CORRECTED - CORRECTED-(OFFICIAL)-PRESS DIGEST - Japan - July 8

(Corrects Asahi headline to read ... sharply increased ... not sharply cut)

Following are some of the leading stories in the Wednesday morning editions of Japanese newspapers, as compiled by Kyodo news agency:

-- Mitsui & Co (8031.T) to procure large amount of lithium from Canada (Nikkei)

-- Japan, United States eye first talks to discuss U.S. nuclear umbrella (Yomiuri)

-- Auto insurance premiums to be sharply increased (Asahi)

-- Government studied possibility of allowing nuclear weapon-carrying U.S. vessels into Japanese ports in 1974 (Mainichi)