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SUBJECT:  DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 08/05/09 
 
INDEX: 
 
(1) Chief Cabinet Secretary Takeo Kawamura: Japanese government 
welcomes release of U.S. reporters (Jiji Press) 
(2) Chief Cabinet Secretary Takeo Kawamura: Japanese government 
given advance notice on ex-President Clinton's trip to North Korea 
(Tokyo Shimbun) 
(3) Families of abductees urge government to make moves to resolve 
abduction issue following release of U.S. journalists (Tokyo 
Shimbun) 
(4) U.S.-Japan mission to form "G-2" for a nuclear-weapon-free 
world: taking the lead in striking a balance between the elimination 
of nuclear arms and the peaceful use of nuclear energy (Nikkei) 
(5) Lower House Foreign Affairs Committee chair Taro Kono: Three 
no-nuclear principles have already fallen apart (Tokyo Shimbun) 
(6) Minshuto to staff envisaged national strategy bureau with local 
representatives based on idea that came up in Ozawa-Hashimoto 
meeting (Yomiuri) 
(7) Number of constituencies where DPJ, SDP, PNP will cooperate will 
increase three-fold, while number where they will compete will 
decrease to one-third of the number for previous election: 
Constituency adjustments with eye on formation of coalition 
government now over (Nikkei) 
(8) 2009 Lower House election: Hereditary candidates in torment 
(Yomiuri) 
 
ARTICLES: 
 
(1) Chief Cabinet Secretary Takeo Kawamura: Japanese government 
welcomes release of U.S. reporters 
 
JIJI.COM (Full) 
12:01, August 5, 2009 
 
At a news conference on the morning of August 5, Chief Cabinet 
Secretary Takeo Kawamura stated that "the Japanese government 
welcomes" the release of the U.S. reporters as a result of former 
President Bill Clinton's visit to North Korea. He also stated that, 
"We hope that this will lead to progress in U.S.-DRPK talks and in 
the Six-Party Talks, resulting in progress in the abduction issue 
and other pending issues and a move in the direction of 
normalization of Japan-DPRK relations." 
 
Kawamura also revealed that the Japanese government had received 
advance notice of Clinton's visit. However, he refrained from 
commenting on when and how the notice was given. 
 
(2) Chief Cabinet Secretary Takeo Kawamura: Japanese government 
given advance notice on ex-President Clinton's trip to North Korea 
 
TOKYO SHIMBUN ONLINE (Full) 
Evening, August 5, 2009 
 
Chief Cabinet Secretary Takeo Kawamura revealed at a news conference 
on the morning of August 5 that "the Japanese government received an 
advance notice (from the U.S. government)" on the visit by former 
President Bill Clinton to North Korea. However, Kawamura avoided 
answering a question on whether Japan had been informed about the 
details of Clinton's itinerary, such as his meeting with General 
Secretary Kim Jong Il. "I will refrain from making any comments," he 
said. 
 
 
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Kawamura indicated that "the Japanese government also welcomes" the 
release of the two female U.S. reporters. With regard to the impact 
of Clinton's visit on the nuclear and abduction issues, Kawamura 
limited his comments, saying only: "(The trip to the DPRK) was 
separate from the nuclear issue and was for the humanitarian purpose 
of working for the release of the two reporters. I am not in a 
position to comment on the meeting with General Secretary Kim." 
 
(3) Families of abductees urge government to make moves to resolve 
abduction issue following release of U.S. journalists 
 
TOKYO SHIMBUN ONLINE (Abridged slightly) 
Evening, August 5, 2009 
 
The two American female journalists who were detained in North Korea 
were released earlier today owing to a visit to North Korea by 
former U.S. President Bill Clinton. Meanwhile, families of Japanese 
abductees urged the government and influential figures later today 
to take aggressive measures, saying, "We want to see anyone, anyone 
at all in Japan, to make moves toward resolving (the abduction 
issue)." 
 
Shigeru Yokota, 76, the father of Megumi Yokota, who went missing at 
the age of 13, said, "I want to see anyone, even a private citizen, 
conduct talks with North Korea." North Korea promised during the 
working-level talks with Japan last August to establish a committee 
to reinvestigate (the fate of the Japanese abductees). That promise 
has not been delivered. "This side should push the North to take 
action," Yokota said in frustration with the abduction issue that 
has not moved forward. 
 
Kenichi Ichikawa, 64, elder brother of Shuichi Ichikawa who went 
missing at 23, expressed his concern that North Korea might again 
set the pace. He thinks both the abduction issue and the Six-Party 
Talks have been proceeding according to North Korea's intentions. 
Ichikawa said that he is envious that the two American journalists 
can now return home. 
 
(4) U.S.-Japan mission to form "G-2" for a nuclear-weapon-free 
world: 
taking the lead in striking a balance between the elimination of 
nuclear arms and the peaceful use of nuclear energy 
 
NIKKEI (Page 3) (Excerpts) 
August 3, 2009 
 
Naoaki Okabe, chief editor 
 
This year marks the 20th anniversary of the end of the Cold War. It 
will be a year in which the world takes a historic step toward the 
elimination of nuclear weapons and the peaceful use of nuclear 
energy. Against the background of the danger of nuclear 
proliferation in North Korea and Iran, U.S. President Barack Obama 
has proposed a "world without nuclear weapons" and taken steps to 
hold U.S.-Russian nuclear disarmament talks. Preparations for a 
conference to review the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) in 
spring 2010 are also in progress. 
 
Meanwhile, the prevention of global warming has become a global 
issue in the run-up to the Conference on the UN Framework Convention 
on Climate Change (the Copenhagen Conference) in late 2009. The key 
to preventing global warming is nuclear energy.  Japan, the only 
 
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country on which an atomic bomb has been dropped, and America, the 
only country that has used an atomic bomb, are tasked with a great 
historic mission to strike a balance between the elimination of 
nuclear arms and the peaceful use of nuclear energy. 
 
"As the only nuclear power to have used a nuclear weapon, the United 
States has a moral responsibility to act," remarked Obama in a 
speech in Prague this spring. His words carried the weight of 64 
years of history. 
 
Twenty years after the end of the Cold War has the world finally 
come to take the "road to sanity" (Alva Myrdal, Nobel Peace Prize 
laureate)? 
 
In the final phase of the Cold War, Europe became the arena of a 
nuclear crisis amid the U.S.-Soviet confrontation. However, the 
present crisis of nuclear proliferation is even more dangerous than 
the conflict of the two superpowers during the Cold War era. The 
international community's virtual neglect of the issue of the 
possession of nuclear arms by India and Pakistan has led to the 
crisis of nuclear proliferation in North Korea and Iran. There is 
also the potential danger of nuclear terrorism. Learning a lesson 
from this experience, the international community has only one 
option -- to unite, adopt a firm attitude, and take action with 
respect to the crisis of nuclear proliferation. 
 
While Obama took care to say that a "world without nuclear weapons" 
may not be achieved quickly - "perhaps not in my lifetime" - now is 
the time to answer the question of what course of action to take to 
realize this goal. Yoriko Kawaguchi, former minister of foreign 
affairs and environment minister and co-chair of the International 
Commission on Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament, describes 
the "road map" for the elimination of nuclear arms as follows: 
 
The first phase is up to 2012. The U.S. ratifies the Comprehensive 
Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) and makes progress in nuclear disarmament 
talks with Russia. Negotiation for the Fissile Material Cutoff 
Treaty is concluded. The second phase lasts until 2025. The number 
of nuclear arms is reduced to the minimum. The goal is to have zero 
nuclear weapons in the third and last phase beyond 2025. 
 
The road map toward a nuclear-free world coincides almost completely 
with the road map for the prevention of global warming - from the 
Kyoto Protocol to the post-Kyoto agreement (mid-term targets), and 
finally, the long-term targets. 
 
This is because "the worst crises for the 21st Century are the 
nuclear crisis and the crisis of global warming." (Kawaguchi) 
 
The trump card for the prevention of global warming is the peaceful 
use of nuclear energy. While it is necessary to make maximum efforts 
to develop solar energy, wind power generation, and other new forms 
of energy, this will not be sufficient. It is critical to increase 
the ratio of nuclear power generation. This is the reason why there 
is a worldwide trend toward returning to nuclear energy. 
 
In the case of Japan, it should first increase the utilization rate 
of nuclear power plants from the current 60 percent level. Director 
General Toru Ishida of the Agency of Natural Resources and Energy 
says: "Our goal is for nuclear power to cover 40 percent of power 
generation. However, this needs to be increased to 50 percent by 
building new nuclear power plants and other measures if we are to 
 
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meet the long-term target for slashing greenhouse gas emissions." 
 
Ishida also points out that there is a considerable gap between the 
international appraisal of Japan's nuclear energy technology and the 
perceived role of nuclear power plants in the country." The only way 
to narrow this gap is by thoroughgoing safety measures. 
 
Nuclear inspections by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) 
will become more important for preventing proliferation while 
promoting the peaceful use of nuclear energy. With greater reliance 
on nuclear power generation, the functions of the IAEA will need to 
be reinforced. Close collaboration with the UN Security Council will 
also be required. The notion of a fuel bank should also be 
considered to prevent the proliferation of uranium enrichment and 
reprocessing technology. A multinational management framework will 
be necessary for peaceful use of nuclear energy. 
 
A dramatic historical change has taken place. Former U.S. Secretary 
of State Henry Kissinger and other players behind the Cold War are 
now all calling for denuclearization because it is increasingly 
dangerous to rely on nuclear weapons for deterrence, and this is 
gaining widespread support among the world leaders from the Cold War 
era. 
 
How can we take advantage of this historic trend? Japan's role is of 
critical importance. The fact that it has consistently taken action 
for the elimination of nuclear arms by sending out messages from 
Hiroshima and Nagasaki and through UN resolutions is of great 
significance. Yukiya Amano, who has been elected as the "nuclear 
watchdog" (IAEA director general), eyes the popularization of the 
Japanese model. "It is meaningful to share Japan's experience with 
the world," he notes. 
 
In terms of a nuclear-free world and the peaceful use of nuclear 
energy, the countries that will play the role of G-2 are Japan and 
the U.S., not the U.S. and China. It is also the United States' 
mission to demand nuclear disarmament efforts from China. The only 
atomic-bombed country and the only country that has ever used 
nuclear weapons should overcome history and work hand in hand to 
surmount the global crisis of the 21st Century. 
 
(5) Lower House Foreign Affairs Committee chair Taro Kono: Three 
no-nuclear principles have already fallen apart 
 
TOKYO SHIMBUN (Page 23) (Full) 
August 5, 2009 
 
Taro Kono, chairman of the House of Representatives Foreign Affairs 
Committee, gave an interview to Tokyo Shimbun's "special reporting 
section" and said: "The government has been deceiving the people. 
The three no-nuclear principles have already fallen apart." Kono met 
former Vice Foreign Minister Ryohei Murata on July 10 and confirmed 
the existence of a "secret nuclear agreement" between Japan and the 
U.S. He is demanding that the government change its statement to the 
Diet (that no such agreement existed). 
 
Kono said that he talked with Murata for over one hour. In addition, 
testimony from several people involved in this matter, statements by 
former U.S. Ambassador Edwin Reischauer and retired Rear Admiral 
Gene LaRoque, and other evidence had led him to believe that the 
"secret agreement" existed. 
 
 
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He also said: "It is absurd that the foreign minister and other 
officials are insisting that there was no such agreement without 
even investigating, despite the fact that official documents showing 
the existence of the secret agreement had been made public in the 
U.S. This is unacceptable to the public. The government has the 
responsibility to provide an explanation. Since a number of prime 
ministers and foreign ministers knew about this, the politicians 
should take the blame." 
 
With regard to whether nuclear arms should be brought into Japan, 
Kono stated: "The present situation is different from during the 
Cold War era, so a proper debate on nuclear deterrence should be 
conducted. Even if we are to rely on the U.S. nuclear umbrella, 
there is too much ambiguity in matters such as the types of nuclear 
arms and whether Japan will also be allowed to control the nuclear 
button. The secret agreement is nothing but an obstacle to this 
debate." 
 
Kono's pursuit of this issue in the previous Diet session fell 
through with the dissolution of the Diet. He said that while there 
is no mechanism for the members of the next committee to take over 
this issue, "if the Foreign Affairs Committee determines that the 
government's statement is false and is unacceptable, the 
deliberation process will stop. It has such power, at least. I hope 
the next committee chairman will continue to pursue this issue," 
expressing his hope. 
 
(6) Minshuto to staff envisaged national strategy bureau with local 
representatives based on idea that came up in Ozawa-Hashimoto 
meeting 
 
YOMIURI (Page 1) (Full) 
August 5, 2009 
 
Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) President Yukio Hatoyama held a 
press conference yesterday in which he revealed a plan to appoint 
local representatives as members of the envisaged national strategy 
bureau and the administrative renovation council if it takes over 
the reins of government in the upcoming House of Representatives 
election. The two bodies are planned to be placed directly under the 
control of the Prime Minister. The objective of this plan is to have 
the wishes of local governments reflected (in the central 
government) in reviewing role-sharing between the central and local 
governments. 
 
The DPJ manifesto (campaign pledges) vows to establish the national 
strategy bureau to formulate a budgetary framework under the 
initiative of lawmakers and the administrative renovation council to 
review the overall administration. 
 
At the press conference, Hatoyama said emphatically: "The 
administrative renovation council will fundamentally reexamine the 
modalities of the central and local governments." Hatoyama also 
explained the plan to appoint local representatives this way: "We 
will make certain that the administrative renovation council and the 
national strategy bureau are staffed with one to several local 
representatives each." 
 
According to a DPJ executive, the idea of appointing local 
representatives to the national strategy bureau and other bodies 
came up during the meeting yesterday between DPJ Deputy President 
Ichiro Ozawa and Osaka Gov. Toru Hashimoto. Hashimoto proposed 
 
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appointing local leaders to key cabinet posts, such as the national 
strategic bureau, and Ozawa replied, "That's a good idea," according 
to the DPJ executive. 
 
After his meeting with Hashimoto, Ozawa told the press corps, "We 
have agreed on a plan to build a new national governing system in 
collaboration with local representatives." Ozawa also indicated that 
he now clearly understands Hashimoto's idea of introducing a doshu 
regional bloc system. 
 
(7) Number of constituencies where DPJ, SDP, PNP will cooperate will 
increase three-fold, while number where they will compete will 
decrease to one-third of the number for previous election: 
Constituency adjustments with eye on formation of coalition 
government now over 
 
NIKKEI (Page 2) (Full) 
August 5, 2009 
 
The Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) on July 30 finished the work of 
selecting candidates for the Lower House election on August 30. It 
has cut the number of candidates running on its ticket by 20 from 
the 2005 Lower House election. On the other hand, it has increased 
cooperation to other opposition parties in the form of increasing 
endorsements given to candidates fielded by the Social Democratic 
Party (SDP) and the People's New Party (PNP) or not fielding its own 
candidates where other opposition parties are fielding their own 
candidates to 27, triple the number from the previous election. The 
number of constituencies where DPJ candidates will be competing with 
candidates of other opposition parties has been decreased from 46 in 
the previous Lower House election to 15. The DPJ has adopted this 
strategy with an eye on the establishment of a coalition government 
after the Lower House election. 
 
Small parties alarmed about being pushed into the background 
 
The DPJ has endorsed candidates for 269 single-seat constituencies 
out of 300. In 24 constituencies, it will recommend candidates 
fielded by other opposition parties, instead of fielding its own 
candidates. It will effectively support Makiko Tanaka, a 
non-affiliated candidate to run in the Niigata No. 5 Constituency, 
and Tetsuo Kanno, who will run on the SDP ticket in the Miyagi No. 6 
Constituency, by not fielding its own candidates there. There are 
three such constituencies. 
 
Neither the SDP nor the PNP recommended any DPJ candidates in the 
previous election. However, the SDP will recommend DPJ candidates in 
21 constituencies and the PNP will recommend DPJ candidates in 248 
constituencies, substantively reducing the number of constituencies 
where opposition parties' candidates will vie with one another. 
 
The reason opposition parties are strengthening their election 
cooperation is to win anti-LDP votes, by unifying candidates running 
from opposition parties. Their common aim is to force the LDP and 
the New Komeito into the minority. For instance, in the Hyogo No. 6 
Constituency, the SDP will not field its own candidate, and the PNP 
will recommend a DPJ candidate. In the previous election, an LDP 
candidate won the seat there, as the DPN and the SDP respectively 
put up their own candidates. The combined votes won by the DPJ and 
SDP candidates exceed the number of votes won by the LDP candidate. 
 
In the meantime, candidates of both the DPJ and the SDP will run in 
 
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14 constituencies, including the Aomori No. 1 Constituency and the 
Saitama 13 Constituency. A DPJ candidate and a PNP candidate will 
compete only in the Okayama No. 2 Constituency. This is because 
although the three opposition parties have a common goal of bringing 
about a power shift, small parties, which are alarmed about the 
possibility of being pushed into the background between the two 
major parties, want to secure as many seats as possible. 
 
Among competing constituencies, where both the DPJ and the SDP put 
up their candidates, the combined votes secured by both parties' 
candidates in the Kanagawa No. 12 Constituency exceeds votes won by 
the LDP candidate who was elected. Deputy President Ichiro Ozawa 
began making adjustments toward unifying candidates there. However, 
the SDP did not give in. Its senior member said: "This is our 
incumbent lawmakers' constituency. It is the DPJ that should give 
in." 
 
Impact of JCP votes holds key 
 
Since the Japanese Communist Party (JCP) has drastically cut back on 
the number of candidates it will field in single-seat constituencies 
- from 275 in the previous election to 152, the impact of JCP votes 
cannot be disregarded. A senior DPJ Election Committee member 
expressed hopes, "Each constituency has 10,000 to 30,000 JCP votes. 
We hope 70 percent of those votes come to the DPJ." 
 
A DPJ candidate was defeated by an LDP candidate by about 1,400 
votes in the Gunma No. 2 Constituency. Provided that 70 percent of 
JCP votes go to a DPJ candidate, votes to be secured by a DPJ 
candidate will top those to be won by an LDP candidate. 
 
The situation is similar in the Hokkaido No. 3 Constituency and the 
Aichi No. 8 Constituency. 
 
(8) 2009 Lower House election: Hereditary candidates in torment 
 
YOMIURI (Page 4) (Abridged slightly) 
August 5, 2009 
 
At an open forum held on the evening of July 28 at the Miura Civic 
Hall in the No.11 district in Kanagawa Prefecture, Shinjiro Koizumi, 
a candidate on the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) ticket to run in 
the upcoming House of Representatives election, refuted other 
candidates' criticism of the hereditary-seat system of passing down 
Diet seats to descendents. He asserted: "The hereditary system for 
politicians is different from that for kabuki actors and rakugo 
(sit-down comedy) performers. Politicians get hereditary seats after 
they are elected by voters. 
 
The practice of candidates running for the Diet seats held by their 
parents prevents capable human resources from entering the political 
community. Following growing criticism of the hereditary-seat 
system, the LDP at one point this spring looked into the 
appropriateness of endorsing candidates running for Diet seats held 
by their parents, including Shinjiro, the second son of former Prime 
Minister Junichiro Koizumi. The LDP decided to place full-scale 
restrictions on hereditary candidates in the election after the next 
Lower House election. 
 
The Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) ridicules the Kanagawa No. 11 
district as a 100-year-old Koizumi dynasty. Shinjiro's 
great-grandfather Matajiro Koizumi served as posts and 
 
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telecommunications minister and his grandfather Junya was defense 
director general. Shinjiro, who would be a fourth-generation 
lawmaker, is a synonym for hereditary candidates. 
 
The Shinjiro camp has formulated a strategy while calculating the 
merits and demerits of hereditary candidates. 
 
Shinjiro refrained from giving stumping speeches until late June 
because Hideaki Takeuchi, secretary general of the LDP Kanagawa 
chapter, told him that he should first visit supporters who also 
backed his father. 
 
However, since a candidate backed by Junichiro was defeated in the 
June 28 Yokosuka mayoral election, Shinjiro became increasingly 
alarmed and took to the streets to campaign. 
 
When Shinjiro gives a speech, he is always surrounded by a crowd. 
Media reports on the hereditary issue have contributed to raising 
Shinjiro's name recognition. On Aug. 2 when his campaign office 
opened in Yokosuka City, he stressed: "Every day I am severely 
criticism." He said that he did not expect to receive campaign 
support from his father and older brother, actor Kotaro Koizumi. He 
did not ask the New Komeito to recommend him and rejected the LDP's 
offer to let him also run in the proportional representation race. 
He appears to be determined to do away with his negative image of 
being weak and relying on his father's influence. 
 
Shinjiro Koizumi and DPJ candidate Katsuhito Yokokume, who are in 
their 20's, will compete in the Kanagawa No. 11 district. 
 
Yokokume said at a gathering: "It is impossible for me to compete 
with a hereditary candidate. But it is my job to correct such 
politics." Koizumi and Yokokume have nothing in common except being 
young. Yokokume, a native of Aichi Prefecture, decided to run in the 
Kanagawa No. 11 district, thinking that LDP-led politics should be 
reviewed in the birthplace of Koizumi reform. 
 
On the morning of July 29 in Mihama Ward, Chiba City, Shoichi Usui 
(candidate on the LDP ticket) spoke to about 30 aged women, who were 
there to play gateball: "My father, Hideo, retired after serving as 
a Diet member for 28 years. I will do my best to serve the nation." 
 
 
Usui decided to mention that he is a hereditary candidate based on 
his judgment that if he does not refer to his father, he will be 
regarded as a faithless son. His father Hideo was elected to the 
Lower House eight times. His grandfather Soichi served in both Diet 
chambers. He has many elderly supporters, who call themselves 
members of the Usui party. Therefore, Shoichi Usui is positive about 
being a hereditary candidate, noting: "The hereditary issue is not 
totally negative. It has raised my name recognition." 
 
However, Usui has never mentioned being a hereditary candidate in 
his stumping speeches. 
 
DPJ candidate Kaname Tajima, in a DPJ meeting on July 26 in Chiba 
City, sought to constrain Usui, saying: "Considering the fact that 
both Abe and Fukuda gave up their administrations, it is obvious 
that the hereditary-seat system has its evils. Tajima, however, 
intends to criticize hereditary candidates only in DPJ meetings, 
thinking that if he criticizes the hereditary system, he will be 
seen as carrying out negative campaigning. 
 
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