By Takuya Karube
Finance Minister Naoto Kan said Friday he believes the Japanese government paid more than a total of $320 million for costs related to the 1972 reversion of Okinawa under ''a secret pact in a broad sense'' with the United States.
Japan and the United States began making arrangements Friday for a possible meeting between Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama and President Barack Obama on the sidelines of the Nuclear Security Summit in Washington next month, government officials said.
The Japan Coast Guard arrested a member of the antiwhaling Sea Shepherd Conservation Society on Friday for allegedly trespassing last month on a ship of Japan's whaling fleet in the Antarctic Ocean.
