Former Defense Agency chief Kawara dies

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in September 2008 shows Tsutomu Kawara, the former director general of the Defense Agency. Kawara died of pneumonia on Jan. 13, 2013, at a hospital in Nanao, Ishikawa Prefecture. He was 75.

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