月: 2018年1月

1. U.S. President Donald Trump has stressed his success over tax cuts in his State of the Union address.
2. Japan’s foreign minister has stressed the need to speed up talks with China on an emergency communications system that would help prevent accidental clashes at sea and in the air.
3. A peace conference hosted by Russia that aims to end the conflict in Syria has agreed to set up a committee to draft a new constitution for the war-torn country.

1. Japan’s financial watchdog has launched a probe into all crypto-currency exchanges in the country following a major cyberheist.
2. The South Korean government says North Korea has canceled a joint cultural event to mark the upcoming PyeongChang Winter Olympics.
3. Japanese government officials say the country’s unemployment rate in December slightly worsened from the previous month.

1. Japan’s foreign minister and China’s top government officials have agreed to promote exchanges between their leaders.
2. Japan’s Financial Services Agency issued a business improvement order on Monday to a virtual currency exchange which reported the disappearance of sums worth hundreds of millions dollars.
3. Work has begun near the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in northeastern Japan to prepare an area for a new industrial site.

1. Japanese crypto-currency exchange operator Coincheck says it will reimburse customers whose assets were lost due to hacking.
2. At least 95 people were killed in a suicide bomb attack in the Afghan capital, Kabul, on Saturday.
3. Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Kono is holding talks with top Chinese officials in Beijing.

1. About 530 million dollars’ worth of crypto-currency has gone missing from a major virtual exchange in Japan due to hacking.
2. U.S. President Donald Trump has hinted that the United States may return to the Trance-Pacific Partnership free trade agreement.
3. The foreign and defense ministers of Japan and France have confirmed they will cooperate to prevent North Korea from evading economic sanctions.

1. Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has pledged to increase pressure on North Korea to help resolve the abduction of Japanese nationals by that country’s agents.
2. A U.S. science magazine has moved forward the hands of the Doomsday Clock by 30 seconds to 2 minutes to midnight.
3. U.S. President Donald Trump has indicated a possible return to the Tans-Pacific Partnership free trade agreement.

1. U.S. President Donald Trump has left for the World Economic Forum, carrying his “America First” agenda to Davos, Switzerland.
2. The head of a distinguished anti-nuclear group called abolition and elimination of nuclear weapons the only solution.
3. The U.S. government has added individuals and firms based in countries including China and Russia to its list of sanctions targets for allegedly being involved in North Korea’s development of weapons of mass destruction.

1. Japan’s Meteorological Agency continues to warn people not to approach the volcano that erupted on Tuesday in Gunma Prefecture, north of Tokyo.
2. North Korea’s ambassador to the Conference on Disarmament has denounced the United States’ hostile policies.
3. Investigators probing Russia’s alleged meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election have interviewed Attorney General Jeff Sessions.

1. A 3-day U.S. government shutdown has ended after President Donald Trump signed a temporary funding bill.
2. The U.S. vice president has his country relocate its embassy in Israel to Jerusalem by the end of next year, triggering strong opposition from the Palestinians.
3. Japanese weather officials say a volcano has erupted north of Tokyo. An avalanche struck a nearby ski resort almost simultaneously.

1. Japan’s ordinary session of the Diet has convened on Monday, with the focus on key bills such as the budget and reforming ways of work.
2. Turkey has launched a ground operation against the Kurdish militia in northern Syria.
3. The death toll has risen at least to 18 in a hotel attack by an armed group in the Afghanistan capital Kabul.