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• [NATIONAL NEWS]
  Fukushima fired from Cabinet over Futenma
  By MASAMI ITO and ALEX MARTIN, Staff writers
  Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama boots consumer affairs minister Mizuho Fukushima out of his Cabinet after she opposes a bilateral agreement between Japan and the United States to relocate U.S. Marine Corps Air Station in Okinawa.
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• [NATIONAL NEWS]
  Hatoyama's tenure in doubt as poll looms
  By MASAMI ITO and ALEX MARTIN, Staff writers
  With the Futenma debacle just the latest of the Democratic Party of Japan's broken pledges, Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama is increasingly being seen as a liability as his party faces July's Upper House election.
  http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/nn20100529a2.html
  
  
• [NATIONAL NEWS]
  Futenma blame game in full swing
  By ERIC JOHNSTON, Staff writer
  OSAKA — In the end, the only thing Friday's agreement between the United States and Japan on relocating the Futenma air base does is to yet again avoid fundamental questions and problems that both sides have long ignored in favor of a face-saving political agreement for Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama.
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• [NATIONAL NEWS]
  New accord stokes Okinawan ire
  NAHA, Okinawa Pref. (Kyodo) Okinawa residents expressed anger Friday at a new agreement reached between Japan and the United States to move Marine Corps Air Station Futenma within the prefecture, while local politicians raised doubts about whether the accord will actually be implemented.
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• [NATIONAL NEWS]
  Enola Gay exhibit neutral: curator
  Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum 'not suited' for display on A-bomb's impact
  By SACHIE NAKADA, Kyodo News
  WASHINGTON — A Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum curator said it is unlikely to hold an exhibit describing the devastation caused to Hiroshima by the B-29 Enola Gay it exhibits, though he said such a display would be a "good challenge" for the institution.
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