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Suga apologizes for calls to hit Okinawa papers

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Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga apologized to Okinawa Gov. Takeshi Onaga during talks July 4 in Tokyo for calls by members of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party and its associates to destroy or attack the funding of his prefecture's two main newspapers for reporting critically on the government's security bills, the governor said.

The two also agreed to continue discussing their differences over a U.S.-Japan plan to relocate a U.S. military base within the prefecture, the governor said after the meeting in Tokyo. (Kyodo)

自民勉強会の報道規制発言、菅長官が沖縄知事に謝罪

菅義偉官房長官は7月4日、翁長雄志沖縄県知事と会談し、自民党議員の勉強会で沖縄の地元2紙に圧力をかけるような発言が出たことについて陳謝した。

The Japan Times ST: July 17, 2015