1. This year’s Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to an NGO, International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, or ICAN.
2. The United Nations’ aviation agency has strongly condemned North Korea for its continued launches of ballistic missiles, saying the actions seriously threaten the safety of international civil aviation.
日: 2017年10月7日
October 6, Friday, 2017 (2:00 p.m.) Read by Ms. Eriko Kojima and Ms. Sara Macdonald
1. Japan-born British author Kazuo Ishiguro has won this year’s Nobel Prize in Literature.
2. Survivors of the 1945 atomic bombings in Japan have handed U.N. officials the signatures of more than 5 million people urging all countries to join a U.N. treaty that bans nuclear weapons.
3. U.S. investigators suspect that the man who gunned down scores of concertgoers in Las Vegas on Sunday may have plotted similar attacks in Chicago and elsewhere.
October 5, Thursday, 2017 (2:00 p.m.) Read by Ms. Yuka Matsumoto and Ms. Eriko Kojima
1. Russia’s Foreign Ministry says Japanese officials are likely to conduct a second round of surveys on disputed islands for joint economic activity later this month.
2. U.S. President Donald Trump has met police officers and people who were wounded in the deadly shooting in Las Vegas on Sunday.
3. NHK has learned that Japanese auto maker Nissan Motor allowed temporary workers without proper training or qualifications to conduct final inspections of vehicles at the company’s factories.