Japan's ex-foreign minister Machimura dies at 70

File photo shows Japanese Foreign Minister Nobutaka Machimura (R) shaking hands with U.S. Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice ahead of their talks in New York in September 2007. Machimura died of a cerebral stroke in Tokyo on June 1, 2015, at age 70. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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