月: 2017年4月

1. White House spokesman Sean Spicer said on Wednesday the USS Carl Vinson and other ships are now heading to the Korean Peninsula.
2. North Korean officials say Japanese women who went to the North with their Korean husbands have formed a social group.
3. A global chemical weapons watchdog says the highly toxic nerve gas sarin or a similar substance was used in an attack in Syria earlier this month.

1. Japan and the United States have denounced North Korea for exploiting its people and its nuclear and missile programs. They called for increased efforts at the U.N. Security Council to address the issue.
2. Japan and the United States have agreed to promote dialogue in three areas including common strategies in trade and investment rules.
3. Japanese electronics maker Sharp says it plans to invest in Toshiba’s chip business with parent company Hon Hai Precision Industry, also called Foxconn.

1. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is meeting with U.S. Vice President Mike Pence who is now in Japan.
2. A North Korean envoy in charge of normalizing with Japan has dismissed the issue of Japanese abducted by North Korea.
3. About 70 members of a Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force engineering unit have left South Sudan after participating in a U.N. peacekeeping mission.

1. Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe says his government will cooperate with China and Russia as well as the United States and South Korea to prevent North Korea from further provocation.
2. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has claimed victory in Sunday’s landmark referendum.
3. China’s gross domestic product shows the country’s economy is continuing to improve.

1. North Korea fired a ballistic missile on Sunday, but it appears to have failed.
2. One year has passed since the most devastating earthquake occurred among a series of tremors in and around Japan’s southwestern prefecture of Kumamoto.
3. Turkey is holding a referendum on Sunday on whether to grant sweeping new powers to the president.

1. North Korea has held a military parade showcasing a new type of intermediate ballistic missile and other arsenal.
2. The U.S. government has declined to designate China as a “currency manipulator,” but will keep the country on its “monitoring list,” along with 5 other economies.

1. People in Japan’s southwestern prefecture of Kumamoto have held a ceremony to commemorate those killed in the earthquake there one year ago.
2. NHK has learned that IT giant Apple is moving to buy struggling Japanese conglomerate Toshiba’s chip business.
3. The U.S. military says it struck a stronghold of the Islamic State militant group in Afghanistan with the largest non-nuclear bomb it has ever used in combat.

1. Russia has vetoed a U.N. Security Council draft resolution condemning the suspected use of chemical weapons in Syria.
2. Top diplomats of the United States and Russia have failed to narrow differences over Syria. But they have agreed to improve bilateral ties, which are described as being the worst since the Cold War.
3. China has been edged out by the U.S. as the world’s top trader of goods.

1. U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov are to hold talks on Wednesday. This will be their first meeting since the U.S. missile strike on Syria.
2. German police say they’re working on the assumption that explosions set off near a bus carrying soccer squad Borussia Dortmund were deliberately targeting the vehicle.
3. Japanese figure skating star Mao Asada has spoken to reporters about her decision to retire from competitive skating.

1. U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis says the U.S. missile strike on a Syrian air base was a measured response to the Syrian government’s chemical weapons attack.
2. Middle Eastern foreign ministers are expectd to join the G7 meeting on Tuesday to discuss the situation in Syria.
3. Japanese figure skating star Mao Asada is retiring from competition.