月: 2017年10月

1. Political candidates and party officials across Japan are filing paperwork and launching their campaigns for the Lower House election scheduled for October 22nd.
2. North Korea is marking the 72nd anniversary of the founding of the ruling Workers’ Party, prompting countries to monitor for provocations to coincide with the milestone.
3. Japan’s space agency has successfully launched a fourth and last satellite for its own version of a global positioning system.

1. Iranian authorities say a 5-year jail sentence for espionage has been handed down to a member of Iran’s nuclear negotiating team.
2. Exactly 11 years have passed since North Korea conducted its first nuclear test.
3. Thousands of Israeli and Palestinian women have marched along the Jordan River to emphasize the importance of peace in the Middle East.

1. With just 2 days to go before the start of official campaigning for Japan’s Lower House election, it is becoming increasingly likely that the three-way race will play out in most single-seat constituencies nationwide.
2. Russian demonstrators staged nationwide protests against President Vladimir Putin on his 65th birthday.
3. Police in London say that a car accident near the Natural History Museum on Saturday that injured 11 people were not related to terrorism.

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.

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.

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.

1. Japanese opposition parties are hurrying their preparations for the Lower House election in a bid to rust power from the governing coalition led by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
2. U.S. police say the suspect in Sunday’s mass shooting in Las Vegas continued to fire for 9 minutes after the first 911 call was made.
3. U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis has explained that the Trump administration’s approach to North Korea is consistent.

1. Police investigating the mass shooting in Las Vegas say that the suspect owned more than 40 guns and that they believe the attack was premeditated.
2. U.S. President Donald Trump has condemned the deadly assault, calling it an “act of pure evil.”
3. Myanmar’s government has taken foreign diplomats on a tour of Rohingya villages in the country’s western state of Rakhine.

1. The Bank of Japan’s quarterly survey of large manufacturers has shown confidence at its highest level in 10 years.
2. Catalonia’s regional government says an overwhelming majority of voters backed independence from Spain in a referendum held on Sunday.
3. The trial of 2 women accused of killing the half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong un has begun in Malaysia.

1. North Korea has threatened to turn the United States into a sea of flames.
2. Chinese Premier Li Keqiang has stressed the Communist Party’s achievements ahead of its congress in mid-October.
3. Tensions are rising across Spain over the banned independence referendum on Sunday in the wealthy northeastern region of Catalonia.