Okinawa starts 100-day countdown to G-8 summit

Okinawa starts 100-day countdown to G-8 summit

NAHA, Japan - An Okinawa prefectural government official, assisted by local nursery school children, unveiles a 7.2-meter-tall wooden countdown board reading ''100 days to go before the summit of the Group of Eight (G-8) nations'' in Okinawa scheduled for July 21-23.

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