月: 2017年7月

1. Record rain falls in southwestern Japan has prompted officials to issue emergency warnings.
2. Japanese Foreign Minister Fumiko Kishida says ministers from Japan and the European Union have agreed on a broad deal on an Economic Partnership Agreement.
3. U.N. Security Council members have failed to reach an agreement on how to respond to North Korea which announced it had succeeded in its first test-launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile.

1. The United States has strongly condemned North Korea’s launch of an “intercontinental ballistic missile.”
2. Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe says he plans to confirm with U.S. and South Korean leaders that they will increase pressure on North Korea.
3. NHK has learned that Japan and the European Union are expected to reach a framework agreement on a free trade deal after settling almost all sticky points.

1. Japan’s Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said a ballistic missile was launched from North Korea’s western coast around 9:39 a.m. Japan Time.
2. Severe tropical storm Nanmadol is lashing the western Japanese region of Kyushu with heavy rains.
3. Japan and the European Union will hold another round of ministerial-level meetings this week to discuss a proposed Economic Partnership Agreement.

1. Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike’s new local party and allies scored a landslide victory in Sunday’s metropolitan assembly election.
2. Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and U.S. President Donald Trump have agreed to hold a 3-party summit with South Korea this week to discuss North Korea.
3. Business confidence among large Japanese manufacturers has improved for the 3rd quarter in a row.

1. An international chemical weapons watchdog has concluded that the highly toxic nerve gas sarin was used in an April attack in northwestern Syria.
2. Top negotiators from Japan and the European Union have failed to find common ground for an Economic Partnership Agreement on Japanese automobiles and European dairy products.
3. Voters are going to the polls Sunday to choose representatives for the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly.

1. U.S. President Donald Trump and South Korean President Moon Jae-in have held their first summit. They have agreed to increase pressure on North Korea.
2. Chinese President Xi Jinping has warned against an independence movement in Hong Kong, saying no activity that might threaten national sovereignty will be tolerated.
3. A Japanese delegation has completed a feasibility study for proposed joint economic activities on Russian-held islands claimed by Japan.

1. South Korea’s president has sought understanding from U.S. congressional leaders about a delay in starting full-fledged operation of an advanced U.S. missile defense system in his country.
2. China’s leader Xi Jinping, who is on his first visit to Hong Kong as president, has lauded the region’s senior officials for curbing pro-independence activity.
3. Three former executives of the operator of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant have pleaded not guilty over the March 2011 accident.

1. Japanese government officials say it may be difficult to hold a three-way summit with the leaders of China and South Korea in Tokyo next month.
2. Hong Kong police have arrested pro-democracy protesters who staged a sit-in ahead of the Chinese leader’s first visit to the city since taking office.
3. North Korea has vowed to impose the death penalty against former South Korean President Park Geun-hye, whom it accuses of planning to assassinate North Korean
leader Kim Jong Un.

1. Japan’s defense minister has retracted a remark suggesting that the Self-Defense Forces support a specific candidate in the Tokyo metropolitan assembly election.
2. A second draft of a legally binding nuclear ban treaty has been presented to negotiators at a U.N. conference in New York.
3. The European Union’s police agency says a massive cyberattack has affected government offices and companies mainly in Europe.