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• [NATIONAL NEWS]
  Inquest: Ozawa merits indictment
  By ALEX MARTIN, Staff writer
  The embattled DPJ-led government receives another blow as an inquest panel decides party kingpin Ichiro Ozawa should be indicted over alleged false reporting of political donations.
  http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/nn20100428a1.html
  
  
• [NATIONAL NEWS]
  Hatoyama edges nearer decision about Futenma
  By JUN HONGO, Staff writer
  Tokyo is getting closer to presenting a final plan to the U.S. for relocating the Futenma air base in Okinawa, Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama indicates.
  http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/nn20100428a2.html
  
  
• [NATIONAL NEWS]
  Okinawa mayors, residents stage Diet sit-in
  
  Kyodo News
  Okinawa mayors and residents staged a sit-in in front of Diet members' buildings on Tuesday to call for the relocation of the U.S. Futenma air base as the administration continued trying to resolve the issue by its self-imposed deadline of May 31.
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• [NATIONAL NEWS]
  JCP agrees with U.S. on nukes, not bases: Shii
  By ALEX MARTIN, Staff writer
  The Japanese Communist Party has welcomed President Barack Obama's efforts to create a world free of nuclear weapons and believes cooperation is possible, party Chairman Kazuo Shii said in an interview ahead of his visit to the U.S., the first ever by a JCP leader.
  http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/nn20100428a5.html
  
  
• [NATIONAL NEWS]
  LDP boots out Yosano, Masuzoe
  Kyodo News
  The Liberal Democratic Party decided Tuesday to expel Kaoru Yosano and Yoichi Masuzoe, who recently launched new parties after submitting letters of resignation to the party.
  http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/nn20100428b2.html
  
  
• [NATIONAL NEWS]
  Hiring of new bureaucrats faces ax
  Kyodo News
  Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama on Tuesday ordered his Cabinet to help halve the number of new hires in the national bureaucracy for fiscal 2011 from the fiscal 2009 level.
  http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/nn20100428b3.html
  
  
• [BUSINESS NEWS]
  Seabed exploration to rile China
  BEIJING (Kyodo) A unilateral move by Tokyo to explore the seabed for resources near the disputed Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea may "trigger a clash" with Beijing, state-run media quoted Chinese analysts as saying Tuesday.
  http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/nb20100428a4.html