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• [NATIONAL NEWS]
  SDF to view U.S.-South Korea drill
  Participation intended to demonstrate unified stance against Pyongyang aggression threat
  Kyodo News
  Japan will send Self-Defense Forces observers to a joint military drill to be staged next week by the United States and South Korea in an effort to deter future aggression by the North, the Defense Ministry said Friday.
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• [NATIONAL NEWS]
  Deja vu as Ozawa faces new grilling
  Kyodo News
  Prosecutors have asked former Democratic Party of Japan Secretary General Ichiro Ozawa to submit to voluntary questioning following a judicial panel's decision that the move not to indict him over alleged false financial reporting involving his fund management body was unreasonable, sources said Friday.
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• [NATIONAL NEWS]
  North saboteur Kim leaves; visit 'very meaningful': Sengoku
  Kyodo News
  Former North Korean agent Kim Hyon Hui left Japan on Friday afternoon for South Korea, completing a four-day visit during which she met with relatives of Japanese abducted by Pyongyang.
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• [NATIONAL NEWS]
  Murderess as VIP guest puzzles media
  Trip angers U.S. dads with kids 'abducted' to Japan
  By ERIC JOHNSTON, Staff writer
  OSAKA — Overseas reaction to Kim Hyon Hui's four-day visit to Japan to discuss the abduction of Japanese nationals to North Korea ranged from puzzlement to surprise as to the government's motives, since she had already been questioned on what she knew.
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• [NATIONAL NEWS]
  Okada, Clinton vow to keep Futenma agenda on course
  HANOI (Kyodo) Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada said Friday that he and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton State Hillary Clinton agreed in their meeting that it is important to gain the support of the people of Okinawa for the relocation of U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma within the prefecture.
  Okada added that he and Clinton also agreed that an expert study on details of the plan to relocate the base will be held as scheduled by late August.
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• [NATIONAL NEWS]
  Foreign crime rings targeting Japan
  Kyodo News
  International criminal organizations are increasingly targeting Japan as their members, the locations where they commit crimes and their victims have become more multinational, the National Police Agency said in its white paper released Friday.
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• [NATIONAL NEWS]
  Reformist bar head works to raise way lawyers serve
  Public stands to benefit from mended system
  By SETSUKO KAMIYA, Staff writer
  Lawyer Kenji Utsunomiya has spent his career helping debtors overcome the burden of multiple loans, while pushing for legislation to reduce their numbers. An advocate for the underemployed, in 2008 he served as the honorary mayor of a makeshift "village" set up in Tokyo's Hibiya Park sheltering idled temp workers.
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• [JT EDITORIAL]
  Why the investigative secrecy?
  The Democratic Party of Japan's election manifesto for the 2009 Lower House election called for videotaping entire interrogations of criminal suspects to prevent false charges. It is extremely regrettable that the government has decided to postpone the submission of a related bill to the Diet. Justice Minister Keiko Chiba has backed away from calling for videotaping entire interrogations and now calls for a "realistic review" of the present system.
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