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Ex-secretary general Hosono to run in DPJ leadership election

TOKYO, Japan - Goshi Hosono (C), former secretary general of the Democratic Party of Japan, leaves a general meeting of DPJ Diet members at the party's headquarters in Tokyo's Nagatacho district on Dec. 17, 2014. Hosono said the same day he will run in the largest opposition party's leadership race on Jan. 18 to pick a successor to outgoing DPJ President Banri Kaieda.

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Ex-secretary general Hosono to run in DPJ leadership election

TOKYO, Japan - Goshi Hosono, former secretary general of the Democratic Party of Japan, announces in Tokyo on Dec. 17, 2014, his candidacy for the largest opposition party's leadership race on Jan. 18 to pick a successor to outgoing DPJ President Banri Kaieda.

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Mandela's ex-secretary warns of hostility in S. Africa

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa - Zelda La Grange, private secretary to former South African President Nelson Mandela for 19 years, speaks in an interview with Kyodo News in Johannesburg on Nov. 24, 2014. La Grange said South Africa nowadays is filled with animosity and that society has failed to learn from the late leader's examples.

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DPJ's Kano denies link to scam despite ex-secretary's arrest

TOKYO, Japan - Michihiko Kano, a vice president of the main opposition Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), speaks to reporters in the Diet building in Tokyo on Jan. 15 about the arrest of his former secretary in relation to a scandal over a public works project in Ibaraki Prefecture.

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DPJ's Kano denies link to scam despite ex-secretary's arrest

TOKYO, Japan - Michihiko Kano, a vice president of the main opposition Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), speaks to reporters in the Diet building in Tokyo on Jan. 15 about the arrest of his former secretary in relation to a scandal over a public works project in Ibaraki Prefecture.

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Mandela's ex-secretary reminds world of his principles

Zelda La Grange, private secretary to the late former South African President Nelson Mandela for 19 years, speaks in an interview with Kyodo News in Johannesburg on Nov. 24, 2014. La Grange, who published a memoir in June after his death, says she will continue to spread Mandela's principles to the world. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Hatoyama's ex-secretary given suspended sentence over funds

TOKYO, Japan - Keiji Katsuba (L), a former state-financed secretary of Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama, gets into a taxi in front of the Tokyo District Court in Tokyo on April 22, 2010, after being sentenced by the court to two years in prison, suspended for three years, for falsifying political funds reports at the prime minister's fund management bodies. (Kyodo)

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Hatoyama's ex-secretary given suspended sentence over funds

TOKYO, Japan - Keiji Katsuba, a former state-financed secretary of Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama, leaves the Tokyo District Court in Tokyo on April 22, 2010, after being sentenced by the court to two years in prison, suspended for three years, for falsifying political funds reports at the prime minister's fund management bodies. (Kyodo)

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Mandela's ex-secretary warns of hostility in S. Africa

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa - Zelda La Grange, private secretary to former South African President Nelson Mandela for 19 years, speaks in an interview with Kyodo News in Johannesburg on Nov. 24, 2014. La Grange said South Africa nowadays is filled with animosity and that society has failed to learn from the late leader's examples. (Kyodo)