TOKYO - A Japanese diplomat confirmed that Mikhail Gorbachev was alive the day after an August 1991 coup attempt by Communist Party hard-liners, becoming possibly among the first countries to get information about the safety of the Soviet Union's leader, a Japanese diplomatic document showed.
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