投稿者: tomoyasu

1. A powerful storm has passed over Japan’s main island, causing damage in Tokyo and surrounding areas. Authorities say the risks are not over. Tropical Storm Chan-hom has since been reclassified as a tropical depression. Atmospheric conditions are expected to remain highly unstable.

2. The death toll from a powerful earthquake that rattled Colombia on Monday has passed 180, with emergency workers racing against time to find more survivors among the rubble. The magnitude-7.4 quake hit at around 7:30 a.m. on Monday local time, with the focus in the country’s west. The violent shaking collapsed buildings over a wide area, including around the epicenter and the southwest. The United Nations says 182 people have died, 195 are unaccounted for, and more than 2,500 have been injured.

3. The former president of Japanese auto giant Toyota Motor, Okuda Hiroshi, died on Saturday. He was 93 years old. Okuda, who was from Mie Prefecture in central Japan, joined what used to be Toyota’s sales company in 1955. The company later merged with the manufacturing arm of Toyota to become Toyota Motor. In 1995, Okuda became the first person outside the founding family to become president of the company.

1. Japan’s domestically-made GPS satellite Michibiki was successfully placed into orbit on Tuesday morning. An H3 rocket carrying the Michibiki No. 7 satellite lifted off from the Tanegashima Space Center in the southwestern Japanese prefecture of Kagoshima shortly after 4 a.m., Japan time.

2. People in Japan’s Kumamoto Prefecture are recovering from a massive earthquake almost two weeks ago. They must also cope with scorching temperatures, but help is at hand from a growing number of volunteers.

3. Thirteen people were killed and more than 30 were injured in Russia on Monday amid Ukrainian drone attacks on petroleum facilities. The mayor of Nizhnekamsk — a city in Russia’s Tatarstan republic — wrote on social media that 13 people, including a child, were killed and over 30 were injured when Ukrainian drones hit industrial facilities and residential areas.

1. An NHK poll shows that the approval rate for Japanese Prime Minister Takaichi Sanae’s Cabinet fell 5 points from last month to 53 percent, the lowest since it was inaugurated last year. The disapproval rate rose 6 points to 33 percent.

2. A tropical storm is taking an unusual western course and expected to approach the eastern Japanese regions surrounding Tokyo and make landfall on Tuesday. Tropical Storm Chan-hom will bring heavy rain and gusty winds to eastern and northeastern Japan on Tuesday.

3. About 40 babies, aged six months to two and a half years, have taken part in a crying sumo contest in Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan. People gathered for the contest in Date City on Sunday. The event is held to pray for the healthy growth of children.

1. A large typhoon’s storm zone has engulfed Japan’s southwestern islands. Weather officials are warning of violent winds, high waves, landslides and other storm-related disasters. The Japan Meteorological Agency says that as of 5 a.m. Friday, Typhoon Dolphin was over waters 140 kilometers east-southeast of Okinoerabu Island and believed to be moving west at 20 kilometers per hour.

2. The Japanese Finance Ministry has revealed the government and the Bank of Japan spent a record single-day amount to support the yen on April 30.　The outlay of more than 6.2 trillion yen, or about 40 billion dollars, was the most since such data became available in 1991.

3. More than 36,000 households in Japan’s Kumamoto Prefecture are still without water 10 days after a massive earthquake struck the region. The water supply is not expected to be fully restored until the end of this month.Prefectural officials say the quake caused water outages for as many as 108,000 households at one point. They say the supply is gradually being restored, but water remains cut off for about 36,880 households in the cities of Yatsushiro and Uki and the towns of Hikawa and Kosa.

1. Hiroshima held its annual peace ceremony on Thursday, marking 81 years since the atomic bombing. People across Japan are taking time to pause and remember the victims. Hiroshima fell silent at 8:15 a.m., the same minute the US dropped the bomb in 1945.The heat and radiation from the blast destroyed the city, killing an estimated 140,000 people by the end of the year. Many who survived suffer from cancer and other diseases related to radiation exposure.

2. Two Ukrainian artists have painted the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on a store shutter to express fears of a nuclear attack on their country. Anastasiia Merezhko and her husband Maksym Rybalko are both painters living in Ukraine. Last month, they painted a crying girl and a mushroom cloud on the shutter of a vacant store in the capital Kyiv.

3. The Kumamoto prefectural government says it has confirmed 38 deaths from the powerful earthquake on July 28. It also says about 6,900 people are staying at evacuation shelters in the prefecture.

1. Japanese weather officials are warning that there is a possibility of further strong earthquakes occurring over the next week or so in quake-stricken Kumamoto Prefecture.

2. A powerful typhoon is expected to approach the Okinawa and Amami regions in southern Japan. The Japan Meteorological Agency says Typhoon Dolphin was located south of Japan as of 3 a.m. on Wednesday, and traveling west at a speed of about 20 kilometers per hour.

3. Reuters news agency says the US Army has used up much of its stockpile of highly accurate long-range missiles during its five-month war with Iran, raising concerns about readiness for future conflicts.

1. A zoo in Tokyo says three lions have died. Veterinarians suspect they had heatstroke.　In mid-July, 10 out of the 16 lions at Tama Zoological Park fell ill, with some unable to stand and others losing their appetites.Although staff tried to treat the animals by cooling their bodies and administering medication, a three-year-old female died on July 28. She was followed by an 11-year-old female on July 31 and a 15-year-old female on August 2.

2. A major beverage maker has started selling bottled mineral water without labels in some vending machines in Tokyo. Coca-Cola Japan says the aim is to reduce plastic waste. Product information is now printed on the bottle caps instead.

3. Hundreds of people from Japan and South Korea have marched through the streets of Tsushima City, Nagasaki Prefecture, to recreate a procession of Korean envoys sent to Japan centuries ago. During the Edo period, these diplomatic missions were sent to Japan 12 times, traveling via Tsushima to and from the city of Edo, which later became Tokyo.The parade has been held since 1980 to promote friendship between Japan and South Korea.

1. Temperatures surpassed 40 degrees Celsius in Japan’s western prefecture of Kumamoto on Monday, breaking prefectural heat records. A magnitude 7.1 earthquake struck the area last week. Officials advise people there to watch out for heatstroke and the possibility of more quakes.

2. US President Donald Trump says talks to end the conflict with Iran are set to begin on Monday. This comes after he canceled what he called planned major strikes against the country.

3. Japan’s finance minister says the ministry stepped into the currency market last week to buy the Japanese yen in coordination with the US Department of the Treasury. The joint intervention is believed to be behind a sharp 5-yen jump in the Japanese currency against the dollar in New York trading last week. The move pushed the yen to its strongest in about two-and-a-half months from levels near a 40-year low.

1. Communities across southwestern Japan face a long road to recovery after this week’s massive earthquake. Authorities say the death toll could now stand at 36. The figure is still being verified.

2. US media outlets reported on Friday that the US administration of President Donald Trump is planning to launch, together with Israel, strikes on energy infrastructure in Iran as soon as this weekend.

3. US President Donald Trump has signaled a hesitant position on whether to allow Ukraine to produce interceptor missiles used in the Patriot air defense system.

1. Japan’s Prime Minister Takaichi Sanae has confirmed that 30 people have died following the series of earthquakes in the Kyushu region. That number includes those under investigation for disaster-related causes.

2. A dangerous heatwave is expected to continue on Thursday across wide areas of Japan, with temperatures reaching 39 degrees Celsius in some parts. Areas affected by Tuesday’s devastating earthquake in Kumamoto Prefecture in the southwest of the country are among those likely to experience scorching conditions.

3. An expert in disaster medicine is urging people staying in their cars after Tuesday’s strong earthquake in Kumamoto Prefecture, southwestern Japan, to take measures to prevent a so-called economy-class syndrome.