月: 2017年8月

1. Japan’s Defense Ministry says it is on heightened alert due to a new launch threat of ballistic missiles by North Korea.
2. Asian stock prices fell on Friday on concerns about rising tensions between the United States and North Korea.
3. Japan’s Defense Ministry is allowing the resumption of flights of the U.S. military Osprey transport aircraft in the country.

1. North Korea has warned the United States that it will complete its plan by mid-August to fire ballistic missiles toward waters off Guam.
2. Japan’s defense minister says the government is working to be fully prepared for contingencies by gathering information on North Korea.
3. U.S. secretary of defense says North Korea should end it nuclear and missile programs.

1. This week marks the 72nd anniversary of the two U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
2. Chinese authorities say at least 13 people are dead and more than 170 are injured after a magnitude 7.0 earthquake hit the southwestern province of Sichuan on Tuesday night.
3. The members of the ASEAN regional forum have urged North Korea to immediately and fully comply with U.N. Security Council resolutions.

1. North Korea’s nuclear and missile development has dominated the agenda at a major security forum in the Asia-Pacific region.
2. China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi says he was “disappointed” by remarks made by Japan’s new Foreign Minister Taro Kono during a series of regional meetings in the Philippines.
3. The U.S. Navy has given its most severe rating to a crash of an Osprey transport aircraft off Australia on Saturday.

1. A severe tropical storm is making its way to central Japan after hitting the southwestern islands over the weekend.
2. U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi have agreed to implement tougher new U.N. sanctions against North Korea.
3. The Association of Southeastern Asian Nations and China have formally approved a draft code of conduct for the South China Sea. However, it does not specify whether it is legally binding.

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.

1. U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has urged North Korea to abandon its nuclear and missile programs.
2. A U.S. government official has suggested that most areas of the United States may be within the range of an intercontinental ballistic missile North Korea said it launched on Friday.
3. The Chinese military has started operations at its first overseas support base in the eastern African country of Djibouti.