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SUBJECT:  DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 04/28/09 
 
INDEX: 
(1) Nakasone strongly criticizes China for possessing nuclear 
weapons, urges it to fall in step with disarmament move by U.S. and 
Russia (Asahi) 
 
(2) Japan to cooperate with China's efforts to reduce effect of 
loess, cut CO2 emissions (Asahi) 
 
(3) Editorial: Discuss measures to reconstruct failed nation of 
Somalia (Asahi) 
 
(4) Think of statesmen making laws: Gen Nakatani and antipiracy 
legislation (Nikkei) 
 
(5) TOP HEADLINES 
 
(6) EDITORIALS 
 
(7) Prime Minister's schedule, April 27 (Nikkei) 
 
(8) Political Cartoons (Sankei, Tokyo Shimbun) 
 
ARTICLES: 
 
(1) Nakasone strongly criticizes China for possessing nuclear 
weapons, urges it to fall in step with disarmament move by U.S. and 
Russia 
 
ASAHI (Page 3) (Abridged slightly) 
April 28, 2009 
 
Atsuko Tannai 
 
Foreign Minister Hirofumi Nakasone yesterday delivered a speech 
promoting nuclear disarmament. The foreign minister used unusually 
strong language to criticize China for modernizing its nuclear 
arsenal. Looming in the background is strong concern in Tokyo over 
the relative increase in the China nuclear threat at a time when 
momentum is building in the United States and Russia toward reducing 
inventories of nuclear warheads. 
 
In the speech, Nakasone presented Japan's strong resolve to "play 
the leading role in promoting global nuclear disarmament." He 
continued, "It goes without saying that the extended deterrence 
including nuclear deterrence under the Japan-U.S. security 
arrangements is of critical importance for Japan." Japan intends to 
seek a path toward nuclear disarmament based on its security 
environment. 
 
According to a ministry source, Nakasone began making preparations 
for the speech in late February or early March before President 
Barack Obama delivered his speech in Prague (on April 5) on moving 
toward a nuclear-free world. As a presidential candidate, Obama 
promised to aim toward the goal of a world without nuclear weapons. 
Since then, Nakasone anticipated that an opportunity would come for 
cooperation between Japan and the United States on nuclear 
disarmament. 
 
The foreign minister was critical of China a lack of information 
disclosure, noting, "China has yet to undertake any nuclear arms 
reduction. Nor has it disclosed any information about its nuclear 
arsenal." Nakasone continued: "It is necessary for China and other 
 
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nuclear weapons-possessing states to freeze the development of 
nuclear weapons and missiles and other delivery vehicles that would 
slow momentum toward nuclear disarmament." 
 
There was concern in the government about a possible harmful effect 
on the Japan-China summit scheduled to take place on April 29. But a 
Foreign Ministry official responsible for security affairs 
explained: "The United States and Russia could go ahead and reduce 
their nuclear arsenals, but it would be pointless if China were to 
increase its nuclear weapons. A cap must be put on China's nuclear 
military expansion." An official responsible for disarmament also 
commented: "The call on China, in addition to the United States and 
Russia, to reduce its nuclear arsenal has made the speech 
convincing." 
 
The United States and Russia possess 10,000 nuclear warheads in all. 
China is estimated to have nearly 200. Japan's foreign and defense 
experts have grave concerns over China's modernization of nuclear 
weapons, rapid development of rocket technology, and unclear 
strategic objectives. 
 
The speech underlined Japan's stance to enhance its past efforts as 
the sole victim of nuclear bombing. 
 
In support of measures taken by the International Commission on 
Nuclear Nonproliferation and Disarmament, co-chaired by former 
Japanese Foreign Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi and former Australian 
Foreign Minister Gareth Evans, Nakasone also announced Japan's plan 
to host early next year an international conference on nuclear 
disarmament. Japan intends to demonstrate its presence in the 
international community as a promoter of nuclear disarmament. 
 
It is a fact, though, that Japan relies on America's nuclear 
umbrella. Nakasone presented Japan's pragmatic goal of improving its 
security environment by giving a boost to the current momentum 
toward nuclear disarmament. 
 
Proposals by Foreign Minister Nakasone 
 
Q Nuclear disarmament by all nuclear weapons-holding states 
 
¶1. Leadership of and cooperation between the United States and 
Russia 
¶2. Nuclear disarmament by China and other nuclear weapons-holding 
states 
¶3. Transparency over nuclear arsenals and information disclosure 
¶4. Irreversible nuclear disarmament 
¶5. Study on future verification 
 
Q Measures to be taken by the entire international community 
 
¶6. Bringing the CTBT into effect 
¶7. Ban on production of fissile material for nuclear weapons 
purposes 
¶8. Restrictions on ballistic missiles 
 
Q Measures to be taken for peaceful use of nuclear energy 
 
¶9. International cooperation for civil nuclear energy 
¶10. Enhancing IAEA safeguards -- Comprehensive Safeguards Agreements 
and the Model Additional Protocol 
¶11. Prevention of nuclear terrorism 
 
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(2) Japan to cooperate with China's efforts to reduce effect of 
loess, cut CO2 emissions 
 
ASAHI (Page 7) (Full) 
April 28, 2009 
 
Toru Higashioka 
 
Prime Minister Taro Aso and Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao will agree on 
a comprehensive cooperation plan on environmental protection and 
energy conservation when they meet in Beijing on April 29, according 
to informed sources. Under the plan, Japan will assist China's 
antipollution and waste-disposal efforts. The plan lists 15 problems 
in four areas to be tackled by the two countries on a priority 
basis, including loess and acid rain, which have also affected Japan 
seriously, and superannuated equipment at coal thermal power 
plants. 
 
According to a Japanese government source, Japan aims at advancing 
its cooperation to China, which is now saddled with serious 
environmental problems, in the environment and energy-saving areas, 
Japan's strong points, as a symbol of their strategic 
mutually-beneficial relationship. Japan also expects such 
cooperation will work to prompt China to participate in a new 
international framework following the 2012 expiration of the Kyoto 
Protocol by boosting Chinese people's awareness of the need to 
contain global warming. 
 
Japan intends to cooperate in renovating equipment at coal thermal 
power plants and developing human resources, as measures to contain 
global warming and enhance the safety of facilities. The government 
has decided to accept about 10,000 Chinese trainees in this fiscal 
year and provide guidance in China. 
 
Japan also will promote cooperation in drainage work in farm 
villages and launch joint projects to purify water, including lake 
water. To reduce nitrogen and phosphorus, which cause water 
contamination, Japan is willing to carry out joint research with 
China. Further, Japan intends to assist China in purifying the 
seriously polluted Bohai Gulf. 
 
To fight air pollution, Japan will assist China's research and 
technical development efforts on photochemical oxidant, loess, and 
acid rain. Japan will also transfer its technologies to reduce, 
recycle, and reuse waste. 
 
As part of efforts to spread antipollution measures across local 
areas, Japan and China have decided to hold the next round of the 
bilateral energy-conservation and environment forum in a rural city 
area in China and distribute a Chinese-version collection of Japan's 
superior energy-saving and other technologies there. 
 
To demonstrate the Japanese government's eagerness to tackle the 
environment issue, Aso is scheduled to visit on the 30th Shougang 
Steel Corp in suburb of Beijing, known as Capital Steel, in which 
Japan gave technical guidance regarding the effective use of heat 
energy and measures to prevent dust dispersion. 
 
(3) Editorial: Discuss measures to reconstruct failed nation of 
Somalia 
 
 
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ASAHI (Page 3) (Full) 
April 28, 2009 
 
Japan and many other countries have dispatched warships to guard 
commercial vessels from possible attacks by pirates in waters off 
Somalia, Africa. Their efforts, however, are not sufficient enough 
to eliminate piracy in that region. The international community has 
finally begun to be aware that there can be no fundamental solution 
to the problem of piracy without effective international aid to deal 
with the chaotic situation in Somalia. 
 
Somalia, which is part of the so-called "Horn of Africa," faces 
important sea routes connecting the Middle East, Asia, and Europe 
through the Suez Canal. In the Cold War era, the war between Somalia 
and Ethiopia was a proxy war between the U.S. and Soviet Union, 
which were struggling for influence there. 
 
Ironically, the military junta, which had lasted more than 20 years, 
collapsed in 1991, after the end of the Cold War. The nation has 
since fallen into a state of anarchy and has become an amalgam of 
armed tribes fighting to defend their territories. 
 
The international community made efforts to improve the situation. 
Based on the ambitious idea that the U.S. must play an active role 
to establish peace in the post-cold war period, the UN dispatched 
American troops to Somalia as peacekeeping operations (PKO) forces 
in 1992. 
 
But counterattacks by armed forces were fierce, and shocking footage 
of a U.S. soldier's body mercilessly being dragged about was aired 
across the world. Following this, the dispatched troops were 
withdrawn from Somalia. Since then, Somalia has become a country 
with which the U.S. and many other countries have severed relations. 
The appearances of pirates represent the state of anarchy at sea. 
 
A provisional federal government was established through the 
intermediation of the UN and neighboring countries four years ago. 
The government settled disputes with some anti-government forces, 
and a new cabinet under a new president and a new prime minister was 
launched this year. 
 
This government controls only some part of the capital Muqdisho 
under the support of the African Union's PKO troops. Attacks or 
abductions of UN members by armed forces have still occurred, and 
the government has no power to crack down on piracy. 
 
In Somalia, 3.2 million citizens, 40 PERCENT  of the population 
there, depend on food provided by the UN and other international 
institutions. There are 1.3 million refugees in the nation and 
400,000 refugees from Somalia outside the nation. 
 
The provisional government is quite unreliable. It is certainly just 
a small bud for now, but the bud must be gradually nurtured. Based 
on this concept, the UN hosted a meeting of donor countries for 
Somalia this month. A number of countries, including Japan, 
participated in the meeting and pledged to offer a total of 25 
billion yen to fund such assistance measures as training police 
officers. 
 
The UN Security Council has decided to look into setting up a UN PKO 
for Somalia by June. 
 
 
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The International Community must have more interest in the present 
state of Somalia. In this sense, it was significant that Foreign 
Minister Nakasone exchanged views with members of the provisional 
Somalia government last month. 
 
The stage for discussion on the government-sponsored antipiracy bill 
governing the dispatch of Maritime Self-Defense Force members has 
been moved to the House of Councillors. It is important to discuss 
details of such contentious issues as weapon-use standards and 
whether to require Diet approval, but it is even more essential to 
conduct discussion in the context of aid for Somalia in order to 
eliminate piracy. 
 
(4) Think of statesmen making laws: Gen Nakatani and antipiracy 
legislation 
 
NIKKEI (Page 2) (Full) 
April 24, 2009 
 
Gen Nakatani, 51, a Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) member, proposed 
to LDP Diet Affairs Committee Chairman Tadamori Oshima, 62, that the 
antipiracy bill be revised. He told Oshima: "Don't you think prior 
Diet approval should be required for Self-Defense Forces (SDF) 
dispatch for an antipiracy mission?" 
 
Surprised at the remark by Nakatani, the chief director of the 
antipiracy special committee, Oshima said: "Absolutely not!" 
Nakatani had secretly carried out coordination (on the matter) even 
with directors from the main opposition Democratic Party (DPJ), but 
his proposal was turned down by Oshima. 
 
The DPJ has placed priority on the issue of prior Diet approval of 
an SDF dispatch. The ruling camp, however, had predicted that if it 
did not yield, only the DPJ would be left in the lurch. In a meeting 
of a nonpartisan parliamentary group, Nakatani said last year: "The 
DPJ can approve it if it is a special measures law." If so, Diet 
approval would be required every time when the SDF is dispatched. 
His colleague in the ruling camp said: "(Nakatani) tries to yield 
too much." 
 
During the Koizumi administration, Nakatani was the first former SDF 
officer to become Defense Agency chief. He handled the Antiterrorism 
Special Measures Law and national emergency legislation. People 
imagined him as a hawk politically and a hard-faced politician. But 
his real nature is somewhat different from his image. 
 
He was born to the founding family of a mid-sized construction 
company in Kochi Prefecture. His grandfather, Sadayori Nakatani, 
served as secretary general of Rikken Seiyukai (Friends of 
Constitutional Government), one of the main political parties in 
prewar Japan. Sadayori refused to join the Taisei Yokusankai 
(Imperial Rule Assistance Association) and he eventually retired 
from the political world. Nakatani, who aimed to be a politician 
when he was young, went on to the National Defense Academy, without 
consulting with his parents. He became unconscious during a Ranger 
unit drill. He also fell off a cliff. 
 
Nakatani later served as a secretary to Koichi Kato, 69, who has a 
strong liberal tint, and then to the late Prime Minister Kiichi 
Miyazawa. He has distanced himself from a group of lawmakers calling 
for a bold security posture. A senior Defense Ministry official, who 
served for Nakatani, made this comment on him: "(Nakatani) has an 
 
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ideal that the Diet is a venue to make laws through debate. He is a 
gentle person. He lacks the art of maneuvering deviously, as well as 
experience." 
 
Rear Admiral Koichiro Bansho, 51, who commanded the reconstruction 
assistance in Iraq, is a close friend of Nakatani. Bansho and 
Nakatani were in the same class at the National Defense Academy and 
at the SDF. Bansho said: "Nakatani is pure. It is difficult for him 
to become a sly person." 
 
Nakatani is aware that in the political world, being pure means 
having both positive and negative aspects. 
 
(5) TOP HEADLINES 
 
Asahi, Mainichi, Yomiuri, Sankei, and Tokyo Shimbun: 
WHO frontloads emergency meeting on swine flu, considering raising 
pandemic alert level; Infection confirmed in Europe 
 
Nikkei: 
Japan, China to agree on technological cooperation in developing 
next-generation cell-phones 
 
Akahata: 
Chairman Shii expresses party's determination to combat national and 
Tokyo maladministration 
 
(6) EDITORIALS 
 
Asahi: 
(1) 10 trillion yen national budget: Country deeply in debt 
(2) Somalia piracy: Failed country must be rebuilt 
 
Mainichi: 
(1) Foreign Ministry Nakasone's speech: Japan must take the 
leadership in nuclear disarmament initiative 
(2) Supplementary budget: Keep in mind the risk of issuing 
government bonds 
 
Yomiuri: 
(1) Dual-use satellite system should be promoted 
(2) Government's worst economic outlook in postwar period must be 
overcome by the power of the private sector 
 
Nikkei: 
(1) Extra budget requires thorough Diet deliberations 
(2) Nakasone disarmament speech a message to the world 
 
Sankei: 
(1) Cabinet must fulfill its responsibility, including extra budget 
(2) Hitachi mislabeling scandal a damper on dissemination of 
eco-friendly home appliances 
 
Tokyo Shimbun: 
(1) Swine flu: Infection knows no borders 
(2) Prime Minister Aso's trip to China: Environmental cooperation 
helpful to dispel distrust 
 
Akahata: 
(1) Supplementary budget: Critical situation requires deep 
self-reflection 
(7) Prime Minister's schedule, April 27 
 
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NIKKEI (Page 2) (Full) 
April 28, 2009 
 
08:23 
Attended a meeting on anti-swine flu measures by cabinet ministers 
at the Kantei. Chief Cabinet Secretary Kawamura stayed behind. 
 
08:49 
Attended a cabinet meeting. Environment Minister Saito stayed 
behind. 
 
09:15 
Met Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary Konoike. 
 
11:30 
Met with Saudi Arabian Ambassador to Japan Trad. Followed by Lower 
House member Kagita. 
 
13:02 
Attended a Lower House plenary session. 
 
13:22 
Met New Komeito President Ota. 
 
13:31 
Attended an Upper House plenary session. 
 
15:03 
Attended a meeting of the Education Rebuilding Council at the 
Kantei. 
 
16:11 
Met Deputy Foreign Minister Sasae and Asian and Oceanian Affairs 
Bureau Director General Saiki, with Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary 
Matsumoto present. 
 
17:01 
Attended an LDP executive meeting in the Diet Building. Diet Affairs 
Committee Chairman Oshima stayed behind. 
 
17:32 
Arrived at the Kantei. 
 
18:16 
Attended a meeting of Keizai Doyukai (Japanese Association of 
Corporate Executives) members at the Industry Club of Japan in 
Marunouchi. 
 
18:51 
Met with classmates in Gakushuin Elementary School at City Club of 
Tokyo, a club for members only, in Akasaka. 
 
21:21 
Returned to his official residence. 
 
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