月: 2017年12月

1. The Japanese government has approved the deployment of 2 new land-based missile defense systems.
2. Japanese authorities have found 2 more bodies beneath one of the 2 wooden boats that are believed to have come from North Korea.
3. The United States has vetoed a U.S. draft resolution rejecting President Donald Trump’s move to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.

Public prosecutors in Tokyo are searching the head offices of 2 construction giants, Kajima and Shimizu corporations, in a probe into a bid-rigging scandal involving the maglev train project.
2. The United Nations Security Council is set to vote on a draft resolution that will reject the U.S. decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.
3. North Korea has denounced South Korean President Moon Jae-in for visiting China.

1. North Korea is calling for unity under its leader Kim Jong Un on the 6th anniversary of the death of his father Kim Jong Ill on Sunday.
2. Politicians and intellectuals from Japan and China have exchanged views on how to cope with North Korea.
3. Japanese astronaut Norishige Kanai is preparing to set off for the international space station on board a Russian Soyuz spacecraft.

1. U.S. and North Korea have had a hard time finding common ground at the U.N. Security Council ministerial talks on North Korea’s nuclear and missile development.
2. Palestinians have again staged protest after Friday’s prayers, as part of the ongoing response to U.S. President Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel earlier this month.
3. Japanese tax collectors are expecting to bring in the highest revenue in decades in the next fiscal year.

1. The top diplomats and defense chiefs of Japan and Britain have agreed to maximize pressure on North Korea with the aim of the North abandoning its nuclear development.
2. Japan’s prime minister has expressed concerns over human rights violations and humanitarian situations in the Rakhine State during talks with Myanmar’s president.
3. Officials at the Bank of Japan have released the quarterly Tankan survey.

1. Police in Okinawa, southern Japan, have been allowed inside a U.S. base to examine a helicopter, from which a window fell on to the grounds of an elementary school.
2. Japan’s Coast Guard says it has handled a record number of cases this year of drifting wooden boats believed to have come from the Korean Peninsula.
3. The operator of a nuclear power plant on the island of Shikoku, western Japan, is set to raise an objection to a court order not to restart a reactor at the plant.

1. A window from a U.S. military helicopter has fallen on an elementary school near a U.S. airbase in Japan’s southern prefecture of Okinawa.
2. U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has indicated a potential shift of policy, saying that the U.S. is ready to begin talks with North Korea without preconditions.
3. Japanese electronics giant Toshiba has cleared one major hurdle to recovery. Executives say they have reached an agreement with its U.S. partner Western Digital to settle a dispute over the sale of Toshiba’s chip unit.

1. Palestinians demonstrating against U.S. President Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital continue to clash with Israeli forces.
2. Japan is stepping up its crackdown on illegal fishing by foreign vessels in the country’s exclusive economic zone.
3. Another elderly parent of a Japanese citizen abducted by North Korea has died.

1. Clashes have continued across Palestine between Israeli forces and people protesting U.S. President Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
2. An atomic bomb survivor has urged all nations at the Noble Peace Prize award ceremony in Oslo to eradicate the threat of nuclear weapons.
3. Yemen’s foreign minister tells NHK that it intends to step up its offensive against rebels. It has been fighting for years.

1. Palestinians have continued demonstrating against U.S. President Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.
2. Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Kono has said Tokyo supports a 2-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
3. An atomic bomb survivor and the head of the nuclear disarmament campaign that won this year’s Nobel Peace Prize have spoken out against the use of nuclear weapons.