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- [NATIONAL NEWS]
Foreigner suffrage opponents rally
By ALEX MARTIN, Staff writer
Conservative intellectuals and key executives from five political parties are among the thousands who gather in Tokyo to rally against granting foreign residents voting rights for local elections.
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- [NATIONAL NEWS]
Reform team targets 150 projects
Kyodo News
The government's administrative reform team plans to scrutinize some 150 projects at 50 public organizations to assess their necessity during the second round of its budget screening process beginning next Friday, sources said Saturday.
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- [NATIONAL NEWS]
Wave pro-Pyongyang schools' tuition fees now: North envoy
PYONGYANG (Kyodo) A senior North Korean official urged Tokyo on Saturday to include pro-Pyongyang schools in Japan in a tuition waiver program for high school students "as early as possible."
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- [JT EDITORIAL]
Mr. Hatoyama's tough task
During a working dinner on April 12 for the nuclear security summit in Washington, Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama was seated next to U.S. President Barack Obama and the two leaders held unofficial talks for 10 minutes. Mr. Hatoyama told Mr. Obama that the issue of the relocation of the U.S. Marine Corps' Air Station Futenma on Okinawa Island would be settled by the end of May and asked Mr. Obama to understand his attempt to alleviate the burden on the residents of Okinawa.
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- [JT EDITORIAL]
Victory for freedom of information
The Tokyo District Court on April 9 determined that Japan and the United States had secret pacts over the 1972 reversion of Okinawa and ordered the state to disclose related diplomatic documents. Twenty-five journalists and academics had filed a lawsuit calling for the disclosure in March 2009 when Mr. Hirofumi Nakasone of the Liberal Democratic Party was foreign minister.
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