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Article: 2nd Ld-Writhru: Japanese PM to attend opening ceremony of Beijing Olympics
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- July 6, 2008
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2nd Ld-Writhru: Japanese PM to attend opening ceremony of Beijing
Olympics
TOYAKO, Japan, July 6 (Xinhua) -- Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo
Fukuda officially announced here Sunday that he would attend the
opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics.
Fukuda made the announcement at a joint news conference in the
northern Japanese resort of Toyako with U.S. President George W.
Bush.
Fukuda said that he kept his decision up to now because he had to
work out his schedule since there would be an important domestic
event the day after the opening ceremony. But now he found it
possible to attend both events. "There is no need to involve
politics. Even if China has various problems, they are in the ...