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10TOKYO9 2010-01-04 08:01 2011-08-30 01:44 UNCLASSIFIED Embassy Tokyo
VZCZCXRO9977
PP RUEHFK RUEHKSO RUEHNAG RUEHNH
DE RUEHKO #0009/01 0040801
ZNR UUUUU ZZH
P 040801Z JAN 10
FM AMEMBASSY TOKYO
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 8504
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RUEAWJA/USDOJ WASHDC PRIORITY
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RHHMUNA/HQ USPACOM HONOLULU HI
RHHMHBA/COMPACFLT PEARL HARBOR HI
RHMFIUU/HQ PACAF HICKAM AFB HI//CC/PA//
RHMFIUU/USFJ //J5/JO21//
RUYNAAC/COMNAVFORJAPAN YOKOSUKA JA
RUAYJAA/CTF 72
RUEHNH/AMCONSUL NAHA 0492
RUEHFK/AMCONSUL FUKUOKA 8146
RUEHOK/AMCONSUL OSAKA KOBE 1959
RUEHNAG/AMCONSUL NAGOYA 5258
RUEHKSO/AMCONSUL SAPPORO 8647
RUEHBJ/AMEMBASSY BEIJING 2492
RUEHUL/AMEMBASSY SEOUL 9157
RUCNDT/USMISSION USUN NEW YORK 8581
UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 07 TOKYO 000009 
 
SIPDIS 
 
DEPT FOR E, P, EB, EAP/J, EAP/P, EAP/PD, PA; 
WHITE HOUSE/NSC/NEC; JUSTICE FOR STU CHEMTOB IN ANTI-TRUST DIVISION; 
TREASURY/OASIA/IMI/JAPAN; DEPT PASS USTR/PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICE; 
SECDEF FOR JCS-J-5/JAPAN, 
DASD/ISA/EAPR/JAPAN; DEPT PASS ELECTRONICALLY TO USDA 
FAS/ITP FOR SCHROETER; PACOM HONOLULU FOR PUBLIC DIPLOMACY ADVISOR; 
CINCPAC FLT/PA/ COMNAVFORJAPAN/PA. 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA
 
SUBJECT:  DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 01/04/10 
 
INDEX: 
(1) PM Hatoyama pledges to resolve Futenma relocation issue within 
several months at New Year press conference (Nikkei) 
 
(2) Mayor of Omura City, Nagasaki, willing to consider accepting 
Futenma relocation if asked (Ryukyu Shimpo) 
 
(3) 50th anniversary of revision of Japan-U.S. Security Treaty: 
Potential danger of Japan-U.S. alliance losing substance (Sankei) 
 
(4) Hatoyama administration lacks resolve to pursue "equal 
Japan-U.S. relationship," review of security treaty (Nikkei) 
 
(5) Hatoyama Kantei with no political calendar (Nikkei) 
 
(6) Chinese ambassador to Japan Cui Tiankai to be named vice foreign 
minister in charge of Six-Party Talks (Sankei) 
 
ARTICLES: 
 
(1) PM Hatoyama pledges to resolve Futenma relocation issue within 
several months at New Year press conference 
 
NIKKEI ONLINE (Full) 
10:31, January 4, 2010 
 
Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama commented on the issue of the 
relocation of the U.S. forces' Futenma Air Station (in Ginowan City, 
Okinawa) at his New Year press conference on the morning of Jan. 4. 
He said: "I have no intention to waste time aimlessly. I promise to 
set a firm deadline and come up with a conclusion acceptable both to 
the people of Okinawa and to the United States within several 
months." With regard to the Japan-U.S. relationship, he stated: "We 
will build a relationship under which both sides enhance their 
mutual trust while saying what they need to say." 
 
Hatoyama expressed his view on foreign policy in general by saying: 
"While regarding the Japan-U.S. alliance as the cornerstone, we 
would like to develop the concept of the East Asian community in the 
coming year." 
 
(2) Mayor of Omura City, Nagasaki, willing to consider accepting 
Futenma relocation if asked 
 
RYUKYU SHIMPO (Page 1) (Full) 
January 3, 2010 
 
Ikue Nakaima 
 
In connection with the issue of the relocation of the U.S. forces' 
Futenma Air Station, Mayor Takashi Matsumoto of Omura City, Nagasaki 
Prefecture stated at an interview on Dec. 31: "I will not turn a 
deaf ear to the issue of Futenma relocation right from the start." 
During an interview with Ryukyu Shimpo, he indicated that if asked 
by the government, he would consider the relocation of the Futenma 
base to the Maritime Self-Defense Force (MSDF) base in Omura City. 
 
A number of weekly magazines have reported that the government has 
begun to consider the Omura air base as a possible Futenma 
relocation site. Commenting on such reports, Matusmoto said: "This 
came as a complete surprise. Even after the media reporting, we have 
not received any explanation from the government. I checked with 
 
TOKYO 00000009  002 OF 007 
 
 
Diet members, but they denied such reports, saying they have not 
heard anything to that effect." He indicated that the city is taking 
a wait-and-see attitude for now. 
 
The MSDF's Omura air base is located at the land-based portion of 
the Nagasaki Airport, which is an offshore facility. Helicopters 
carried on MSDF destroyers are based there and it is only 70 
kilometers from the U.S. forces' Sasebo base. 
 
Matsumoto said: "The U.S. military bases are concentrated 
excessively in Okinawa. Personally, I think the excessive burden on 
Okinawa should be dispersed to the Japanese mainland," indicating 
his understanding for the need to reduce the burden on Okinawa. 
 
However, with regard to the possibility of Omura City volunteering 
to serve as Futenma's relocation site, Matsumoto indicated a 
cautious stance. He said: "This has not been discussed at the city 
assembly or the city government. While personally, I think we should 
all share Okinawa's burden, the leader's opinion is one aspect, but 
there are also public opinion and the city assembly. The city is not 
in a position to present its view right now." 
 
(3) 50th anniversary of revision of Japan-U.S. Security Treaty: 
Potential danger of Japan-U.S. alliance losing substance 
 
SANKEI (Page 11) (Full) 
January 1, 2010 
 
Takashi Arimoto, Washington 
 
The meaning of the Japan-U.S. Security Treaty will likely be tested 
this year, which will mark the 50th anniversary of the revision of 
the Japan-U.S. Security Treaty following a fierce anti-security 
treaty struggle. Issuing a new security declaration advocating the 
building of a new Japan-U.S. relationship of cooperation, coinciding 
with U.S. President Obama's visit to Japan in November, will lead to 
a strengthened alliance. However, since there are no prospects for 
settling the U.S. Marine Corps' Futenma airfield (Ginowan City, 
Okinawa Prefecture) relocation issue, the mood for issuing a new 
declaration is not intensifying at all. Depending on the Hatoyama 
administration's approach, the bilateral alliance could actually be 
in danger of losing its substance instead of being deepened. 
 
Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama has expressed his intention to decide 
on a relocation site for the Futenma airfield by May. He will 
apparently aim at directly conveying his thinking by holding talks 
with President Obama on the sidelines of the Global Nuclear Security 
Summit or the G-8 Summit to be held in Canada in June this year. 
 
The U.S. government has been calling on the Japanese side to accept 
the present plan to relocate the Futenma facilities to the coastal 
area of Camp Schwab in Nago City, Okinawa Prefecture. Provided that 
the Japanese side seeks to change the existing plan, the U.S. will 
be pressed to decide whether to turn it down or accept it. 
 
Larry Nicksh, an expert at the U.S. Congressional Research Service, 
stressed: "In view of the significance of the Japan-U.S. alliance 
relationship, the Futenma relocation issue should not be a matter of 
winning or losing. It is necessary for the U.S., if the present plan 
is accepted, or the Japanese side, if a new relocation site is 
adopted, to compensate the host municipality in some way or other." 
 
 
TOKYO 00000009  003 OF 007 
 
 
The U.S. side is becoming increasingly skeptical about Prime 
Minister Hatoyama, who is continuing to waver over the Futenma 
issue, with the Washington Post dubbing him a "mercurial leader." 
 
Stanford University Professor Emeritus Daniel Okimoto, who is close 
to U.S. Ambassador to Japan Roos, expressed concern by saying: 
"While it is desirable for the U.S. and Japan to reaffirm the 
importance of the bilateral alliance and jointly consider bilateral 
security arrangements for the next quarter century in view of the 
50th anniversary, the relationship of trust is being gradually 
undermined (over the Futenma issue)." 
 
At the G-8 Summit last November, the prime minister proposed to the 
President the launching of government-to-government talks with the 
aim of deepening the Japan-U.S. alliance in the run-up to the 50th 
anniversary. If a new security declaration is to be drafted, it will 
be done when the President visits Japan to attend the Asia-Pacific 
Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum meeting. However, no prospects for 
launching such talks are in sight. 
 
Sheila Smith, a senior fellow for the Council on Foreign Relations, 
who is close to the Obama administration, insisted that (the two 
countries) should not insist on issuing a new declaration, saying, 
as if gauging the delicate atmosphere between Japan and the U.S., 
"The 50th anniversary does not signify that a new document is 
needed." 
 
The Hatoyama administration advocates an equal Japan-U.S. alliance. 
However, there appears to be no indication that it is aiming to 
change the unilateral nature of the Japan-U.S. Security Treaty in 
which Japan has no obligation to defend the U.S. Senior research 
fellow James Przystup at the Institute for National Strategic 
Studies (INSS) sounded a note of warning against Japan's passive 
stance, saying: "It is possible to continue with the present 
Japan-U.S. security. However, that would be far removed from the 
ideal of strengthening the alliance." 
 
(4) Hatoyama administration lacks resolve to pursue "equal 
Japan-U.S. relationship," review of security treaty 
 
NIKKEI (Page 2) (Full) 
January 3, 2010 
 
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) was all quiet on the 
afternoon of Dec. 29, but Japanese Ambassador to the U.S. Ichiro 
Fujisaki paid a visit to Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada at the 
minister's office. Fujisaki told Okada that "the U.S. side's 
response is very harsh" and conveyed the U.S. position that it will 
not accept any relocation site for the U.S. forces' Futenma Air 
Station other than the coastal area of Camp Schwab, as previously 
agreed upon by the two countries. Okada nodded. 
 
Eight days earlier, on the day U.S. government offices were shut 
down due to the snow storm, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton 
had summoned Fujisaki. The purpose of the meeting was to protest 
Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama's statement after his meeting with 
Secretary Clinton in Copenhagen that the U.S. side "indicated its 
understanding" of efforts to select a new relocation site. 
 
Gap on Futenma issue 
 
Japan has notified the U.S. it will reach a solution on the Futenma 
 
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issue by May, but the U.S. side is not satisfied. The existing 
relocation plan took Japan and the U.S.10 years to negotiate, and it 
has been accepted by Okinawa. Yet, the Japanese government 
overturned this agreement. 
 
The U.S. side, which took an easygoing attitude at first, is now 
distrustful of Japan. President Barack Obama refused to meet 
Hatoyama in Copenhagen. The U.S. side has also been unenthusiastic 
about a visit by Okada in mid-January, which he has been 
coordinating for. The rift between Japan and the U.S. has become 
evident 100 days after the inauguration of the Democratic Party of 
Japan (DPJ) administration. 
 
There had been signs of what was coming. When the DPJ included in 
its manifesto (campaign pledges) for the House of Representatives 
election last year the pursuit of a "close and equal Japan-U.S. 
relationship," a senior MOFA official was concerned that "this 
resembles the old Japan Socialist Party, which negated the 
Japan-U.S. security treaty." After the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the 
Japanese government has promoted cooperation with the U.S. on such 
issues as counterterrorism and North Korea under the slogan of "a 
Japan-U.S. alliance in the world." This policy will face a 
turnabout. 
 
Hatoyama harbors a special affection for the word "equal." His 
grandfather, former Prime Minister Ichiro Hatoyama, once advocated 
independent defense in opposition to former Prime Minister Shigeru 
Yoshida, who signed the security treaty. In 1996, when Hatoyama, who 
often boasts, "I have my grandfather's DNA in me," was preparing to 
launch the DPJ, he advocated a "Japan-U.S. alliance without the 
permanent stationing of troops." 
 
After becoming prime minister, Hatoyama took one step further at the 
Japan-China-ROK summit in Beijing last October. He said: "(Japan) 
has tended to be too reliant on the U.S." This reflected the true 
intent of Hatoyama, who has criticized the Liberal Democratic Party 
administration for being subservient to the U.S. in foreign policy. 
 
However, does Hatoyama have a strategy that includes a review of the 
Japan-U.S. security treaty? The treaty stipulates that the U.S. has 
the obligation to defend Japan in a contingency, while Japan has to 
provide military bases for the U.S. forces in the country. If this 
balance is disrupted, Japan's defense cost will skyrocket and a 
debate on constitutional revision will be necessary. 
 
A close aide of the Prime Minister states unequivocally: "Hatoyama 
lacks the resolve to review the Japan-U.S. security treaty." 
National Defense College Professor Emeritus Masamori Sase notes: 
"There are four levels in the concept of 'equality': actual 
capability, qualification, pride, and state of mind, and the DPJ 
administration's idea of equality is at the level of state of mind. 
This is unmistakably self-centered." 
 
The Hatoyama administration's view of China is also convoluted. DPJ 
Secretary General Ichiro Ozawa visited China in December with a 
delegation consisting of some 140 Diet members and met President Hu 
Jintao. The government approved a meeting of Xi Jinping, regarded as 
the likely successor to Hu, with the Emperor as an "exception." 
However, it has shown no signs of taking action on pending issues 
such as the gas fields in East China Sea. 
 
China increasing its influence 
 
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The concept of an East Asian community proposed by Hatoyama at his 
first meeting with Hu is also left hanging. China remains cautious: 
"We must take a long-term point of view," according to Xi. A Chinese 
government source says that "(China) is trying to determine if the 
concept is limited to the Hatoyama administration and if this will 
continue under a DPJ administration." 
 
A senior Ministry of Defense official points out that "if there is a 
decline in the U.S. forces' deterrence in the area around Japan, 
China will be the one to take advantage of this vacuum." After the 
U.S. forces completed their withdrawal from the Philippines in 1994, 
China has increased its influence in the South China Sea. 
 
The Japan-U.S. discord over the Futenma issue also has the potential 
of tipping the military balance in East Asia. This year marks the 
50th anniversary of the revision of the Japan-U.S. security treaty. 
China and the other Asian countries are closely watching where an 
"equal Japan-U.S. relationship" is heading. 
 
(5) Hatoyama Kantei with no political calendar 
 
NIKKEI (Page 2) (Full) 
January 2, 2010 
 
An online search of all the Nikkei articles for last year containing 
the words "Yukio Hatoyama" produced 2,700 articles. This figure was 
followed by about 2,200 articles on Taro Aso, who held the post of 
prime minister until September of last year. 
 
The number of articles related to Hatoyama shows that the hero in 
Japanese politics last year was Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama, who 
realized a full-scale change of government. The number of articles 
on Ichiro Ozawa was about 1,300, which came in third. 
 
The Hatoyama administration was launched after the Democratic Party 
of Japan won an overwhelming victory in the August House of 
Representatives election, but the popularity of the administration 
is already on the decline, mainly because Hatoyama has failed to 
exert leadership. 
 
A lawmaker who worked with Hatoyama in the now defunct New Party 
Sakigake (Pioneers) made the following comment: 
 
"Mr. Hatoyama persistently acted in accordance with circumstances 
(when he was a member of Sakigake). Although he can deal with 
situations, he cannot set up situations. It is like a surfer being 
unable to create waves. If this is his political style, he should 
change his style, but if this is part of his personality, there's no 
hope." 
 
The chaotic situation over the issue of relocating the U.S. Marine 
Corps' Futenma Air Station in Okinawa was caused by the prime 
minister's flip-flops. He said, "An agreement among the ruling 
parties in disregard of the intentions of the U.S. is 
inconceivable," but the ruling parties have started working-level 
talks on new relocation sites for the Futenma facility. As long as 
the prime minister remains unable to issue specific instructions, 
the talks may never reach a conclusion. 
 
Power relationships in the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) have made 
it difficult for Hatoyama to make a decision. In the process of 
 
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compiling the fiscal 2010 budget, Secretary General Ichiro Ozawa 
succeeded in dealing with thorny issues by presenting requests that 
are essential for the party, thus playing up his political presence. 
It is becoming clearer that the Hatoyama cabinet cannot decide on 
anything without listening to Ozawa's views. 
 
The DPJ proposed unifying the policymaking process under the 
leadership of the cabinet in its policy manifesto for the previous 
House of Representatives election. Since the most powerful figure is 
outside the cabinet, however, this pledge has become has become a 
dead letter. To implement the campaign pledge, it will probably be 
necessary for the administration to have Ozawa join the cabinet as a 
minister without a portfolio while keeping him in the post of 
secretary general. 
 
Ozawa, who is fully responsible for developing election strategies 
and managing Diet affairs, has also taken the initiative in 
developing the political schedule. 
 
The biggest event in domestic politics this year will be the House 
of Councillors election in the summer. The election is likely to be 
held on Sunday in July -- the 11th, the 18th, or the 25th. By 
counting backwards from the voting date, a decision will be made on 
when to convene the next regular Diet session. This matter is also 
in Ozawa's hands. 
 
Former Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita, who was well versed in 
political agendas, reportedly handled the Takeshita calendar. In the 
current political world, only Ozawa is capable of drawing up the 
political calendar. The head of the Prime Minister's Official 
Residence (Kantei) remains unable to draw up a schedule and appears 
unlikely even to be shown the Ozawa calendar readily. 
 
A political calendar that is carefully worked out tends to be upset 
by politics-and-money scandals. Prime Minister Takeshita was driven 
to resignation after a regular Diet session fell into chaos over the 
Recruit Corp.'s political bribery case. 
 
Later last year, the first trial was held for Ozawa's first 
state-funded secretary, who was arrested in violation of the 
Political Funds Control Law, and the prime minister's former first 
state-funded secretary was indicted without arrest. Prosecutors are 
questioning DPJ lawmaker Tomohiro Ishikawa, a former secretary to 
Ozawa, over the failure of Ozawa's political fund management 
organization to report money used to purchase land in Tokyo. 
 
Former chief cabinet secretary Hiromu Nonaka, who was a political 
enemy of Ozawa, stated: "Mr. Ozawa might be feeling irritated. He 
has indicated his eagerness to assume the premiership, and this 
might be showing up in his attempts to intimidate prosecutors." With 
politics-and-money scandals involving senior officials in the 
administration cropping up in one after another, the next regular 
Diet session could be thrown into confusion. We do not feel 
refreshed even when we look at the calendar for the new year. 
 
(6) Chinese ambassador to Japan Cui Tiankai to be named vice foreign 
minister in charge of Six-Party Talks 
 
SANKEI ONLINE (Full) 
12:32, January 4, 2010 
 
Toshu Noguchi in Beijing 
 
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China's state-run Xinhua News Agency reported on Jan. 4 that the 
Chinese government will appoint Ambassador to Japan Cui Tiankai as 
vice minister of foreign affairs. Vice Foreign Minister Wu Dawei, 
who chairs the Six-Party Talks on North Korea's nuclear issue, will 
step down from his post. 
 
Coordination is underway to appoint Ambassador to South Korea Cheng 
Yonghua as Cui's successor. 
 
Cheng once studied at the Soka University in Japan. He served at the 
Chinese embassy in Japan for six years from 1977. He is proficient 
in Japanese and has established many personal connections in Japan. 
He formerly served as the deputy director general of the Chinese 
Foreign Ministry's Asian Affairs Department and minister at the 
embassy in Tokyo. He became ambassador to Malaysia in 2006 and 
ambassador to South Korea in 2008. 
 
As the successor to Vice Minister Wu, Cui is expected to take charge 
of the Six-Party Talks. 
 
ROOS