Tokyo Gov. Ishihara at Narita airport

NARITA, Japan - Tokyo Gov. Shintaro Ishihara answers a reporter's question at Narita airport upon arrival from the United States on April 19, 2012. During a speech he gave in Washington on April 16, Ishihara revealed that the Tokyo metropolitan government is negotiating with the owner of three major islands of the disputed Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea with the aim of buying them by the end of this year.

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