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• [NATIONAL NEWS]
  Tokunoshima residents rally against hosting Futenma
  By ERIC JOHNSTON, Staff writer
  At least 11,000 people gather on Tokunoshima to protest a plan to move U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma from Okinawa to the island.
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• [NATIONAL NEWS]
  President asked Hatoyama one key question: Can you 'follow through?'
  Kyodo News
  During the brief chat Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama had with U.S. President Barack Obama earlier this month, Obama asked him a question about the Futenma issue: Will you "follow through?"
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• [NATIONAL NEWS]
  Suginami mayor plans to launch new party
  Kyodo News
  The mayor of Suginami Ward, Tokyo, announces he will form a new party with several former local government leaders to address the policy gaffes being made by the national government.
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• [OPINION]
  SENTAKU MAGAZINE :: Playing ends off the middle
  Komeito, the third largest political party in Japan, is striving not to antagonize but to be friends with as many rival groups as possible in a determined bid to win in the Upper House election scheduled for this summer. The principal reason for pursuing this tactic, which has been described by some as "omni-directional diplomacy," is to give added color to the 80th anniversary this year of the founding of its parent organization, Soka Gakkai, a Buddhist lay organization that claims to have followers among 8 million households in Japan.
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