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...with the Ehime Maru accident. Calls for his resignation are ricocheting around the Diet office buildings in Tokyo. Mori is scheduled to journey to the U.S. to meet President Bush in early March, a visit that has been hastily moved ahead because of the submarine accident. But, says Midori Matsushima, a Diet member from the Mori faction of the Liberal Democratic Party, "I'm not sure what kind of position he'll be in by that time...
Kazutoshi Ito, head of the National Land Agency's disaster division, told journalists that sending soldiers into local governments' jurisdiction would have smacked of ``a return to prewar militarism.'' But the commander of Japanese defense forces in the region, Lieut. General Yusuke Matsushima, brushed tears from his eyes when he apologized in public last week. ``People said, Why didn't you help us sooner?'' he recounted. ``I understand, but it was--the situation...
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