月: 2017年3月

1. Saturday marks 6 years since the massive earthquake and tsunami hit northeastern Japan, triggering the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident. Reconstruction efforts in disaster-hit areas have been delayed, and many people are still living in temporary and other housing as evacuees.
2. Japanese government officials say a Japanese peacekeeping operation in South Sudan will be replaced by humanitarian aid and other assistance.

1. South Korea’s president is being officially removed from office.
2. North Korea’s military says Monday’s simultaneous ballistic missile launches simulated attacking U.S. bases in Japan.
3. Russia’s presidential spokesperson has rejected U.S. accusations that Moscow violated a bilateral nuclear arms treaty.

1. The U.N. Security Council has reached an agreement to ensure a steady implementation of its sanctions against North Korea, and to take fresh action pending further developments.
2. Japan’s government says one of the ballistic missiles launched by North Korea on Wednesday came the closest ever to the country’s coast.
3. An NHK survey of former residents of Fukushima who fled the 2011 nuclear disaster has found that dozens of children were bullied at their new schools.

1. The U.N. Security Council has condemned North Korea’s latest ballistic missile test, denouncing it as a clear challenge to the international community.
2. U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is to visit Japan, South Korea and China next week to discuss North Korea’s nuclear and missile programs.
3. The Japanese government has committed funds to a U.N. body to step up anti-terrorism measures ahead of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics.

1. Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and U.S. President Donald Trump have agreed to hold an early meeting of their defense and foreign ministers to discuss the latest missile launches by North Korea.
2. U.S. President Trump has signed a new executive order aimed at strengthening immigration controls as an anti-terrorism measure.
3. Diplomatic relations between North Korea and Malaysia are quickly deteriorating as the 2 countries have ordered each country’s ambassadors out of their countries.

1. Japan’s Defense Ministry is conducting a detailed analysis of North Korea’s missile launches and it has sent aircraft to search for debris.
2. A North Korean man is demanding an apology and compensation from Malaysia for what he claims was painful police questioning he suffered while in custody in Malaysia.
3. Japan’s Emperor and Empress have offered their condolences for the late King Bhumibol Adulyadej in Bangkok.

1. China has lowered its economic growth target to about 6.5 percent for 2017 from last year’s range of 6.5 to 7 percent.
2. Malaysia’s Foreign Ministry is expelling North Korean ambassador Kang Chol over the killing of Kim Jong Nam, the half-brother of the North’s leader Kim Jong Un.
3. Japan’s Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko are flying to Thailand on Sunday to pay tribute to the late Thai king.

1. Malaysia’s government has suggested it may be difficult to detain a North Korean suspect who is believed to be at the North’s embassy. Malaysian police have obtained a warrant in connection with the killing of the half-brother of the North’s leader, Kim Jong Un.
2. U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is arranging his first official visit to Japan. The visit may be set for March 17th and 18th.

1. Malaysian police have released the only North Korean suspect held in connection with the killing of the half-brother of North Korea’s leader, citing insufficient evidence.
2. Japan’s public pension fund is set to report a record quarterly profit on Friday.
3. Japan’s Air Self-Defense Force has scrambled jets to intercept 13 Chinese military aircraft that flew near Okinawa Prefecture.

1. Japan’s opposition parties are demanding a probe into whether lawmakers were involved in a controversial land deal in Osaka.
2. A diplomatic rift between the governments of Malaysia and North Korea has deepened over the handover of the body believed to be that of Kim Jong Nam.
3. Japan’s Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko have attended a welcome banquet in the Vietnamese capital, Hanoi.