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• [NATIONAL NEWS]
  Kishi 'understood' secret nuke pact, '63 letter indicates
  Kyodo News
  When negotiating the revised Japan-U.S. security treaty in 1960, then Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi and Foreign Minister Aiichiro Fujiyama knew that a diplomatic record on allowing U.S. nuclear-armed vessels to enter Japanese ports without prior consultation constituted a secret pact, a newly found U.S. document shows.
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• [NATIONAL NEWS]
  Court bans protesters at cinema airing 'Cove'
  Kyodo News
  The Yokohama District Court bans a Tokyo civic group from staging protests around a movie theater in Yokohama that plans to screen the Oscar-winning U.S. documentary "The Cove" about a contentious dolphin kill in Wakayama Prefecture.
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• [NATIONAL NEWS]
  Kan in Canada for summits
  G8, G20 leaders to take up development, security, fiscal remedies
  TORONTO (Kyodo) — Prime Minister Naoto Kan arrived in Canada on Thursday night to attend two major summits, where he will discuss with other leaders a range of issues from development and security to fiscal consolidation.
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• [NATIONAL NEWS]
  Kan, officials jubilant over soccer success
  By JUN HONGO, Staff writer
  Top officials were jubilant Friday about Japan's overnight triumph over Denmark at the soccer World Cup, with Prime Minister Naoto Kan offering congratulations to the Blue Samurai from his Toronto-bound government jet.
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• [NATIONAL NEWS]
  Returnee gets 6 1/2 years for cabby robbery
  By SETSUKO KAMIYA, Staff writer
  A U.S. citizen was convicted Friday and sentenced to 6 1/2 years in prison in a Tokyo District Court lay judge trial for his involvement, with two other foreign nationals, in robbing a taxi and wounding the driver in 2008.
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• [NATIONAL NEWS]
  Absentees cast early ballots for July poll
  Kyodo News
  Japanese expatriates began voting Friday for the July 11 House of Councilors election at embassies and consulates in Australia, China and elsewhere in the world.
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• [NATIONAL NEWS]
  New Komeito's leader lays into 'wavering' DPJ, rules out coalition
  By MASAMI ITO, Staff writer
  New Komeito leader Natsuo Yamaguchi denounced the ruling Democratic Party of Japan for wavering in its policies and not keeping its promises with the public, and said his party has no plan to enter into a coalition with the DPJ.
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