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• [NATIONAL NEWS]
  Kan proposes to slash Diet ranks
  DPJ chief repeats goal of paring fat by year's end, vows to stay on
  Prime Minister Naoto Kan vowed Friday to prop up the economy by slashing wasteful spending, including reducing the ranks of lawmakers, while budgeting for projects that stimulate the job market and "bring back vigor."
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• [NATIONAL NEWS]
  Tokyo death chamber to be opened to media
  Kyodo News
  The Justice Ministry will open the execution chamber at the Tokyo Detention House to the media as early as August, Justice Minister Keiko Chiba said Friday.
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• [NATIONAL NEWS]
  DPJ, Kan in hot seat as Diet opens
  Party keeps Upper House helm; LDP flexes muscle
  By ALEX MARTIN, Staff writer
  The first extraordinary Diet session under the administration of Prime Minister Naoto Kan convened Friday, with the opposition looking to pressure the ruling coalition following the recent loss of its Upper House majority.
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• [NATIONAL NEWS]
  Sept. 14 DPJ presidential poll
  Kyodo News
  The ruling Democratic Party of Japan is planning to hold its presidential election on Sept. 14, DPJ sources said Friday. The vote will decide whether Prime Minister Naoto Kan remains in his post amid a gradual decline in support ratings.
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• [JT EDITORIAL]
  A call for death penalty debate
  Until July 28, no executions had been carried out for a year in Japan, with death row convicts numbering a record 109. On that day, two inmates were hanged in the Tokyo Detention House.
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• [OPINION]
  Beijing's Asia power play
  By MICHAEL RICHARDSON
  China's economic and military might has grown in recent years along with its overseas trade and investment. China is becoming an oceanic power with growing clout in the Asia-Pacific region.
  It demonstrated naval, air and amphibious strength this year by holding exercises in the South and East China seas, where it has unresolved territorial and maritime boundary disputes with several Southeast Asian countries and with Japan.
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