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(Reuters)
Updated: 2007-07-04 16:07

Japan's newly appointed Defence Minister Yuriko Koike reviews an honour guard at the Defence Ministry in Tokyo July 4, 2007. Japan's first-ever female defence minister, former TV presenter Koike, was appointed after her predecessor Fumio Kyuma, was forced to quit over remarks at the weekend that appeared to accept the 1945 US atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. [Reuters]