By KAZUKI UECHI/ Staff Writer
June 1, 2022 at 07:00 JST
Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi, right foreground, listens to an official’s briefing in March 2000 in a corridor of the Bankoku Shinryokan convention hall in Nago, Okinawa Prefecture. (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
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