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SUBJECT: JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 10/05/09 
 
Index: 
1) Top headlines 
2) Editorials 
3) Prime Minister's daily schedule (Nikkei) 
 
Futenma Relocation Issue 
4) State Minister for Okinawa Maehara says it is necessary to review 
plan to relocate Futenma facility to Henoko  (Asahi) 
5) Prefectural board of review recommends to Okinawa Governor that 
environmental investigation of site for new U.S. base redone 
(Akahata) 
6) State Minister for Okinawa Maehara says Futenma relocation should 
be reviewed by cabinet council  (Nikkei) 
7) Cabinet meeting does not reorient policy in the direction of 
relocating Futenma facility outside Okinawa  (Mainichi) 
 
Defense & Security 
8) Defense Ministry aide to visit U.S. next week  (Nikkei) 
 
Foreign Relations 
9) FM Okada asks China to engage to make a serious attempt to 
persuade North Korea on issues  (Nikkei) 
10) FM Okada expresses concern about different U.S. Govt. opinions 
regarding MSDF refueling mission  (Asahi) 
11) U.S. Ambassador to Japan Roos visits Hiroshima  (Mainichi) 
 
Opinion 
12) Yomiuri poll reveals 34 PERCENT  expect much from LDP President 
Tanigaki  (Yomiuri) 
13) Yomiuri poll discloses solid support for cabinet, 71 PERCENT 
(Yomiuri) 
14) Kyodo poll: 73 PERCENT  of DPJ members of Lower House wary of 
dispatching SDF overseas  (Tokyo Shimbun) 
 
Politics 
15) Health and Labor Minister to set up investigative team for 
missing pensions this week  (Sankei) 
 
Obituary 
16) Former Finance Minister Nakagawa dies at the age of 56  (Asahi) 
 
Articles: 
 
1) TOP HEADLINES 
 
Asahi: 
Half of post offices found to have had loose checks on postal 
discounts 
 
Mainichi: 
North Korean leader Kim greets Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao at 
airport; Kim told Hu Jintao's envoy in September, "Six-Party Talks 
are not functioning"; Kim seems eager to resume talks with U.S. at 
heart 
 
Yomiuri: 
Okinawa's Kerama island chain seeks to halve number of divers to 
protect reef starting next April 
 
Nikkei: 
Interim dividends at listed firms decrease 1 trillion yen 
 
 
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Sankei: 
Welfare minister decides to launch pension solution team before 
week's end possibly including Masuzoe advisers 
 
Tokyo Shimbun: 
Investigation squad of Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office 
questions Hatoyama's lawyer over his donation issue and obtains 
accounting books 
 
Akahata: 
Young construction workers from four prefectures call in Shibuya for 
improved working conditions and higher wages 
 
2) EDITORIALS 
 
Asahi: 
(1) Tomonoura ruling: Importance of landscape must be recognized 
nationally 
(2) Shift in U.S. policy expected to help break deadlock in Myanmar 
(Burma) 
 
Mainichi: 
(1) Free/low-price lodgings: Poverty business must not be allowed 
(2) 10 years after Tokaimura criticality accident 
 
Yomiuri: 
(1) Hatoyama administration must show clear path to 
decentralization 
(2) Ireland's decision to ratify Lisbon Treaty expected to give 
impetus to EU integration 
 
Nikkei: 
(1) Administrative wasteful spending must be eliminated with ban on 
amakudari 
(2) Japanese-model terrestrial digital broadcasting spreading in 
South America 
 
Sankei: 
(1) G-7 financial ministers and central governors meeting: Heavy 
responsibility must be recognized before discussing G-4 option 
(2) Earthquake exemption clause must be added to post-Kyoto 
framework 
 
Tokyo Shimbun: 
(1) Face up to declining birthrate 
 
Akahata: 
(1) Tax reform: Consumption tax must be lowered to support common 
people 
 
3) Prime Minister's Official Residence (Kantei) 
 
Prime Minister's schedule, October 4 
 
NIKKEI (Page 2) (Full) 
October 5, 2009 
 
Spent the morning at his private residence. 
14:56 Met Tokyo Governor Ishihara. 
 
4) Futenma relocation to Henoko needs review: Maehara 
 
 
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ASAHI (Page 2) (Abridged) 
October 4, 2009 
 
State Minister for Okinawa Seiji Maehara indicated yesterday that 
the government should look for an alternative site as soon as 
possible for the currently planned relocation of the U.S. Marine 
Corps' Futenma Air Station in Ginowan, Okinawa Prefecture, to Henoko 
in the prefecture's northern coastal city of Nago since the 
possibility of implementing the existing plan is low. "It (Futenma 
relocation) has taken too much time," Maehara said. "We should 
reconsider a new relocation site under the Hatoyama government," he 
added, "and then we should go ahead with it." However, Maehara 
avoided saying whether the new relocation site should be within or 
outside Okinawa Prefecture. "The foreign minister and the defense 
minister are discussing this matter," he said instead. 
 
5) Okinawa prefectural council's report to governor calls for 
reinvestigating environmental impact on site for Futenma replacement 
facility 
 
AKAHATA (Top play) (Excerpts) 
October 3, 2009 
 
Okinawa Prefecture's Environmental Assessment Council yesterday 
submitted to Okinawa Governor Hirokazu Nakaima a report with 
recommendations on the document presented by the Defense Ministry 
concerning procedures for conducting the environmental impact 
assessment of the site in the Henoko district, Nago City, for 
constructing an alternative facility of the U.S. Marine Corps' 
Futenma Air Station. The report by the council, chaired by Masamitsu 
Tsukayama, suggests that 412 cases in 59 items be reinvestigated in 
effect. The report also notes that if it is impossible to minimize 
the negative impact, every possibility should be looked into, 
including a cancellation of the project. 
 
In response to a request by the governor this June, the council held 
eight meetings and conducted two local investigations. 
 
In replying to questions from reporters, Tsukayama said: 
 
"The document produced by the organization placing the order is 
extensive at 5,000 pages, but it is considered insufficient in view 
of scientific grounds, such as predictions and assessment. We think 
it is necessary to carry out another investigation in effect." 
 
The report points out that the site for the new base is categorized 
as an area of sea that requires the strict preservation of the 
natural environment under the prefecture's environment-protection 
guidelines. From this point of view, the report affirms that the 
construction project will have a great impact on the environment," 
rejecting the Okinawa Defense Bureau's view that "there will be 
little impact." 
 
The report with recommendations notes that (the Okinawa Defense 
Bureau) produced the document without fully responding to the 
governor's advice, as seen from the fact that no survey on dugongs 
was conducted for several years. The report further says that the 
document "is insufficient in terms of analysis of the investigation 
results, predictions, and assessments" regarding the environmental 
impact of reclamation and the construction of such facilities as a 
V-shaped pair of runways. 
 
 
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The report then calls for a reinvestigation in effect, emphasizing 
the need for "more accurate predictions and an assessment with 
grounds." The document from the Okinawa Defense Bureau noted that 
"the organization placing the order can avoid or minimize the 
environmental impact by taking available measures. But on this 
point, as well, the report notes: "In the case it is impossible to 
minimize the impact, the prefectural government should look into 
every possibility, including a cancellation of or changes in the 
project, including its site and scale." 
 
6) State Minister for Okinawa Maehara underlines need for concerned 
ministers to reexamine Futenma relocation plan 
 
NIKKEI (Page 2) (Full) 
October 5, 2009 
 
State Minister for Okinawa and Northern Territories Seiji Maehara 
held a press conference in the city of Naha on Oct. 4. Referring to 
the planned relocation of the U.S. Marine Corps' Futenma Air Station 
(in Ginowan, Okinawa Prefecture) to the coastal area of Camp Schwab 
(in Nago in the prefecture), Maehara said: "I have said that (the 
relocation plan) needs to be reexamined, and that's how I feel. If I 
am asked for my opinion, I will say so." Maehara thus indicated that 
he will refer to the need to review (the relocation plan) in future 
talks among the four concerned cabinet ministers, including Foreign 
Minister Katsuya Okada. 
 
"I wonder if the relocation will really move forward," Maehara said 
to the press corps after touring Futenma Air Station on Oct. 3. "It 
is necessary to look into a new relocation site under the Hatoyama 
administration." 
 
7) Four ministers fail to come up with new policy direction on 
Futenma relocation 
 
MAINICHI (Page 25) (Full) 
October 3, 2009 
 
Shinichiro Nishida, Yasushi Sengoku 
 
Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirofumi Hirano held a meeting with Foreign 
Minister Katsuya Okada, Defense Minister Toshimi Kitazawa, and 
Minister for Okinawa and Northern Territories Affairs Seiji Maehara 
at the Prime Minister's Official Residence (Kantei) on October 2 to 
discuss the plan to relocate the U.S. forces' Futenma Air Station 
(in Ginowan City, Okinawa) to the coastal area of Camp Schwab (in 
Nago City, Okinawa). However, they failed to come up with a policy 
direction regarding whether the plan will be reviewed to facilitate 
Futenma's relocation out of Okinawa in accordance with the position 
of the Democratic Party of Japan. 
 
U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates is scheduled to visit Japan 
in late October, while President Barack Obama is also visiting in 
November. Hirano said at an interview with Mainichi Shimbun on 
October 2 that "we need to have a comprehensive view" ahead of the 
President's visit to Japan. However, a senior Ministry of Foreign 
Affairs (MOFA) official pointed out that, "They have not agreed on 
the timing or the schedule." The government has not even drawn up 
its strategy for negotiations with the U.S. 
 
Kitazawa appeared to be anxious at the meeting on October 2, saying: 
"We don't have time. Let's exchange information frequently." With 
 
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regard to his statement during his visit to Okinawa on September 26 
that "relocation out of Okinawa or out of Japan would be extremely 
difficult," Kitazawa explained that, "We have not come up with a 
policy direction." 
 
October 13 is the deadline for Okinawa Governor Hirokazu Nakaima, 
who approves of the current relocation plan, to submit his opinion 
on the preparatory documents for environmental assessment (at the 
proposed Futenma relocation site). If the government does not come 
up with a position, the governor will be forced to make a decision 
while the administration's position is still unclear. 
 
October 15 is also the deadline for revising the budget requests 
relating to Futenma relocation. The Liberal Democratic Party 
(LDP)-New Komeito administration made a "provisional allocation" of 
some 29 billion yen for this purpose, which is on par with the 
previous fiscal year. Hirano has announced in a news conference on 
October 2 that the Futenma Relocation Council, which was set up by 
the LDP-New Komeito administration as a venue for consultations 
between the Tokyo government and the local governments, will be 
reviewed. If the "provisional allocation" in the budget requests is 
simply carried over, the new administration's decision-making 
ability will be questioned. However, Okada, who is positive about 
reviewing the current relocation plan, said to reporters after the 
ministers' meeting, "We just need to make a final decision by the 
time (the budget formulation) is finalized (toward the end of 
2009)," already indicating an intention to defer the issue. 
 
8) Parliamentary defense secretary to visit U.S. next week 
 
NIKKEI (Page 2) (Full) 
October 3, 2009 
 
It has been decided that Parliamentary Defense Secretary Akihisa 
Nagashima will visit the United States in the middle of next week. 
He is expected to hold talks with Assistant Secretary of State Kurt 
Campbell and persons connected with the Department of Defense in 
Washington D.C. The purpose of the visit is to gauge the U.S. 
government's views on the realignment of U.S. forces in Japan and 
other matters ahead of a visit to Japan by Defense Secretary Robert 
Gates. 
 
9) Okada: "I hope China will make a serious effort to persuade North 
Korea" 
 
NIKKEI (Page 2) (Full) 
October 5, 2009 
 
In a press conference in Yokkaichi City, Mie Prefecture, yesterday, 
Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada spoke of Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao's 
visit to North Korea: "I expect some progress will be made on the 
issues of North Korea's nuclear development program and its past 
abductions of Japanese nationals. I hope China, which has the 
greatest influence over North Korea, will make a serious effort to 
persuade the North (to address these issues)." 
 
10) Okada expresses concern about gap in views within U.S. 
government over MSDF's refueling mission 
 
YOMIURI (Page 4) (Full) 
October 4, 2009 
 
 
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Risa Kato, Siem Reap 
 
Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada held informal talks with the 
traveling press corps in Siem Reap in Cambodia, where he was 
visiting, on the night of Oct. 3. Okada expressed concern about a 
gap in views within the U.S. government about the Democratic Party 
of Japan's policy on the handling of the Maritime Self-Defense 
Force's refueling mission in the Indian Ocean. "There is a mood in 
the U.S. State Department that (even if (the refueling mission) is 
terminated), it will accept (civilian aid to Afghanistan) if that is 
better than (the refueling mission)," Okada said. "But the Defense 
Department probably wants (Japan) to dispatch (SDF personnel) in 
uniform. The question is to what extent we should give consideration 
to such an idea." 
 
11) Ambassador Roos visits Hiroshima, will convey experience to 
President Obama 
 
MAINICHI (Page 3) (Full) 
October 5, 2009 
 
Kensuke Yaoi 
 
U.S. Ambassador to Japan John Roos visited the Peace Memorial Park 
in Hiroshima City with his family on October 4 and laid a wreath at 
the Monument for Atomic Bomb Victims. He also visited the Hiroshima 
Peace Memorial Museum, where he said he was "deeply touched." In the 
museum's visitors' book he wrote, "Hiroshima powerfully impresses 
upon visitors the destructiveness of nuclear weapons. It makes us 
strongly feel the importance of seeking the peace and stability of a 
world without nuclear weapons." According to Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba, 
who escorted the Ambassador during part of his visit, Roos said on 
the way to the Peace Memorial Park, "I will convey my experience (on 
October 4) to President Obama". 
 
Roos and his son David, 17, presented origami cranes when visiting 
the Children's Peace Monument, which is modeled after Sadako Sasaki, 
who was exposed to the atomic bombing at the age of two and died of 
leukemia at the age of 12. He also spent about an hour at the Peace 
Memorial Museum. Saying he wanted to see the museum by himself, he 
toured the facility unaccompanied by museum officials providing 
explanations of exhibits. Roos is the eighth U.S. ambassador to 
visit the museum, but reportedly it is unusual for an ambassador be 
unaccompanied by a guide. 
 
"He understood the experience of the atomic bombing victims and 
tried to understand their feelings along with his family" said Mayor 
Akiba. "It was very moving." 
 
12) Poll: 34 PERCENT  pin hopes on LDP President Tanigaki 
 
YOMIURI (Page 2) (Full) 
October 5, 2009 
 
In a telephone-based nationwide public opinion survey conducted by 
the Yomiuri Shimbun on Oct. 2-4, only 34 PERCENT  of respondents 
answered "yes" when asked if they had expectations for Liberal 
Democratic Party President Tanigaki, with 57 PERCENT  saying "no." 
Respondents were also asked if they thought the LDP would be able to 
return to power. In response to this question, 50 PERCENT  answered 
"yes," down from 66 PERCENT  in a previous survey conducted Aug. 
31-Sept. 1 right after the House of Representatives election. Public 
 
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opinion was severe on the LDP's desire to win back the reins of 
government under Tanigaki. 
 
Among LDP supporters, "yes" accounted for 58 PERCENT , with "no" 
reaching 36 PERCENT . The proportion of those thinking the LDP will 
be able to take office again among LDP supporters was 80 PERCENT 
right after the House of Representatives election. In the latest 
survey, however, the figure was 71 PERCENT . 
 
13) Poll: Cabinet support steady at 71 PERCENT 
 
YOMIURI (Page 1) (Abridged) 
October 5, 2009 
 
The public approval rating for the Hatoyama cabinet was 71 PERCENT 
in a telephone-based nationwide public opinion survey conducted by 
the Yomiuri Shimbun on Oct. 2-4. The disapproval rating was 21 
PERCENT . The Hatoyama cabinet's support rate dropped from the 75 
PERCENT  rating marked in the last survey conducted right after its 
inauguration, but it still remains high. 
 
In the breakdown of public support for political parties, the ruling 
Democratic Party of Japan stood at 47 PERCENT  (51 PERCENT  in the 
last survey). The opposition Liberal Democratic Party was at 17 
PERCENT  (19 PERCENT  in the last survey), dropping to its lowest 
level on a par with the rating it received right after the 1998 
House of Councillors election that ended in its crushing defeat 
under the Hashimoto cabinet. 
 
In the survey, respondents were asked if they approved of the 
tripartite coalition framework of the DPJ, the Social Democratic 
Party, and the People's New Party. To this question, "no" increased 
to 50 PERCENT  (39 PERCENT  in the last survey), with "yes" at 39 
PERCENT  (49 PERCENT  in the last survey). As seen from these 
figures, the proportion of negative answers topped that of 
affirmative ones. This appears to reflect the confusion that arose 
over such issues as a loan-repayment moratorium system, which 
Financial Services Minister Kamei, who is PNP president, has 
announced as a policy measure for small businesses. 
 
Respondents were also asked about the Hatoyama cabinet's plan to end 
the Maritime Self-Defense Force's refueling mission in the Indian 
Ocean. In response to this question, affirmative answers accounted 
for 48 PERCENT  (44 PERCENT  in the last survey), with negative ones 
accounting for 37 PERCENT  (39 PERCENT  in the last survey). When 
asked if they approved of the Hatoyama cabinet's policy of reducing 
Japan's greenhouse gas emissions by 25 PERCENT , "yes" accounted for 
75 PERCENT  (74 PERCENT  in the last survey). 
 
14) 73 PERCENT  of DPJ Lower House lawmakers cautious about SDF's 
overseas missions 
 
TOKYO SHIMBUN (Page 1) (Abridged) 
October 5, 2009 
 
Kyodo News recently conducted a questionnaire survey of 308 
Democratic Party of Japan lawmakers elected in the recent House of 
Representatives election. The survey was carried out in mid- and 
late September, and answers were received from 210 LDP lawmakers by 
Oct. 4. In the survey, a total of 73.3 PERCENT  were cautious about 
sending the Self-Defense Forces for overseas missions, maintaining 
that Japan should go no further than to engage the SDF in United 
 
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Nations peacekeeping operations or otherwise in humanitarian 
assistance activities like international emergency relief 
operations. Those in favor of sending the SDF to multinational 
forces for operations including rear support accounted for 12.4 
PERCENT . Meanwhile, 1.0 PERCENT  said Japan should not send the SDF 
overseas. 
 
15) Pension issue settlement team to be launched before end of week: 
Advisers to former welfare minister Masuzoe may be tapped 
 
SANKEI (Top play) (Excerpts) 
October 5, 2009 
 
Health, Labor and Welfare Minister Akira Nagatsuma on October 4 
decided to launch a pension premium payment record issue settlement 
team (tentative name) consisting of by experts from the private 
sector as early as this week. The envisaged team will study specific 
measures to relieve more victims whose pension accounts have become 
unidentifiable. It will also begin to spearhead a fact-finding 
survey of pension premium payments records that are difficult to 
identify. The Social Insurance Agency (SIA) has thus far been 
reluctant to launch such a survey. The team will consist of about 
ten members. Final coordination of views is now underway with the 
possibility appointing Hakodate University Guest Professor Motoshi 
Isomura and journalist Tatsuya Iwaseas members. Both were members of 
the Pension Premium Records Issue Working Committee under the direct 
control of former health, labor and welfare minister Yoichi 
Masuzoe. 
 
The Democratic Party of Japan's policy manifesto for the Lower House 
election stipulates fiscal 2010 and 2012 as an intensive period for 
dealing with the pension record issue. (The cost for the work is 
estimated at approximately 200 billion yen.) Nagatsuma wants to 
materialize the measures he has worked on by the end of fiscal 2012 
with the envisaged team playing a leading role. Since Isomura and 
Iwase, who have been informally appointed as members, dealt with the 
pension record issue at the working committee for nearly two years, 
Nagatsuma has determined that they would be indispensable for the 
swift relief of victims and the uncovering of the problems. 
 
Nagatsuma is also calling for the cross-checking of pension records 
as a national project, by intensively applying personnel, goods, and 
money to the comparison of the original paperwork for 850 accounts 
with on-line premium payment records. The settlement team will also 
study a personnel arrangement for the cross-checking of pension 
premium payment records after the Social Insurance Agency is 
reorganized into a Japan pension agency in January next year. 
 
16) Former finance minister Nakagawa found dead in bedroom at his 
residence 
 
ASAHI (Page 1) (Excerpts) 
October 5, 2009 
 
The wife (50) of former finance minister and state minister for 
financial affairs Shoichi Nakagawa (56) discovered her husband lying 
unconscious at his residence (5-chome, Shimouma, Setagaya Ward, 
Tokyo) at around 8:18 a.m. on October 4, and called an ambulance. 
According to the police, he was found dead lying face-down on a bed 
in a bedroom on the second floor of his home. He had no visible 
external injuries. Since the cause of his death could not be 
determined by the administrative autopsy, the police plan to conduct 
 
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a pathological examination. The Setagaya police view that according 
to the situation of his body and the room, there is a slim chance of 
any foul play being involved or of his committing suicide. Since a 
family member provided an account that he had been taking sleeping 
pills, the police plan to investigate the causal relationship. 
 
He took office as finance minister and state minister for financial 
affairs of the Aso cabinet after contributing to the election of 
Taro Aso to the president of the Liberal Democratic Party. Attaching 
importance to stimulus measures to address the global financial 
crisis, Nakagawa spearheaded the cabinet's economic policy, 
including the fixed-amount cash handouts. He also boosted his 
presence by calling for more public spending at various 
international conferences. He appeared incoherent and slurred his 
speech at a news conference after the Group of Seven meeting of 
finance ministers and central bank governors in Rome in February 
this year. Facing strong criticism, he stepped down from his post. 
He lost the general election in August to a Democratic Party of 
Japan candidate. He lost his seat in the Lower House as he was also 
unable to secure a seat in the proportional representation system. 
 
ROOS