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Articles in June 29, 1998 issue of Japan Policy & Politics

• JCP to seek cooperation with other opposition groups
• New entity unneeded to cope with bad loans, says Doi
• Labor, Health ministries to hold talks before merger
• Sakigake backs more public funds for bad-loan solution
• Russian premier's Japan visit likely July 12-14
• Hashimoto sets LDP election win-lose line at 61 seats
• U.S. deports Japanese war criminal suspect
• Gov't, LDP reaffirm readiness to aid LTCB
• 5 school textbooks get rewrite of Japan-U.S. security
• 2 Japanese on Russian ship not to be prosecuted
• U.N. sets next exam for recruiting Japanese nationals
• Torch relay for nuclear arms ban starts in Hiroshima
• Panel predicts reform-led 2.5 pc GDP growth by 2004
• Indonesian gov't guarantees people a sense of security
• Ex-vice health minister given 2-year term for bribery
• Local LDP alliance asks S. Korea to cease illegal fishing
• Ratio of teachers' union members drops to 32.7 pc
• Obuchi attends immigration ceremony in Brazil
• Hashimoto hopes for vital role of reform watchdog body
• Foreigner's application to run in election turned down
• MSDF downsizes RIMPAC contingent as cost-cutting move
• Okinawa slams defense guidelines, U.S. military presence
• Japan, Brazil to cooperate on nuclear nonproliferation
• LP's Ozawa backs gov't entities' bad-loan role
• Japanese state minister arrives on Russian-held island
• Hiroshima begins compiling list of atomic bomb victims
• MOF to appoint press secretary
• Peruvian President Fujimori to visit Japan
• 474 vie for 126 seats in upper house poll
• Japanese group found cemeteries on Shikotan, Habomai
• Japan to recall diplomat from Belarus
• Table of party strength in both houses of Diet
• High court upholds ruling against Toyama gov't
• G-8, nonnuclear nations to meet July 9
• Japan, Russia hold new round of peace treaty talks
• Hashimoto urges support for political stability
• Administrative reform bills to be submitted in April
• Kan regrets appointing Okamitsu as vice minister
• Komei won't join proposed opposition coalition
• 458 candidates plan to vie in upper house election
• Health minister calls for steps on declining birth rate
• U.S., Canada reject entry of 2 ex-Japanese soldiers
• Suzuki tells residents of disputed island not to worry