日: 2017年8月6日

1. Tens of thousands of people gathered Sunday in Hiroshima to reflect on a tragedy that changed the course of history.
2. The United Nations Security Council has unanimously adopted new sanctions against North Korea over its test-firing of ballistic missiles.
3. Japan’s new Foreign Minister Taro Kono will visit the Philippines to attend meetings with his counterparts from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations and other countries in the region.

1. The U.S. government is to send its representative to an annual ceremony in Hiroshima to remember the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of the city for the 8th consecutive year.
2. The Association of Southeast Asian Nations opened a series of foreign ministerial talks in Manila, the Philippines, on Saturday.
3. A U.S. government commission on religious freedom has condemned what it calls the irresponsible and hostile actions taken against Chinese Uyghur Muslims in Egypt.

1. Japan’s prime minister says he had formed a new cabinet to regain the people’s trust and push forward his policies.
2. The operator of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant says the groundwater level briefly plummeted near a building that houses one of the crippled reactors.
3. Air France says it is expanding its self-imposed no-fly zone around North Korea in response to the country’s latest missile launch.

1. Japan’s prime minister has officially released the lineup of his new Cabinet.
2. U.S. President Donald Trump has signed a bill to imposed new sanctions on Russia, while criticizing it.
3. The U.S. military has test-launched an intercontinental ballistic missile in an apparent show of deterrence against North Korea.