月: 2017年7月

1. People in Japan are marking their first anniversary of a mass killing at a care home for the disabled just outside Tokyo.
2. Analysis of navigation records by the Japan Coast Guard indicates that a U.S. Aegis destroyer should have taken action to avoid a collision in an accident that occurred south of Tokyo last month.
3. A senior health ministry official has asked contractors for the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics to place priority on worker safety and prevent excessive workloads.

1. The operator of the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant has released video footage of what is likely to be melted fuel debris.
2. Japanese police says the country is facing a growing threat from the WannaCry ransomware, the virus that wreaked havoc on computer systems around the world in May.
3. Japan’s Transport Ministry has asked the U.S. Transportation Security Administration to tighten airport security inspections.

1. Japan’s ruling coalition parties are trying to revamp the Cabinet following a setback in a local election in northern Japan.
2. Heavy rain in northern Japan is forcing tens of thousands of people to evacuate their homes.
3. Japan’s foreign minister says the government will invite experts from various countries to a nuclear disarmament meeting to be held in Japan later this year.

1. The operator of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant says a robotic survey in one of its damaged reactors found what is likely to be fuel debris piling up at the bottom of its containment vessel.
2. NHK has learned that U.S. officials have detected an unusual amount of activity involving a North Korean submarine that is in the Sea of Japan.
3. Tens of thousands of people in Akita Prefecture in northern Japan have been ordered to evacuate due to heavy rainfall.

1. Engineers at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant are working to scrap the facility’s damaged reactors. For the first time, they’ve found what’s likely to be fuel debris in one of them.
2. The Japanese prime minister has asked the British foreign secretary for Britain’s cooperation to bring the economic partnership agreement between Japan and the European Union into effect at an early date.
3. The White House announced on Friday that Press Secretary Sean Spicer will resign next month.

1. Chinese prosecutors say they have indicted former mayor of the northeastern city of Tianjin on bribery charges.
2. The second round of talks to negotiate Britain’s terms for leaving the European Union ended without concrete progress.
3. A magnitude 6.7 earthquake has struck off southwestern Turkey in the Aegean Sea.

1. The United States is bracing for the possibility of another ballistic missile launch by North Korea.
2. Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai has criticized China for its treatment of human rights activist and Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo, who died last week.
3. Policymakers at the Bank of Japan have decided to continue with their easing program in a bid to achieve a 2-percent inflation target.

1. A senior U.S. military official says North Korea’s most recent missile launch shows the country now has the range to hit the United States, but it lacks the necessary guidance technology.
2. Senior lawmakers from Japan and the United States have agreed to enhance cooperation to increase pressure on North Korea.
3. Officials at Narita airport, near Tokyo, have placed traps to catch highly poisonous fire ants.

1. U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called for the implementation of the Paris climate accord, saying that climate change poses a far-reaching threat.
2. Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida says Japan will contribute 1 billion dollars by 2018 to combat poverty and hunger in the world.
3. Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has expressed his intention to speed up the establishment of a Muslim autonomous region on the country’s southern island.

1. South Korea’s government has proposed holding inter-Korean talks between military officials on Friday.
2. Japanese authorities will expand their search for poisonous fire ants following recent discoveries of the insect at ports and elsewhere in the country.
3. Hundreds of people were taken to hospitals across Japan with symptoms of heatstroke on Sunday, as the intense hot weather continues.