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• [NATIONAL NEWS]
  Tokunoshima mayors rebuff base overture
  Feasibility of Hatoyama plan questioned by Kitazawa
  Kyodo News
  The government of Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama contacts the mayors of three towns on Tokunoshima Island in Kagoshima Prefecture in a failed attempt to set up a meeting so Tokyo could explain its ideas about relocating the U.S. Futenma base there.
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• [NATIONAL NEWS]
  Chinese destroyers, subs, passed near the disputed Okinotori atoll
  Kyodo News
  Two Chinese submarines and eight destroyers that were spotted earlier this month on the high seas near Okinawa later passed near Japan's southernmost island of Okinotori, several government sources said Tuesday.
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• [NATIONAL NEWS]
  Give prime minister full disclosure power: Edano
  Kyodo News
  The minister in charge of government revitalization proposed Tuesday that the prime minister be granted the authority to disclose administrative records at government offices even if an office refuses to.
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• [NATIONAL NEWS]
  Hatoyama denies jab by Obama
  Kyodo News
  Yukio Hatoyama denied on Tuesday reports that Barack Obama asked him during their brief talks in Washington last week, "Can you follow through?" when the prime minister promised the president he will settle the Futenma issue by the end of May.
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• [JT EDITORIAL]
  Uphold Upper House ideals
  The Upper House election is expected to be held July 11, with half of the chamber's seats up for grabs. Political parties would do well to keep in mind an ideal held by many voters: The Upper House should not operate like a second Lower House, where partisan interests take precedence over everything, but rather a place where individual lawmakers have greater freedom to develop and revise bills so that a wider range of perspectives can be reflected.
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