Japan's Defence Minister Fumio Kyuma speaks during a news conference in Tokyo July 3, 2007. . Kyuma resigned on Tuesday over remarks that appeared to accept the 1945 atomic bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe quickly tapped a woman for the post to try to quell the furore ahead of an election this month. REUTERS/Yuriko Nakao (JAPAN)