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SUBJECT: JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 08/06/09 
 
Index: 
 
1) Top headlines 
2) Editorials 
3) Prime Minister's daily schedule (Nikkei) 
 
4) Ambassador-designate Roos expected to use expertise in promoting 
cooperation between U.S., Japan on environmental issue (Mainichi) 
 
 
Former President Clinton's trip to Pyongyang: 
5) Senior official: Former President Clinton during Pyongyang visit 
asked North Korea to resolve Japan's abductee issue, maintain 
Six-Party Talks framework (Nikkei) 
6) Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) concerned about ramifications of 
Clinton trip to Pyongyang (Yomiuri) 
 
Election campaign: 
7) Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) President Hatoyama in speech at 
Hiroshima to commit his party if in power to greater Japanese 
involvement in nonproliferation (Tokyo Shimbun) 
8) Prime Minister Aso on the campaign trail blasts the DPJ for 
promising to sign an FTA with the U.S. as harmful to Japan's farmers 
(Tokyo Shimbun) 
9) Private forum to sponsor a party heads debate on August 12 (Tokyo 
Shimbun) 
10) Yoshimi Watanabe, former LDP rebel who left the party, has 
gathered over a dozen potential members for his own fledgling party 
(Yomiuri) 
 
Defense and security issues: 
11) DPJ campaigning on revising the plan to relocate MCAS Futenma 
(Yomiuri) 
12) New Komeito campaigning on steadily moving toward full 
implementation of USFJ realignment plan; Japan Communist Party 
praising Obama peace speech (Yomiuri) 
13) Private think tank calls for party commitments in campaign to 
discussing use of right of collective self-defense (Sankei) 
 
Economic affairs: 
14) METI analyzes DPJ plan to cut carbon emissions and estimates it 
would cost each household 360,000 yen (about $3,800) (Sankei) 
15) DPJ plans to have its newly created Cabinet Strategy Bureau be 
the lynchpin in budget compilation (Yomiuri) 
Government study finds that target of having 30% of government 16) 
workforce be women has been reached (Tokyo Shimbun) 
 
Articles: 
 
1) TOP HEADLINES 
 
Asahi, Mainichi, Yomiuri: 
Lawsuits over A-bomb-related illnesses to be settled: Government to 
provide relief for all plaintiffs: Plaintiffs to accept government 
plan 
 
Nikkei: 
Currencies of emerging nations rising in exchange markets against 
backdrop of hopes for economic recovery ahead of other countries 
 
Sankei: 
Overall evaluation method-based competitive tenders held by 
 
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Environment Ministry: Only one bid placed for 70 percent of tenders; 
Concealed discretionary contracts indicated 
 
Tokyo Shimbun: 
Former U.S. president urges North Korea to settle abduction issue 
 
Akahata: 
World Conference against A & H Bombs adopts international 
declaration calling for making next year's NPT Review Conference 
turning point for nuclear abolition 
 
2) EDITORIALS 
 
Asahi: 
(1) Sixty-four years since atomic-bombing: Time to expand nonnuclear 
umbrella 
 
Mainichi: 
(1) Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Provide impetus to 
move toward nuclear-free world: Speed up efforts to relieve A-bomb 
victims 
 
Yomiuri: 
(1) Memorial service for A-bomb victims: How to make the most of 
President Obama's nuclear-free world declaration? 
(2) Former U.S. president Clinton in Pyongyang: Will the release of 
American journalists bring about new developments? 
 
Nikkei: 
(1) Japan should play leading role for nuclear-free world 
(2) U.S. should adhere to principles regarding North Korea's nuclear 
development program 
 
Sankei: 
(1) Anniversary of atomic bombing: Reaffirm resolution not to allow 
North Korea's nuclear program 
(2) Release of American journalists: Solidify common strategy among 
Japan, U.S., and South Korea 
 
Tokyo Shimbun: 
(1) Thoughts on A-bomb day: Consider it personally 
 
Akahata: 
(1) Sixty-four years since atomic bombing: Abolish nuclear arms in 
response to A-bomb victims' long-cherished hope 
 
3) Prime Minister's Official Residence (Kantei) 
 
Prime Minister's schedule, August 5 
 
NIKKEI (Page 2) (Full) 
August 6, 2009 
 
07:46 
Took a walk near official residence 
 
09:54 
Met Chief Cabinet Secretary Takeo Kawamura, Health Minister Yoichi 
Masuzoe, and Justice Minister Eisuke Mori at official residence 
 
11:06 
Departed Haneda Airport on ANA flight 813 
 
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12:10 
Arrived at Yonego Airport 
 
12:38 
Stump speech in front of JR Yonego station 
 
13:25 
Left Yonego station on Yakumo-18 train 
 
15:41 
Arrived at JR Okayama station 
 
15:45 
Speech at Hotel Granvia, Okayama 
 
16:54 
Speech at gymnasium in Mitsu Sports Park 
 
18:20 
Speech at Kasaoka Civic Hall in Kasaoka City 
 
19:24 
Stump speech in front of JR Fukuyama station in Fukuyama City, 
Hiroshima Prefecture 
 
20:03 
Left Fukuyama station on Hikari-583 train 
 
20:28 
Arrived at JR Hiroshima station 
 
20:48 
Met Health Minister Masuzoe at Grand Prince Hotel Hiroshima; stayed 
overnight 
 
4) Confirmation of U.S. Ambassador to Japan Roos: Possibility of 
Japan-U.S. cooperation on environment policy 
 
MAINICHI (Page 7) (Full) 
August 6, 2009 
 
Yoso Furumoto, Washington; Hironori Yoshitomi, Los Angeles 
 
U.S. President Barack Obama's appointment of lawyer John Roos, 54, 
as the next ambassador to Japan was confirmed by the Senate 
Committee on Foreign Relations on August 4. The appointment is now 
expected to be approved officially by the full Senate. There have 
been reports that Roos's appointment is a reward for raising 
substantial political funds during the presidential election 
campaign, but his political ideology and policies are similar to 
President Obama, and expectations are now being voiced on new 
possibilities of Japan-U.S. cooperation in clean energy, an area he 
is knowledgeable about. 
 
Volunteered for the job 
 
"Ever since I served as an intern in the White House during law 
school, I have dreamed of one day re-entering public service and 
giving something back to my country." (Roos, at the Senate Foreign 
Relations Committee hearing on July 23) 
 
 
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According to Daniel Okimoto, professor emeritus at Stanford 
University who is close to Roos, the Obama administration's 
transition team sounded out Roos on various posts. Roos made his 
choice: "My first preference is ambassador to Japan. I think it is 
an important and challenging job." 
 
Roos's close associates think that appointing the president's 
personal friend to be the ambassador in a certain country is a sign 
of the importance attached to that country. 
 
President Obama has pointed out that "Japan and the U.S. both have 
the most advanced technology" in the area of clean energy, and 
"cooperation between the two countries will produce a synergy 
effect." Okimoto noted that since Roos has also emphasized his 
experience in developing companies involved with clean energy at the 
hearing, it is now widely believed that one reason for his 
appointment is bilateral cooperation in this field. 
 
Coordinator-type 
 
"(As CEO,) I have learned the value of listening carefully, keeping 
an open mind, and consulting with the experts before making major 
decisions." (Roos at July 23 Senate committee hearing) 
 
Listening humbly to other people's opinion is probably something 
Roos has in common with the President. 
 
Roos has worked for many years in the Silicon Valley in California, 
where there is a concentration of IT companies. He is the chief 
executive officer (CEO) of a law firm which counts among its clients 
Google and Apple Computer. However, the image derived from his own 
words and those of people around him is that he is a 
"coordinator-type leader." 
 
Former Senator Bill Bradley, who has known Roos for nearly 30 years, 
introduced him at the Senate hearing as a typical example of "a 
person people do not even realize is a leader" and praised him for 
"having the extraordinary ability of finding a meeting point among 
conflicting parties." 
 
FORMER PRESIDENT CLINTON'S TRIP TO PYONGYANG 
 
5) Clinton calls for N. Korea to resolve abduction issue 
 
NIKKEI (Page 1) (Abridged) 
August 6, 2009 
 
Former U.S. President Clinton recently visited North Korea, where he 
met with that country's leader Kim Jong Il and negotiated for the 
release of two detained U.S. female reporters. On that occasion, 
Clinton asked Kim for an all-out solution to the issue of Japanese 
and South Korean nationals abducted to North Korea, a high-ranking 
official of the Obama administration told the Nihon Keizai Shimbun 
in a telephone interview yesterday. The official said the United 
States would maintain the framework of the Six-Party talks in its 
bilateral relations with North Korea and would try for the time 
being to reach an agreement to hold five-party talks among the 
six-party members excluding North Korea. The official also said the 
United States would not hold comprehensive bilateral talks with 
North Korea at once. 
 
6) LDP fears new developments behind Japan's back; DPJ set to 
 
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monitor situation 
 
YOMIURI (Page 2) (Abridged slightly) 
August 6, 2009 
 
The surprise visit to North Korea by former U.S. President Bill 
Clinton has brought about the possibility that the North Korean 
issue, including its nuclear development, will enter a new phase. 
The ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and the main opposition 
Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) are now vying with each other to win 
the reins of government in the upcoming House of Representatives 
election. Their abilities to deal with the new situation will be 
tested. 
 
Teaming up with the government, the LDP has taken a hard-line stance 
toward North Korea. The LDP manifesto clearly stipulates that 
(Japan) will not extend economic assistance to North Korea unless 
there is progress on the abduction issue. In a stump speech in 
Tottori yesterday, Prime Minister Taro Aso renewed his criticism (of 
North Korea) by describing the abduction issue as state-sponsored 
crime. 
 
The LDP is highly alarmed at the possibility that U.S.-DPRK talks 
will take place following the former U.S. President's visit to 
Pyongyang and the North Korean issue will move forward behind 
Japan's back. Foreign Affairs Research Commission Chairman Taku 
Yamasaki indicated that Japan might be pressed to provide massive 
assistance in return for progress on the nuclear issue. 
 
The DPJ, too, intends to adopt a severe policy toward the North. The 
DPJ policy platform stipulates that (a DPJ administration) will take 
resolute measures to make North Korea abandon its weapons of mass 
destruction. 
 
DPJ Secretary General Katsuya Okada yesterday evaluated Clinton's 
visit to North Korea positively, saying, "There is a possibility 
that it will prompt (North Korea) to come to the negotiating table." 
At the same time, views in the party are split on foreign and 
security policies. As such, many LDP lawmakers are poised to simply 
monitor the situation carefully. 
 
ELECTION CAMPAIGN 
 
7) DPJ's Hatoyama to announce active involvement in nuclear 
non-proliferation in Hiroshima today 
 
TOKYO SHIMBUN (Page 2) (Full) 
August 6, 2009 
 
Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) President Yukio Hatoyama will 
announce a policy of active involvement in reinforcing the Nuclear 
Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) regime after attending the peace 
memorial ceremony in Hiroshima on August 6. He will reiterate that 
North Korea's possession of nuclear arms is absolutely unacceptable 
and emphasize the party's pledge to "take the lead in eliminating 
nuclear weapons" in its manifesto. The above was revealed by a DPJ 
source on August 5. 
 
U.S. President Barack Obama has announced that a "nuclear security 
summit" in Washington will be held in March 2010 to give support to 
maintaining the NPT regime ahead of the UN NPT Review Conference in 
May. Hatoyama reckons that active support for the NPT will also 
 
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contribute to strengthening the Japan-U.S. relationship. He will 
announce the promotion of technical cooperation for the peaceful use 
of nuclear energy and other policies. 
 
Obama mentioned the "moral responsibility" of the only country that 
has used a nuclear weapon in his speech in Prague in April calling 
for a "world without nuclear weapons." In response to this, Hatoyama 
will also announce that as the "only atomic-bombed country," Japan 
will cooperation with the United States to play a leading role in 
the international community's efforts toward the elimination of 
nuclear arms. The DPJ is contemplating a plan for Hatoyama to attend 
the NPT Review Conference as the first Japanese prime minister to do 
so if he becomes the prime minister. 
 
8) Aso criticizes DPJ's decision to revise pledge for a 
Japan-U.S.FTA 
 
TOKYO SHIMBUN (Page 2) (Full) 
August 6, 2009 
 
In a campaign speech in Yonago, Tottori Prefecture, yesterday, Prime 
Minister Taro Aso criticized the Democratic Party of Japan's (DPJ) 
decision to revise its pledge to conclude a free trade agreement 
(FTA) with the U.S. The main opposition party inserted the pledge in 
its policy platform for the upcoming House of Representatives 
election. Aso said: 
 
"The manifest clearly noted, 'The party will liberalize trade and 
conclude an FTA.' ... Agriculture is the basis of our nation. It is 
wrong to consider that low-priced food, even if it is somewhat 
harmful, is welcome. In the fear that we might be pressed to buy 
products contaminated by agrichemicals, we have stressed the need to 
raise the nation's food self-sufficiency rate." 
 
Meanwhile, DPJ President Yukio Hatoyama yesterday tried to seek 
public support for a change of government and divert the prime 
minister's attack on the DPJ by underscoring its conservative policy 
imprint. He remarked in a campaign speech in Sakai City, Fukui 
Prefecture: 
 
"This is said to be an area with strong support basis for 
conservatism, but we are no longer in an age of selecting 
conservatism or reform. The key point is which party can carry out 
politics that live up to public expectations." 
 
9) Forum sponsors Aso-Hatoyama debate for Aug. 12 
 
TOKYO SHIMBUN (Page 2) (Full) 
August 6, 2009 
 
The "21st century ad hoc commission to build a new Japan," composed 
of knowledgeable persons, announced yesterday that Prime Minister 
Taro Aso, the president of the Liberal Democratic Party, and 
Democratic Party of Japan President Yukio Hatoyama will hold a 
party-heads debate at a Tokyo hotel on the afternoon of Aug. 12. 
 
The exchange will last for an hour and a half from 4:00 p.m. The two 
party leaders will deliver speeches and then hold a one-on-one 
debate in the form of asking questions and relying to the other 
side's questions. 
 
10) Watanabe to launch new party possibly on Aug. 8; Dozen or so 
 
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candidates to be endorsed 
 
YOMIURI (Page 4) (Abridged) 
August 6, 2009 
 
Former administrative reform minister Yoshimi Watanabe formally 
announced a plan yesterday to launch a new party called Minna to To 
(party for everyone) as early as Aug. 8. The envisaged new party 
will aim for three objectives -- breakaway from 
bureaucratic-controlled policymaking, regional autonomy, and 
livelihood-oriented policies - to bring about a change of government 
and political realignment. 
 
Asked by reporters about the significance of the new party in the 
city of Kitakata in Fukushima Prefecture yesterday, Watanabe said: 
"Our objective is a change of administration, which is the same as 
the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), but we are aiming at political 
realignment beyond that. We are not going to be a force 
supplementing the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP). The LDP relies 
heavily on bureaucrats and the DPJ on labor unions. We will be a 
true reform force." 
 
According to a person concerned, the new party will be composed of 
Watanabe, an independent of the Tochigi 3rd constituency; Kenji Eda 
of the Kanagawa 8th district, Koichi Yamauchi, a former LDP lawmaker 
of the Kanagawa 9th district; and Motoko Hirotsu, also a former LDP 
member of the proportional representative Kyushu bloc. Keiichiro 
Asao, a House of Councillors lawmaker who has been expelled from the 
DPJ, is also expected to join the new party to run for the Lower 
House Kanagawa 4th constituency. A Watanabe aide said: "We will be 
able to meet the requirements for a political party stipulated in 
the Public Offices Election Law. We are going to officially endorse 
a dozen or so individuals, including former lawmakers and first-time 
candidates, for the upcoming Lower House election." Watanabe has 
suggested cooperation with the DPJ as well. 
 
DEFENSE AND SECURITY ISSUES 
 
11) Futenma relocation: DPJ to review realignment plan, LDP sees no 
prospects for coordination with Okinawa 
 
YOMIURI (Page 3) (Full) 
August 6, 2009 
 
A new government, which will come into office after the upcoming 
general election for the now-dissolved House of Representatives, 
will need to reach an immediate resolution of the issue of 
relocating the U.S. Marine Corps' Futenma Air Station in Okinawa 
Prefecture. Japan and the United States have agreed to complete the 
planned relocation of Futenma airfield by 2014 in the process of 
realigning U.S. forces in Japan. 
 
The Democratic Party of Japan will set forth its stance of reviewing 
the realignment plan, claiming that it is questionable to go ahead 
with Futenma relocation as currently planned. "If everyone agrees, 
we will opt for relocation outside Okinawa Prefecture," DPJ 
President Hatoyama said in his address to local residents in Okinawa 
on July 19. 
 
The United States is strongly concerned about such remarks from DPJ 
leaders since the U.S. government preconditions Futenma relocation 
to Nago City on the realignment of U.S. forces in Japan, including a 
 
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plan to move Okinawa-based U.S. Marines to Guam. 
 
Meanwhile, the Liberal Democratic Party says the government will 
steadily implement the U.S. force realignment. For the relocation of 
Futenma airfield, however, the government needs Okinawa Prefecture's 
authorization for reclamation. In this regard, Okinawa Prefecture 
preconditions its authorization on the Futenma replacement 
facility's offshore move. The LDP government sees no prospects for 
coordination with the U.S. government and the Okinawa prefectural 
government. 
 
12) Komeito wants U.S. force realignment steadily implemented: 
manifesto 
 
YOMIURI (Page 2) (Abridged) 
August 6, 2009 
 
The New Komeito, in its manifesto, upholds "proactive international 
pacifism" in its manifesto as an ideal of its foreign policy. The 
party will try to develop Japan's foreign relations with an eye on 
reality. Its manifesto specifies its intention to maintain and 
develop favorable relations with the United States and "firmly 
maintain" the Japan-U.S. alliance. Along with this, it proposes 
pushing ahead with U.S. force realignment in a steady way. At the 
same time, it also advocates laying down ballistic missile defense 
shields in a steady way. 
 
The Japanese Communist Party's manifesto develops the party's 
previous positions, such as abrogating the Japan-U.S. alliance, 
establishing an equal-footing relationship with the United States, 
and removing U.S. military bases in Japan. It also proposes 
withdrawing the Maritime Self-Defense Force from its ongoing 
refueling mission in the Indian Ocean. Meanwhile, the JCP manifesto 
gives high marks to the U.S. President's Prague speech for its 
advocacy of nuclear elimination, saying it has "historic 
significance." 
 
The Social Democratic Party, in its manifesto, does not especially 
touch on the Japan-U.S. alliance. Concerning the planned realignment 
of U.S. forces in Japan, however, the SDP manifesto insists that the 
intergovernmental agreement between the two countries should be 
"rediscussed." It also refers to the issue of relocating the U.S. 
Marine Corps' Futenma Air Station, which is symbolic of the U.S. 
force realignment. In this regard, the SDP manifesto opposes Futenma 
airfield's closure and reversion, and also opposes its replacement 
facility's construction in Nago, Okinawa Prefecture. In addition, 
the party's manifesto refers to the planned move of U.S. Marines 
from Okinawa to Guam and insists on calling off the so-called "Guam 
relocation pact" that incorporates Japan's spending relevant to the 
Guam relocation. 
 
13) JINF evaluates political parties' manifestos on right to 
collective self-defense 
 
SANKEI (Page 5) (Full) 
August 6, 2009 
 
The Japan Institute for National Fundamentals (JINF), a 
private-sector think tank headed by Yoshiko Sakurai, held a meeting 
in Tokyo yesterday to evaluate the foreign and security policies 
that are specified in each political party's manifesto (campaign 
pledges) for the upcoming House of Representatives election. 
 
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President Sakurai said, "Both the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and 
the Democratic Party of Japan are offering rosy promises, and we 
must keep a watchful eye on them." Vice President Tadae Takubo 
noted, "The LDP has stopped short of touching upon exercising the 
right to collective self-defense." Planning Committee member Masato 
Ushio criticized the LDP, saying, "All the more because the party 
advocates Japan-U.S. relations on an equal footing, I wanted to see 
it clarify where it stands on the right to collective 
self-defense." 
 
ECONOMIC AFFAIRS 
 
14) DPJ plan to curb greenhouse gas emissions will cost each 
household additional burden of 360,000 yen: METI estimates 
 
SANKEI (Page 2) (Full) 
August 6, 2009 
 
The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) at a meeting of 
the supply-demand subcommittee of its resources and energy research 
council, an advisory organ reporting to the METI minister, held on 
August 5, released the estimation of the cost of the government's 
mid-term goal of cutting greenhouse gas emissions by 15%, compared 
with the 2005 level, by 2020. It reported that the government plan 
will cost each household additional 77,000 yen a year. The panel 
also presented the estimate that the Democratic Party of Japan's 
(DPJ) goal, which is stricter than that of the government, will lead 
to a 360,000 yen increase in the burden shared by each household. 
Behind the comparison of the two goals appears to be METI's desire 
to single out problems about the DPJ policy. This could likely 
become a major point of contention in the Lower House election. 
 
Commenting on the 77,000 yen increase in the financial burden, a 
member representing a consumer organization house said, "This is an 
awful figure that cannot be accepted by ordinary people." 
 
A breakdown of the increase in the burden shows roughly 40,000 yen 
due to a decrease in households' disposal income and about 30,000 
yen because of an increase in utility expenses as a result of an 
increased introduction of high-cost recyclable energy, such as solar 
energy generation. 
 
The panel report notes that in achieving the government goal, the 
nation as a whole will need a total of 49 trillion yen for the 
implementation of major policies alone, such as 12 trillion yen for 
the dissemination of green vehicles and 8 trillion yen for an 
expanded introduction of solar power generation. The estimation of 
the cost of the DPJ policies is even more shocking. 
 
The DPJ aims to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 25 percent in 
comparison with the 1990 level or 30 percent, compared with the 2005 
level, which is double the government's goal. A breakdown of the 
increase to be shouldered by household budgets shows a 220,000 yen 
drop in disposal income and a 140,000 yen increase in utility 
expenses. The report also pointed out that the DPJ proposal would 
also require cuts in industrial output through constrained 
industrial activities. 
 
METI Minister Nikai criticized the DPJ proposal as an impossible 
dream. According to a senior METI official, aides to Nikai urged 
that the comparison between the government goal and the DPJ goal 
should be revealed. 
 
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DPJ Secretary General Katsuya Okada at a meeting with the Japan 
Business Federation (Nippon Keidanren) on the 4th said, "Figures 
could change, depending on preconditions." The DPJ is bound to face 
the test of explaining the increase in the burden shared by 
households in the run-up to the Lower House election. 
 
15) DPJ plans to hold extraordinary Diet session and enact bill to 
set up national strategy bureau tasked with budget compilation 
 
YOMIURI (Page 1) (Full) 
August 6, 2009 
 
The Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) decided yesterday that if the 
party seized the reins of government in the upcoming House of 
Representatives election, the party would convene an extraordinary 
Diet session in October and try to enact a bill to set up a national 
strategy bureau under the prime minister in accordance with the 
pledge in its policy platform. The main opposition party also 
intends to submit a supplementary budget bill that would reduce the 
already adopted budget for fiscal 2009 by approximately 4 trillion 
yen. With the aim of compiling an extra budget bill and a budget 
bill for fiscal 2010 under the lead of politicians, the DPJ is 
willing to temporarily set up a "national strategy office" and other 
necessary bodies by government ordinances until the bill for the 
national strategy bureau is enacted. 
 
The DPJ plans to assign several politicians to the new bureau and 
have the party's Policy Research Council chairman head the bureau as 
well so that policy decisions can be centralized at the cabinet. The 
party is also looking into preparing a package bill for systemic 
reform related to policymaking, such as the creation of an 
administrative reform council to eliminate waste spending. 
 
The DPJ intends to also submit in the extraordinary session a bill 
to eradicate civil servants' amakudari (golden parachuting) 
practices, as well as related bills to secure the necessary funds 
for prefectural government to prepare for introducing in fiscal 2010 
the envisioned measures to offer a monthly child-raising allowance 
and eliminate public high school tuition fees. 
 
16) Government achieves goal of employing women for 30% of career 
administrative jobs in FY09 
 
TOKYO SHIMBUN (Page 3) (Full) 
August 6, 2009 
 
The Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications and the National 
Personnel Authority announced on August 5 that the ratio of women 
among applicants who successful passed the class-one civil service 
examination and who took up administrative jobs at the national 
government ministries and agencies in FY09, or the so-called "career 
bureaucrats, increased by 6.4 percent points over FY08 to 30.6 
percent. This is the first time for the ratio to go above 30 
percent. 
 
The government has achieved the goal set by a cabinet resolution in 
December 2005 to raise the ratio of women among newly hired career 
administrative officials to around 30 percent by FY1020. 
 
A total of 304 applicants have been hired for career administrative 
jobs in FY09, and 93 of them are women. By ministry or agency, the 
 
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National Personnel Authority has the highest ratio of women (75 
percent), followed by the Cabinet Office (54.5 percent) and the 
Environment Ministry (42.9 percent). On the other hand, the lowest 
ratios were marked by the Fair Trade Commission (14.3 percent) and 
the Board of Audit of Japan (20.0 percent). 
 
The ratio of women among all successful applicants who passed the 
class-one civil service examination, including for technical jobs, 
also increased by 4.1 percent points over FY08 to a record 25.8 
percent. 
 
On the other hand, the ratio of women among officials with the 
division chief rank or above in the ministries was 2.0 percent (plus 
0.1 point from previous year), and 1.1 percent (same as previous 
year) for senior officials with the rank of councilor or above as of 
January 2008. These ratios are still low. The government's goal to 
raise the ratio of women in division chief or above positions to 5 
percent by the end of FY2010 appears to be difficult to meet. 
 
ZUMWALT