月: 2018年3月

1. Finance ministers and central bank governors of the Group of 20 economies have released a statement to wrap up 2 days of talks in Argentina.
2. North Korea’s state media says momentum toward change is emerging in the country’s relations with the United States.
3. The Japanese government is working to arrange a trilateral summit with China and South Korea in early May.

1. The leaders of Japan and Russia have reaffirmed cooperation on planned joint economic projects on Russia-controlled islands claimed by Japan.
2. A controversial land deal is dominating debate at the Japanese Diet. Opposition lawmakers have grilled government officials about who ordered the alteration of Finance Ministry documents related to the transaction.
3. The Group of 20 finance ministers and central bank governors are meeting in Argentina.

1. The top national security advisers of Japan, the United States and South Korea have agreed to keep applying maximum pressure on North Korea until it takes irreversible and verifiable steps toward denuclearization.
2. Russian President Vladimir Putin has secured a historical landslide victory, by winning more than 76 percent of the votes, while some opposition forces are protesting the election was leaked.
3. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says the country’s forces have taken control of the central part of Afrin, a Kurdish stronghold in northwestern Syria.

1. The foreign ministers of Japan and South Korea have agreed that their nations need to maintain maximum pressure on North Korea in order to denuclearize the country.
2. Russians are voting in a presidential election that is expected to give President Vladimir Putin a fourth term in office.
3. Former U.S. President Barack Obama will next week visit Japan for the first time since he left office.

1. Japan and the United States have agreed to continue applying maximum pressure on North Korea until it takes concrete action toward denuclearization.
2. Japanese Finance Minister Taro Aso has reiterated that he will not resign. Opposition parties are demanding that he step down to take responsibility for the ministry’s document-tampering scandal.
3. Chinese President Xi Jinping has been reelected for his second 5-year term at China’s National People’s Congress. His key ally, Wang Qishan, was elected as vice president.

1. NHK has learned that a Finance Ministry official who committed suicide in the midst of the land-deal scandal in western Japan was worried that he would be forced to take all the blame.
2. North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho has arrived in Sweden for a meeting with his Swedish counterpart.
3. The leaders of Britain, the United States, France, and Germany have jointly condemned the suspected poisoning of a former Russian spy and his daughter.

1. The United Nations Security Council has held an emergency meeting over a nerve agent attack on a former Russian spy in Britain.
2. In the U.S., Democrat Conor Lamb is holding a narrow lead in a by-election of the House of Representatives in Pennsylvania, a longtime Republican stronghold.
3. Japan’s governing Liberal Democratic Party has shown its willingness to consider summoning to the Diet a key figure in the Finance Ministry’s document tampering scandal.

1. U.S. President Donald Trump has fired Secretary of State Rex Tillerson.
2. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is insisting that he and his wife had nothing to do with a controversial sale of state-owned land to private school operator Moritomo Gakuen.
3. Former South Korean President Lee Myung-bak is at the prosecutors’ office in Seoul to face questioning over allegations of bribery and other criminal offences. Lee denies all the allegations.

1. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has told South Korea’s envoy that Japan appreciates the planned summit meetings with North Korea on possible denuclearization.
2. British Prime Minister Theresa May says it is highly likely Russia was behind the poisoning of a former spy and his daughter in England.
3. Japan’s Finance Ministry reportedly submitted tampered documents to prosecutors investigating a controversial land deal with a private school operator.

1. Japan’s Finance Ministry will admit to the Diet that alterations were made to documents on a controversial state land deal.
2. South Korean diplomats are continuing their push ahead of two landmark summits with North Korea.
3. The Chinese government has stepped up moves to suppress public concern and criticism of the constitutional amendment that solidified President Xi Jinping’s one-person rule indefinitely.