Bush, Fukuda lay out goals for G-8 summit in Japan

TOYAKO, Japan (AP) - Global challenges like soaring oil prices and the Earth's rising temperature await President Bush at a summit of top industrialized nations, but first he set out to soothe emotions on a sensitive Japanese issue that's entangled in the nuclear standoff with North Korea. Bush touched down in Japan on Sunday, his 62nd birthday, and was flying aboard the Marine One presidential helicopter to the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido for his eighth and final Group of Eight summit. His first meeting is with Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda. The Japanese government is a key player in the six-party negotiations that led to North...

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