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• [NATIONAL NEWS]
  Roos likely to attend Hiroshima ceremony
  WASHINGTON (Kyodo) U.S. Ambassador John Roos will likely attend the annual Aug. 6 ceremony in Hiroshima to commemorate the 1945 atomic bombing, becoming the first U.S. government representative to be sent to the event, sources close to bilateral relations said Tuesday.
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• [NATIONAL NEWS]
  Defense draft urges SDF upgrade
  Kan team pushes for ability to deal with more than one crisis at a time
  Kyodo News
  The Self-Defense Forces need to enhance their capabilities to respond effectively to multiple emergencies, an advisory panel for Prime Minister Naoto Kan says, while calling for relaxing Japan's decades-long nonnuclear principles and arms embargo rules.
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• [NATIONAL NEWS]
  Report delayed to avoid riling Seoul over isles
  Kyodo News
  The government is set to delay the planned release later this week of its annual report on national defense policies, as it seeks to avoid inflaming a territorial dispute with South Korea ahead of a key anniversary related to bilateral ties next month, according to sources.
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• [NATIONAL NEWS]
  Sengoku grand coalition talk sparks LDP caution
  Kyodo News
  Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshito Sengoku's recent remarks about a possible grand coalition between the ruling Democratic Party of Japan and the Liberal Democratic Party have drawn cautious responses from the opposition camp.
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• [NATIONAL NEWS]
  ASEAN turns to music to cement ties
  Fukumura will wield the baton
  By KAZUHISA MIYAKE, Kyodo News
  HANOI — A major musical event is in the making for the Association of Southeast Asian Nations and East Asia Summit meetings in Hanoi in October.
  Artists from the 10 countries making up ASEAN will form an orchestra to be conducted by the world-renowned Yoshikazu Fukumura.
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• [NATIONAL NEWS]
  Kan to hold rare news conference on opening day of special Diet session
  Kyodo News
  Prime Minister Naoto Kan will hold a news conference Friday on the first day of an extraordinary Diet session in an apparent attempt to reverse his falling popularity.
  It is rare for a prime minister to meet with the press when a legislative session begins.
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• [JT EDITORIAL]
  Limiting budget requests
  The government has adopted guidelines for fiscal 2011 budget requests. Government spending and bond issuance will be at the same levels as in fiscal 2010. For the sake of long-term financial reconstruction, Cabinet ministers must refrain from bloating their budget requests. Since money will be tight, the administration must show ingenuity in determining how the money will be used.
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• [OPINION]
  A clash of interests in Asia
  By FRANK CHING
  The show of force mounted this week off the Korean Peninsula by the United States and South Korea was the biggest in decades and was intended to warn North Korea not to take aggressive action against the South.
  China, however, objected to the military exercises and called for "restraint" by all parties.
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