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Article: Update: Japanese defense agency formally turns into a ministry
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- January 9, 2007
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Update: Japanese defense agency formally turns into a ministry
TOKYO, Jan. 9 (Xinhua) -- The Japanese Defense Agency was formally
upgraded to a full ministry on Tuesday morning with a ceremony
attended by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and new Defense Minister Fumio
Kyuma.
The name signs at the main gate of the Defense Agency headquarters
in central Tokyo were replaced shortly before the ceremony with new
name board written by Kyuma.
Abe said he is proud to be prime minister at the time when the
Defense Ministry is established as an organization which plays the
role of national defense that is inalienable from state sovereignty,
Kyodo News said.
The prime minister described the upgrading as ...