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The rumor making the rounds in Tokyo on this case is that Attorney General Holder's office, along with the State Dept. have asked the US Govt. to make an outreach to the Government of Japan, to ask them to play the crime down for the sake of "US-Japan" relations and that it is a touchy news story, and that they will both benefit by having it toned down. Will be interesting to see if the Japanese media follows suit. I doubt it. Also, my predition: Expect either Revs. Jackson or Sharpton in town here (Tokyo) very soon to try for a "rescue of the brothers", though that will be like butting into a brick wall with strict Japanese authorities and these guy's asses are now in the custody of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police and the Ministry of Justice on Japanese soil under Japanese law. No visiting, rabble rousing, shakedown artist American community organizer is going to have much power over that in Tokyo. Generally they are rather independent and somewhat paparazzi-ist, so I doubt they can keep too much of a lid on this, like they might be able to do back stateside. Thing is, probably most of the stories and gory details and trial particulars, will come out only in Japanese. CNN is not going to send a reporter to cover this one 24/7. They will do the cursory overview to protect themselves from charges of cover up, other than that, well, DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE. Can we move on now back to Trayvon-Zimmerman!!?? / sarc