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...paid into the system for 10 months in 1996. In fact, 113 members of the Diet (including seven Cabinet members) have been found so far to have been delinquent at some point. Hoping to temper the damage to the LDP with a single sacrificial lamb, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yasuo Fukuda turned in his resignation two weeks ago. Kan followed suit three days later. Late last week, Koizumi admitted that he, too, had missed a series of payments but had done so long before contributions became mandatory in 1986. Not surprisingly, the DPJ has called for his resignation, though that...
...certain only to encourage more delinquency. Yet rather than focus on the real scandal-that Japan's citizens labor under a pension system that won't come close to providing for them-newspapers continue to call for more resignations. With the departure of capable politicians like Kan and Fukuda, the likelihood that the system will ever see real change is diminished. So much for Japan's new era of political maturity...
...RESIGNED. YASUO FUKUDA, 67, trusted adviser to Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and the government's top spokesman; from his position as Chief Cabinet Secretary after he admitted failing to pay his national pension premiums for 105 months from 1976 to 1995; in Tokyo. Fukuda's resignation came amid revelations that seven Cabinet members, and the head of the opposition Democratic Party of Japan, have failed to meet their pension payments, despite a recent government campaign exhorting the public to do so. Announcing his resignation, Fukuda apologized for "intensifying people's distrust in politics...
...They may have gone on their own, but they must consider how many people they caused trouble to." YASUO FUKUDA, Japanese government spokesman, justifying the government's deliberations over whether to bill the freed hostages for their flights home...
...North. To President George W. Bush, those might seem good reasons to expect help in Iraq from two Asian friends. But last week, a day after the suicide attack in the southern Iraqi town of Nasiriyah that killed 31 people, including 18 Italians, Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Yasuo Fukuda said Japan was suspending plans to dispatch its Self-Defense Forces (S.D.F.) to Iraq by the end of the year. "We could send troops if the circumstances permit," he said. "But they do not." Around the same time, South Korean President Roh Moo Hyun told his Cabinet to limit Korea...