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A former top bureaucrat in the Foreign Ministry has admitted that he received from his predecessor a document on a secret Japan-U.S. agreement on port calls by U.S. vessels carrying nuclear weapons.
Ryohei Murata, 79, who now lives in Kyoto, received the document from his predecessor when he assumed the post of administrative vice foreign minister in July 1987.
"I had heard that there was a secret agreement, but I first saw a Japanese document on it when I became administrative vice minister," Murata said in an interview with the Mainichi Shimbun.
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