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• [NATIONAL NEWS]
  Hatoyama reiterates Futenma vow while dining with Obama
  Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama says he told U.S. President Barack Obama on Monday that the question of where to relocate the Futenma military base will be concluded by the end of May.
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• [NATIONAL NEWS]
  MSDF tracks China armada off Okinawa
  Kyodo News
  Two Chinese submarines and eight destroyers have been spotted heading southeast between the main island of Okinawa and Miyako Island, Okinawa Prefecture.
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• [NATIONAL NEWS]
  LDP's Masuzoe may launch party along with two popular governors
  Kyodo News
  Former health minister Yoichi Masuzoe of the LDP is considering teaming up with Osaka Gov. Toru Hashimoto and Miyazaki Gov. Hideo Higashikokubaru to form a new party, several LDP sources say.
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• [NATIONAL NEWS]
  Ex-justice taps body for easy loan, raise
  
  Kyodo News
  Retired Supreme Court Justice Yasukazu Kagawa received a ¥15 million interest-free loan without collateral from a Justice Ministry-linked public service body he heads and his monthly pay was simultaneously doubled to ¥1 million, sources said Tuesday.
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• [NATIONAL NEWS]
  Hatoyama Asia community plan places China, Japan at the core
  WASHINGTON (Kyodo) Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama told Chinese President Hu Jintao their nations will constitute the core of his envisioned East Asian community, while the leaders also agreed to work closely to bring North Korea back to the six-party talks on its denuclearization, a Japanese official said.
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• [NATIONAL NEWS]
  Kan may reopen secret-pact probe
  
  Kyodo News
  Finance Minister Naoto Kan said Tuesday he will consider whether it is necessary to look further into developments related to a secret pact struck between Tokyo and Washington over the 1972 reversion of Okinawa, following a recent court order.
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• [OPINION]
  For Japan to thrive, the wall must come down
  By ROBERT DUJARRIC, Special to The Japan Times
  More than 20 years have passed since the Berlin Wall fell, yet Japan remains shut out from the rest of humanity by its own wall. Though it is a shapeless partition that we cannot touch, it nevertheless cuts off the country from the world beyond its shores. What are the characteristics of this invisible barrier?
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• [OPINION]
  Obama's new nuclear policy
  RICHARD WEITZ, Center for Political-Military Analysis, Hudson Institute
  WASHINGTON — Perhaps never in history have nuclear security, nonproliferation and arms control received the prominence that they are provided by this month's strategic trifecta: the April 6 release of the latest United States Nuclear Posture Review (NPR), the April 8 signing in Prague of the New START Treaty and the April 12-13 Nuclear Security Summit. These events will flow into May's Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference.
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