Japan's ex-foreign minister Machimura dead at 70

File photo shows Japanese Foreign Minister Nobutaka Machimura (L) accompanying Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi at the U.N. World Summit in New York in September 2005. Machimura died of a cerebral stroke in Tokyo on June 1, 2015, at age 70. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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