be unconstitutional. The 
government should make clear guidelines to limit the SDF's overseas 
dispatches. 
 
(4) DPJ demands party head talks: Likely to reject taking vote on 
new Antiterrorism Law to extend MSDF refueling mission, if its 
request rejected 
 
YOMIURI ONLINE (Full) 
13:18, November 17, 2008 
 
Senior DPJ officials, including President Ozawa and Secretary 
General Hatoyama, met at the party headquarters on the morning of 
November 17. They decided to call on the ruling parties to hold 
party head talks between Prime Minister Aso and Ozawa the same day. 
 
The party will seek the submission of the fiscal 2008 second 
supplementary budget to the current Diet session at the talks, if 
they are held. If the ruling camp turns down its request, the DPJ 
intends to delay a vote-taking on the bill amending the new 
Antiterrorism Law to extend the Maritime Self-Defense Force's (MSDF) 
refueling mission expected to take place at the Upper House Foreign 
Affairs and Defense Committee on the 18th. 
 
Many close to the prime minister take a pessimistic view of the 
holding of party head talks the same day. 
 
DPJ Diet Affairs Committee Chairman Kenji Yamaoka on the 17th asked 
his LDP counterpart Tadamori Omori to hold a meeting of secretaries 
general and Diet Affairs Committee chairmen. 
 
A growing stance in the ruling parties is to submit the 
supplementary budget bill to the regular Diet session in January 
 
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next year and put off Lower House dissolution. The prime minister 
also indicated to accompanying reporters in Washington, which he 
visited to take part in the financial summit, the possibility of 
dissolving the Lower House next spring or later. Objecting the prime 
minister's intention, as it is seeking an early dissolution of the 
Lower House, the DPJ has come up with such a hard-line stance, 
shifting from the previous stance of taking a vote on the bill 
amending the new antiterror bill on the 18th. 
 
Hatoyama at the party headquarters told reporters: "The ruling camp 
is stressing the need for economic measures, and yet why doesn't it 
submit the second supplementary budget bill, the main pillar for the 
package of economic stimulus measures, to the Diet? If they don't, 
we will confront them with serious intent." He also noted, "We want 
to realize party head talks by all means before a vote-taking on the 
bill amending the new antiterror bill. Otherwise, Diet deliberations 
will suffer a major impact." 
 
However, some aides to the prime minister noted that they had no 
intention whatsoever of accepting the proposed talks, saying why it 
is necessary to hold party head talks when no party head debate took 
place. They also raised doubts about the DPJ linking the new 
antiterror bill with the second supplementary budget bill. For this 
reason, a view has emerged that a timetable for a vote-taking on the 
bill amending the new antiterror law will be affected. 
 
(5) Asahi Shimbun reporter shot in Pakistan 
 
ASAHI (Page 39) (Excerpts) 
November 15, 2008 
 
A gunman opened fire at a Japanese reporter and an Afghan colleague 
in a car around 13:10 on Nov. 14 in Peshawar, the northwestern part 
of Pakistan. Motoki Yotsukura, Asahi Shimbun's bureau chief, was 
wounded in the leg, Sami Yousufzai, an Afghan journalist who has 
worked for the Asahi Shimbun, was shot in the left shoulder. The two 
men received treatment at hospital. There reportedly is no danger to 
their lives. 
 
According to explanations by Yotsukura, he left Islamabad by car and 
arrived at Peshawar on the 14th to interview people close to the 
Taliban. While they were waiting for the interviewees on the street 
in the city in the car, a man came closer to them and suddenly 
opened fire at them from outside the car. 
 
The two left the accident site by their car and received treatment 
at hospital in Peshawar. 
 
Since some witnesses said that the gunman had tried to open the 
car's door before shooting them, there is the possibility that the 
attack was intended to kidnap them. 
 
Foreign correspondents have been engaged in news-collection 
activities in Peshawar, but security is crumbling in some areas. An 
Iranian diplomat was abducted on the 13th. 
 
(6) Murayama Statement must be reexamined 
 
SANKEI (Page 13) (Full) 
November 15, 2008 
 
By Mizuho Ishikawa, editorial writer 
 
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Question is not what is in the essay 
 
The government has dismissed Toshio Tamogami from the post of Air 
Self-Defense Force chief of staff over an essay he wrote that 
stated, "It is a false accusation to say that our country was an 
aggressor." He was removed on the grounds that his essay conflicted 
with former Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama's statement that 
declared the past war was "aggression." 
 
Tamogami's essay seemed to have been influenced to some extent by 
such unconfirmed theories as the bombing of Zhang Zuolin's train in 
1928 being the work of the Comintern, contrary to the long-held 
theory that it was the work of the Kwantung Army. He also stated 
that Liu Shaoqi held a press conference with Western reporters 
regarding the Marco Polo Bridge Incident. Despite such aspects, his 
argument is coherent. 
 
The assessment of data on such events is not that important. What 
really matters here is the appropriateness of the Murayama Statement 
that was used as the basis for discharging Tamogami. 
 
The Murayama Statement was released in 1995, the 50th anniversary of 
the end of the war. At the time, the country had a coalition 
government consisting of the Liberal Democratic Party, Japan 
Socialist Party, and Sakigake (Harbinger Party), and the Shinshinto 
(New Frontier Party) was the largest opposition party. 
 
In the statement, Prime Minister Murayama of the Japan Socialist 
Party repeatedly expressed his "apology" and "remorse" for the past 
war. A variety of historical views held by other cabinet ministers 
and former cabinet ministers that did not line up with Prime 
Minister Murayama's view were criticized by neighboring countries. 
 
In June of that year, then Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign 
Minister Michio Watanabe said that the Japan-South Korea annexation 
treaty had been concluded amicably. The statement drew an outcry 
from South Korea, and Watanabe later offered an apology. 
 
In August, then Education Minister Yoshinobu Shimamura stated that 
it was a matter of interpretation whether the Pacific War was a war 
of aggression. Shimamura eventually received a stern warning. 
 
In the Diet, a draft resolution commemorating the 50th anniversary 
of the end of the war that expressed deep remorse for Japan's acts 
of aggression and its colonial rule was adopted by the Lower House 
by a majority of votes by the ruling parties in the absence of the 
Shinshinto. The Upper House rejected it, however. 
 
Murayama Statement abruptly presented to cabinet meeting 
 
The Murayama Statement expressing the prime minister's "feelings of 
deep remorse" and stating his "heartfelt apology" for "Japan's 
colonial rule and aggression" due to a "mistaken national policy 
during a certain period in the not too distant past" was abruptly 
presented to a cabinet meeting under such odd circumstances. 
 
Reportedly, then Chief Cabinet Secretary Koken Nosaka begged major 
cabinet ministers and ruling party executives to support the 
Murayama Statement without briefing them on the statement ahead of 
the Aug. 15 cabinet meeting. 
 
 
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In the cabinet meeting, when Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary Teijiro 
Furukawa read the Murayama Statement, it was met with deafening 
silence, according to a person who was there. 
 
Asked at the press conference after the cabinet meeting about the 
timeframe during which Japan had followed a mistaken policy, Prime 
Minister Murayama declined to say when, noting, "It is not 
appropriate to specify the timeframe." How far Japan should go back 
in time with its apology is still unclear. 
 
In an interview to the Sankei Shimbun, then Transport Minister Takeo 
Hiranuma said: "(The statement) was presented abruptly without any 
prior consultation. I wondered why the prime minister from the Japan 
Socialist Party had to issue such a statement. I felt the statement 
contained some problems, but I did not bother to raise any 
questions. Looking back, I should have expressed my views frankly." 
 
After the release of the Murayama Statement, some cabinet ministers 
continued to make statements that year that drew fire from China and 
South Korea. 
 
In October, Prime Minister Murayama told the Upper House: "The 
Japan-South Korea annexation treaty was concluded legally." This 
also drew fire from South Korea, and Murayama later explained that 
the two countries had not stood on equal footing and that his 
explanation had been insufficient. 
 
In November, Management and Coordination Agency Director-General 
Takami Eto in an off-the-record roundtable with reporters said: 
"Japan did some good things during its colonial rule." This found 
its way into a monthly magazine. Prime Minister Murayama severely 
scolded Eto, but that did not help quell South Korea's anger. Eto 
eventually resigned from the post. 
 
Up to his death, Eto used to say: "The Murayama Statement was 
presented suddenly at a cabinet meeting. I did not say anything 
because I thought expressing (opposition) would not change 
anything." 
 
How Murayama Statement was produced must be clarified 
 
Effectively placed under China's and South Korea's censorship, the 
Murayama Statement was produced as a diplomatic document to convince 
the two countries, so to speak. 
 
On November 11, Tamogami said before the Upper House Foreign Affairs 
and Defense Committee: "I have not openly criticized the Murayama 
Statement. I believe SDF personnel naturally have a right to freedom 
of speech. I have never thought that it would be constrained by the 
Murayama Statement. (Proceedings to reprimand me) would help clarify 
where the problems are in my essay." 
 
The Murayama Statement was reportedly drafted by then Cabinet 
Secretariat Deputy Counsellor Koji Matsui, who is now a Democratic 
Party of Japan lawmaker. It was completed by Cabinet External Policy 
Office chief and former ambassador to China Sakutaro Tanino, after 
consulting with a scholar who was a close acquaintance. 
 
The Diet should now examine thoroughly the process from the drafting 
of the Murayama Statement through its adoption by the cabinet. 
 
(7) Gov't poll: 89 PERCENT  choose domestic food; 93 PERCENT 
 
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concerned about future imports 
 
MAINICHI (Page 1) (Full) 
November 16, 2008 
 
The Cabinet Office yesterday released the results of its poll on 
food, agriculture, and the role of farm villages. In the survey, 
respondents were asked which they would choose between domestic 
products and foreign products when buying food. To this question, 
89.0 PERCENT  answered that they would choose domestic products, up 
7.1 percentage points from a 2000 survey that asked a similar 
question. 
 
In the breakdown of reasons (multiple-choice answer) for choosing 
domestic products, "safety" accounted for nearly 90 PERCENT , 
topping all other answers. The figure shows the public's growing 
concern about imported food products in response to food poisoning 
from China-made 'gyoza' dumplings. 
 
Those "not particular" about domestic or foreign food products 
accounted for 10.1 PERCENT , down 6.4 points from the 2000 survey. 
The proportion of those preferring imported products was 0.5 PERCENT 
, up 0.1 points. 
 
The survey was conducted across the nation on a face-to-face basis 
with a total of 5,000 persons chosen from among men and women aged 
20 and over. Answers were obtained from 3,144 persons (62.9 PERCENT 
). A similar survey started in 1987, and the survey this time is the 
seventh one. 
 
Meanwhile, when asked about future food imports, 93.4 PERCENT 
answered that they were concerned. 
 
The most common reason given to their concern about future food 
imports was that imports could decrease or stop due to changes in 
the international situation, totaling 55.8 PERCENT . The figure 
reflects the recent situation in which global rises in the prices of 
grains and crude oil have brought about raises in the prices of food 
products at home. 
 
(8) TOP HEADLINES 
 
Asahi, Mainichi, Sankei & Tokyo Shimbun: 
G-20 leaders agree to ensure all financial institutions are 
appropriately regulated 
 
Yomiuri & Akahata: 
Industrialized, emerging countries to cooperate in stabilizing 
financial system, tighten market regulations 
 
 
Nikkei: 
G-20 leaders agree to take every possible measure for financial 
stability 
 
(9) EDITORIALS 
 
Asahi: 
(1) Don't undo this solidarity at G-20 summit 
 
Mainichi: 
(1) Financial summit: Give shape to historic coordination 
 
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Yomiuri: 
(1) Resolve to overcome financial crisis dispatched from financial 
summit 
 
Nikkei: 
(1) Capabilities to implement measures sought, following model 
replies in financial summit 
 
Sankei: 
(1) Efforts now needed to implement measures and reform 
(2) Establish transparent rules on management of official documents 
 
Tokyo Shimbun: 
(1) G-20 nations urged to translate measures into action 
(2) Abolishment of regular services of buses: Measures needed to 
protect local transport services 
 
Akahata: 
(1) G-20 summit: Strengthened regulations, reform absolutely 
necessary 
 
(10) Prime Minister's schedule, November 13 (Local time) 
 
NIKKEI (Page 2) (Full) 
November 15, 2008 
 
Night 
 
Arrived at Andrews Air Force Base. Stayed overnight at the Willard 
Intercontinental Hotel in Washington. 
 
Prime Minister's schedule, November 14 (Local time) 
 
NIKKEI (Page 2) (Full) 
November 15, 2008 
 
Morning 
 
Held talks with Brazilian President Lula at the Fours Seasons 
Hotel. 
 
Prime Minister's schedule, November 14 (Local time) 
 
NIKKEI (Page 2) (Full) 
November 16, 2008 
 
Noon 
Spoke to journalists traveling with at the Willard Intercontinental 
Hotel. 
 
Afternoon 
Held talks with British Prime Minister Brown at the British 
minister's official residence. 
 
Evening 
Held talks with Indonesian President Yudhoyono at the Ritz Carton. 
The Willard Intercontinental Hotel. 
 
Night 
Attended the financial summit reception at the White House hosted by 
President Bush, followed by a working dinner. Stayed overnight at 
 
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the Willard Intercontinental Hotel. 
 
Prime Minister's schedule, November 15 (Local time) 
 
NIKKEI (Page 2) (Full) 
November 16, 2008 
 
Morning 
Attended a photo session with other summit leaders at the National 
Building Museum, followed by the first part of the financial summit 
plenary session. 
 
Prime Minister's schedule, November 15 (Local time) 
 
NIKKEI (Page 2) (Full) 
November 17, 2008 
 
Noon 
Attended the second part of the financial summit plenary session at 
the National Building Museum, followed by a working lunch. 
Afternoon Held a press conference at the National Press Bldg. 
 
Night 
Departed from Andres Air Force Base on government plane. 
 
Prime Minister's schedule, November 16 (Japan time) 
 
NIKKEI (Page 2) (Full) 
November 17, 2008 
 
23:41 
Arrived at Haneda Airport. 
 
Prime Minister's schedule, November 17 (Japan time) 
 
NIKKEI (Page 2) (Full) 
November 17, 2008 
 
0:23 
Arrived at his private residence in Kamiyamacho. 
 
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