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China Daily | Updated: 2008-07-04 07:42
Fukuda 'to attend Olympics'
Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda has decided to attend the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics, local media reported yesterday.
Fukuda will be the first Japanese prime minister to attend an Olympics opening ceremony since the late Noboru Takeshita did so in Seoul in 1988, Kyodo News Agency reported.
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