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• [NATIONAL NEWS]
  Japan, U.S. arranging Kan-Obama summit in N.Y.
  Kyodo News
  The second bilateral talks between Prime Minister Naoto Kan and U.S. President Barack Obama are being arranged to take place in September in New York.
  http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/nn20100822a1.html
  
  
• [NATIONAL NEWS]
  GSDF members depart for Pakistan
  Kyodo News
  The first members of a Self-Defense Forces helicopter unit that will provide humanitarian relief to flood-hit Pakistan depart from Fukuoka airport.
  http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/nn20100822a2.html
  
  
• [NATIONAL NEWS]
  JCG admits hiding copter crash details
  Kyodo News
  A Japan Coast Guard regional office admits that it initially withheld from the media the fact that a coast guard helicopter that crashed into the Seto Inland Sea was conducting demonstration flights.
  http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/nn20100822a3.html
  
  
• [NATIONAL NEWS]
  Ginowan mayor in race for top Okinawa job
  Kyodo News
  http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/nn20100822a4.html
  
  
• [NATIONAL NEWS]
  Private use of SDF aircraft touted
  Kyodo News
  http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/nn20100822a6.html
  
  
• [NATIONAL NEWS]
  Film shows Japan-U.S. postwar security rows
  Kyodo News
  http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/nn20100822a8.html
  
  
• [LIFE IN JAPAN]
  Uneasy neighbors across the sea
  Japan's colonial rule in Korea between 1910 and 1945 has left open wounds that are still far from being healed
  August 22 is the 100th anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Annexation between Japan and Korea that came into effect on Aug. 29, 1910 — commemorated now in North and South Korea as a day of shame.
  http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/fl20100822x1.html
  
  
• [LIFE IN JAPAN]
  Korean-Japanese history in modern times
  By JEFF KINGSTON, Special to The Japan Times
  The following is a chronology of the key points in modern Korean-Japanese history.
  http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/fl20100822x4.html