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SUBJECT:  JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 01/15/10 
 
INDEX: 
 
1) Top headlines 
2) Editorials 
3) Prime Minister's daily schedule (Nikkei) 
 
Futenma replacement search: 
4) SDP, PNP step up efforts to find Futenma replacement facility 
(Yomiuri) 
5) Senator Inouye asks Defense Minister for early resolution of 
Futenma issue  (Asahi) 
 
Defense & security: 
6) Hatoyama to call for abolition of nukes in statement marking 50th 
anniversary of Japan-U.S. security  (Mainichi) 
7) MSDF Indian Ocean refueling mission ends today  (Yomiuri) 
8) Hatoyama: Refueling mission lacked policy significance  (Yomiuri) 
 
 
Politics: 
9) 1.5 billion yen of former Jiyu party funds went to Ozawa fund 
management organization  (Sankei) 
10) Ozawa ordered cover-up in land deal  (Sankei) 
11) Govt. to reorganize postal service into three companies 
(Mainichi) 
12) LDP to examine total revision of Constitution  (Yomiuri) 
13) Haraguchi says government should be cautious about granting 
suffrage to foreign residents  (Nikkei) 
 
Foreign relations: 
14) Govt. pledges 5 million dollars in emergency aid to Haiti 
(Nikkei) 
15) Japanese, German foreign ministers agree on nuclear arms 
reduction  (Nikkei) 
16) Okada says Japan would not hesitate to impose sanctions on Iran 
(Nikkei) 
 
Economy: 
17) Govt. to build port infrastructure on Okinotori and Minamitori 
islands  (Nikkei) 
 
Articles: 
 
1) TOP HEADLINES 
 
Asahi: 
Record low of 73.1 percent of graduating college students secure 
jobs as of last month, down 7.4 points 
 
Mainichi: 
Quake victims in Haiti in need of prompt rescue 
 
Yomiuri: 
Land purchase by DPJ Secretary General Ozawa's political fund 
management body: Lawmaker Ishikawa affixed a mark to some deposit 
records in bank books in connection with land purchase; 50 million 
yen received from Shimizu Construction Co. 
 
Nikkei: 
Willcom to seek financial help from government-backed turnaround 
body; final coordination underway for restructuring 
 
 
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Sankei: 
Former Liberal Party's funds worth 1.5 billion yen funneled to 
Ozawa's organization under guise of subsidies to Fujii 
 
Tokyo Shimbun: 
Major quake in Haiti: International relief operation under way: 
Finding survivors race against time 
 
Akahata: 
25th Congress of Japanese Communist Party: Brisk debate continues 
 
2) EDITORIALS 
 
Asahi: 
(1) DPJ Secretary General Ozawa: Why is he refusing to respond to 
questioning by public prosecutors? 
(2) Major quake in Haiti: Deliver relief to one of the world's 
poorest countries hit by catastrophe 
 
Mainichi: 
(1) Public prosecutors search Ozawa's office: Get to bottom of 400 
million yen used to purchase plot of land 
(2) Censoring Google is a matter of China's integrity 
 
Yomiuri: 
(1) MSDF refueling mission in Indian Ocean ends 
(2) Kazuo Inamori picked to serve as JAL's CEO: Rebuild carrier with 
fundamental reform involving both labor and management 
 
Nikkei: 
(1) China should allow freedom of expression on Internet 
(2) Early resumption of refueling mission in Indian Ocean urged 
 
Sankei: 
(1) Refueling mission in Indian Ocean ends: Foolish decision that 
will undermine national interests 
(2) Land purchase scandal involving Ozawa: Isn't DPJ concerned about 
the case? 
 
Tokyo Shimbun: 
(1) Ozawa's political fund issue: Focus is on whether illegal 
contributions were made 
(2) Financial assistance to college students should be boosted to 
prevent disparity from widening 
 
Akahata: 
(1) 15th anniversary of Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake: Continue to put 
lessons learned in disastrous experience to good use 
 
3) Prime Minister's Official Residence (Kantei) 
 
Prime Minister's schedule, January 14 
 
NIKKEI (Page 2) (Full) 
January 15, 2010 
 
10:30 Met Softbank President Masayoshi Son at the Prime Minister's 
Official Residence. 
11:03 Attended an event to kick off the "Challenge 25 Campaign" for 
the prevention of global warming. 
12:00 Had lunch with participants in the event. 
14:04 Met Cabinet Intelligence Director Mitani, followed by 
 
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Environment Ministry Chief Secretary Minamikawa. Later met Education 
Minister Kawabata, Senior Vice Minister Suzuki, and Parliamentary 
Secretary Takai. 
15:36 Met Election Strategy Council Chairman Ishii. 
16:04 Met German Foreign Minister Westerwelle, with Deputy Chief 
Cabinet Secretary Matsuo and Parliamentary Secretary Kira present. 
Later met Foreign Minister Okada. 
18:45 Met Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirano. 
19:08 Dined with Matsuno and Lower House member Hirofumi Ryu at a 
Japanese restaurant in Ebisu. 
22:35 Returned to his official residential quarters. 
 
4) SDP, PNP actively visiting prospective Futenma relocation sites, 
face backlash from local communities 
 
YOMIURI (Page 2) (Full) 
January 15, 2010 
 
The Social Democratic Party (SDP) and the People's New Party (PNP) 
are busy looking for relocation sites for the U.S. forces' Futenma 
Air Station in Okinawa. However, many local communities have reacted 
strongly, so their coordination process is running into 
difficulties. 
 
PNP policy chief Mikio Shimoji visited Iwakuni City in Yamaguchi 
Prefecture on Jan. 14 and met Mayor Yoshihiko Fukuda. Shimoji 
indicated his intention to review the role of the U.S. forces' 
Iwakuni base in the city under the U.S. Forces Japan realignment 
process, but the mayor voiced his objection: "It is absolutely 
unacceptable for Iwakuni to become a candidate relocation site for 
Futenma. The citizens will be thrown into confusion and will become 
agitated." 
 
Shimoji also visited Omura City in Nagasaki Prefecture and met with 
Mayor Takashi Matsumoto. He asked the mayor to accept some exercises 
from Futenma at the Maritime Self-Defense Force base in Omura, but 
the mayor would only say: "We will only think about it if there is 
an official proposal from the government." SDP House of 
Representatives member Kantoku Teruya had also made the same 
proposal to Omura City on Jan. 12, but the mayor told him he was 
"absolutely opposed" to the proposal. 
 
Shimoji told reporters on Jan. 14: "Everyone is against (hosting) a 
military base. However, (the cost of) security needs to be shared. 
If everyone says 'no' (to hosting military bases), everything will 
be concentrated (in Okinawa)." He stressed his intention to ask 
local governments outside of Okinawa to be flexible. 
 
Meanwhile, Osaka Governor Toru Hashimoto talked to reporters about 
using Kansai International Airport and said: "If this will reduce 
the burden on Okinawa, I am willing to discuss this matter," 
indicating his willingness to talk with the government. The SDP is 
also considering relocating the Futenma base out of Japan. Its 
members will visit U.S. military bases in Guam in late January. 
 
5) Senator Inouye meets defense chief 
 
ASAHI (Page 4) (Abridged) 
January 15, 2010 
 
U.S. Democratic Senator Daniel Inouye, a heavyweight in the U.S. 
Congress and a Japanese-American, met with Defense Minister Toshimi 
 
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Kitazawa yesterday at the Defense Ministry. During the meeting, they 
talked about the pending issue of relocating the U.S. military's 
Futenma airfield in Ginowan, Okinawa Prefecture. "I don't think this 
issue will damage Japan-U.S. relations," Inouye said. "But," he 
added, "I hope this issue will be resolved as early as possible." 
 
In response, Kitazawa indicated that the Japanese government would 
try to reach a conclusion on the issue at an early date, saying: "We 
have set a time limit to do so by May. We will give top priority to 
this issue after the budget passes (in late March)." Later in the 
day, Inouye also met with Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada and 
Democratic Party of Japan Diet Affairs Committee Chairman Kenji 
Yamaoka. 
 
6) Statement on security anniversary to promise "efforts for nuclear 
abolition," stress importance of Japan-U.S. security arrangements as 
"deterrent" 
 
MAINICHI (Page 2) (Full) 
January 15, 2010 
 
The government yesterday revealed an outline of the statement that 
Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama will announce on the 50th anniversary 
of the revision of the Japan-U.S. Security Treaty on Jan. 19. The 
statement will define 2010 as an important year to further deepen 
the Japan-U.S. alliance, and promise that Japan will make efforts to 
promote the abolition of nuclear weapons. It will also underscore 
the importance of the Japan-U.S. security arrangements as a 
"deterrent" to threats from nuclear powers. 
 
The governments of Japan and the U.S. conducted coordination on the 
issuance of a joint statement by Prime Minister Hatoyama and 
President Barack Obama. But given that their officials in charge of 
foreign policy and defense matters are scheduled to announce a joint 
statement on the 19th, they judged it appropriate for the leaders of 
Japan and the U.S. to issue statements separately, according to 
Japanese and U.S. diplomatic sources. 
 
The statement will express Japan's determination not to possess 
nuclear weapons, falling in step with President Obama, who has set 
forth the goal of abolishing all nuclear weapons in the future. 
Meanwhile, in reference to the existence of nuclear powers, 
including North Korea, the statement will point out the role the 
Japan-U.S. security arrangements have played in Japan's national 
security. It will also emphasize that Japan needs to cooperate 
closely with the U.S. for its development in the Asia-Pacific region 
as well. 
 
7) MSDF pullout order to be issued today 
 
YOMIURI (Page 2) (Full) 
January 15, 2010 
 
The Maritime Self-Defense Force has been operating in the Indian 
Ocean, where its ships have been engaged in refueling activities 
under the new Anti-Terrorism Special Measures Law. This special 
measures law will expire today, and the MSDF will wind up its 
refueling mission in the Indian Ocean and recall its vessels there. 
Today, Defense Minister Kitazawa will order the Mashu, a supply ship 
tasked with refueling activities, and the Ikazuchi, a destroyer 
escorting the refueling ship, to end the mission. The two MSDF 
vessels will end the mission tomorrow at 12:00 a.m. and will return 
 
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home. 
 
The MSDF's Indian Ocean refueling mission started in December 2001 
in the wake of the simultaneous terrorist attacks against the United 
States in September that year. The refueling activities, though once 
temporarily suspended, have continued for about eight years. 
 
8) Hatoyama: No meaning from perspective of policy 
 
YOMIURI (Page 2) (Full) 
January 15, 2010 
 
The Maritime Self-Defense Force's refueling mission in the Indian 
Ocean will end today. Asked about this, Prime Minister Hatoyama made 
the following comment to reporters at his office: "All of those MSDF 
members have worked very hard. I'd like to express my heartfelt 
gratitude. But I do not think it has had sufficient meaning from the 
perspective of policy. The actual results of the refueling 
activities demonstrate that." 
 
9) 1.5 billion yen from now defunct Liberal Party was diverted to 
Ozawa-connected political organization 
 
SANKEI (Top play) (Excerpts) 
January 15, 2010 
 
In 2002, the now defunct Liberal Party headed by Ichiro Ozawa, who 
is now secretary general of the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), 
allegedly disbursed over 1.5 billion yen to former Finance Minister 
Hirohisa Fujii. But in reality, the money was diverted to "Reform 
Forum 21," a political organization connected with Ozawa, it was 
learned from an informed source yesterday. The funds were political 
party subsidies. This indicates that Ozawa put the party subsidies, 
public funds, under his control. 
 
There were no entries on such transactions in the political fund 
reports prepared by the political organization. The statute of 
limitations (five years) to bring charges against the organization 
under the Political Funds Control Law has already expired. 
Nevertheless, another case of questionable fund transactions 
involving Ozawa has surfaced. With Fujii indicating that he was 
totally unaware of the case, the unclear account on the money was an 
issue at the Diet as well. This is the first time that a case 
concerning the destination of a huge amount of money involving the 
Liberal Party has come to light. 
 
10) Lawmaker Ishikawa's ex-secretary indicates that he helped 
Ishikawa conceal evidence on land purchase at Ozawa's order 
 
SANKEI (Page 1) (Excerpts) 
January 15, 2010 
 
The Liberal Democratic Party held a study session yesterday at its 
headquarters in an effort to uncover the truth about the plot of 
land purchased by Rikuzan-kai, the fund management organization of 
Democratic Party of Japan Secretary General Ichiro Ozawa. The 
meeting was attended by Kei Kanazawa, 41, president of a real estate 
company, and Tomohiro Ishikawa, a former secretary to House of 
Representatives member, who was questioned by the Tokyo District 
Public Prosecutors Office's special investigation team. Kanazawa 
revealed that on March 3, 2009, shortly before the special 
investigation team had searched the Rikuzan-kai office in connection 
 
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with huge donations from Nishimatsu Construction Co., he received a 
request from Ishikawa, saying, "Mr. Ozawa instructed me to conceal 
things that are critical. I need your help," and that he helped to 
conceal the evidence. 
 
11) Japan Post reorganization plan: Government decides on 
three-company system 
 
MAINICHI (Page 4) (Full) 
January 15, 2010 
 
In reviewing the organizational structure for the Japan Post Group, 
the government has decided to reorganize it into three companies. 
According to the plan, Japan Post Bank Co. and Japan Post Insurance 
Co. will be placed under the wing of a parent company that is to be 
formed by merging Japan Post Holdings Co., a holding company, Japan 
Post Service Co., and Japan Post Network Co. 
 
The government has put off making a decision on each company's 
stake, because while the government draft seeks to enhance the 
parent company's freedom of management by curbing the government 
stake in it to one-third or 50 percent, the People's New Party 
strongly called for the ratio of the ownership by the government in 
the parent company to be more than two-thirds and that by the parent 
company in each of the two financial companies under its wing to be 
more than two-thirds. 
 
12) LDP panel to study complete change in Article 9 
 
YOMIURI (Page 4) (Full) 
January 15, 2010 
 
The Liberal Democratic Party's (LDP) Headquarters for the Promotion 
of Constitutional Revision, headed by former Policy Research Council 
chairman Kosuke Hori, decided in a meeting yesterday to look into 
drastically changing the entire contents of Article 9, bearing in 
mind the possibility of mentioning the allowance of the use of the 
right to collected self-defense. In the new revised constitution it 
produced in 2005, Item 1 of Article 9, which provides for pacifism 
ideology, was retained, and Item 2 was completely removed and 
replaced with a stipulation on the right to maintain a self-defense 
force. 
 
13) Government should be cautious about submitting suffrage bill: 
Internal Affairs Minister Haraguchi 
 
NIKKEI (Page 2) (Full) 
January 15, 2010 
 
Speaking at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan, Internal 
Affairs and Communications Minister Kazuhiro Haraguchi said in 
reference to a bill to grant permanent foreign residents suffrage in 
local elections, "The government should be cautious in leading the 
Diet to grant a right under democracy." 
 
14) Government to provide Haiti with 5 million dollars in emergency 
aid 
 
NIKKEI (Page 2) (Full) 
January 15, 2010 
 
The government announced yesterday that it will extend up to 5 
 
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million dollars in grants to Haiti, which was hit by a powerful 
earthquake. It will also provide 30 million yen worth of emergency 
aid supplies, including tents. In addition, it will send a 
fact-finding team led by Ambassador to Haiti Nobutaka Shinomiya. 
 
15) Hatoyama, German foreign minister agree on disarmament 
 
NIKKEI (Page 2) (Full) 
January 15, 2010 
 
Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama yesterday held talks with German 
Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle at the Prime Minister's Official 
Residence (Kantei). During the meeting, Hatoyama expressed his 
determination to be actively involved in the Nuclear Security Summit 
slated for later this year and the Review Conference of the Nuclear 
Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). He said, "I would like to make this 
year an epoch-making year in aiming to create a world without 
nuclear weapons." Westerwelle responded, "We want to cooperate with 
Japan." 
 
16) Foreign Minister Okada: Japan will not hesitate to impose 
sanctions on Iran 
 
NIKKEI (Page 2) (Full) 
January 15, 2010 
 
Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada and his German counterpart Guido 
Westerwelle held a joint press conference after their meeting. 
Referring in the press conference to Iran's rejection of the 
International Atomic Energy Agency's proposal to move slightly 
enriched uranium outside Iran, Okada stated: "If the international 
community imposes sanctions, Japan will not hesitate to join them." 
 
17) Government to submit legislation to build ports on Okinotori 
Island and Minamitori Island to protect resources 
 
NIKKEI (Page 1) (Abridged slightly) 
January 15, 2010 
 
The government decided yesterday to submit to the next regular Diet 
session to be convened on Jan. 18 a bill authorizing the 
preservation of the nation's outlying islands that will become a 
base for developing marine resources. The legislation requires the 
preservation of the coastlines of the nation's southernmost island 
of Okinotori Island and its easternmost island of Minamitori Island, 
both in Ogasawara Village, Tokyo, so that the country can construct 
ports and other infrastructure there. The two islands allow Japan to 
protect the interests of its exclusive economic zones (EEZ). 
 
International law allows countries to claim an area up to 200 
nautical miles from their coasts as exclusive economic zones. The 
EEZ around Okinotori Island measures about 400,000 square kilometers 
and that around Minamitori Island 450,000 square kilometers. The 
combined areas around the two islands that are equivalent to more 
than twice Japan's landmass are recognized as Japan's EEZs. But 
China argues that Okinotori Island is merely a group of rocks, not 
an island, and thus cannot be used to demarcate Japan's EEZ. The 
legislation is partly designed to keep China in check by 
establishing conditions enabling Japan to conduct fishing activities 
and develop rare resources around Okinotori Island. 
 
The legislation (1) allows the country to formulate a basic 
 
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preservation and improvement plan; (2) prohibits any acts altering 
the existing coastlines and requires protection from submergence and 
encroachment; and (3) makes it possible to build port facilities 
that are directly managed by the government. 
 
The government first intends to designate Okinotori Island and 
Minamitori Island as subject to the legislation and to include part 
of their expenses in the fiscal 2010 budget. Large vessels cannot 
make port calls at the two islands, and there are no ports nearby 
that can anchor vessels in bad weather. 
 
ZUMWALT