月: 2018年3月

1. Sunday marks 7 years since the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami in northeastern Japan as well as the onset of the nuclear accident at Fukushima Daiichi power plant.
2. U.S. President Donald Trump says he asked Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to help reduce the trade imbalance between the 2 nations.
3. Japanese skier Momoka Muraoka has won a bronze medal in the women’s super-G sitting category at the PyeongChang Paralympics.

1. U.S. President Donald Trump and China’s President Xi Jinping have agreed to maintain pressure and sanctions on North Korea until the country takes concrete action toward denuclearization.
2. The Winter Paralympic Games kicked off in PyeongChang, with the opening ceremony at the city’s Olympic Stadium on Friday.
3. The Syrian government has again prevented much needed medicine from being delivered to residents trapped in eastern Ghouta.

1. The head of South Korea’s national security office says U.S. President Donald Trump has agreed to meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un by May.
2. U.S. President Donald Trump has officially approved steep tariffs on steel and aluminum imports from around the world.
3. Trade ministers of the 11 member countries of the Trans-Pacific Partnership have signed the free trade agreement.

1. U.S. industrial leaders and Republican lawmakers have called on the president to act with caution regarding his plan to impose steep tariffs on steel and aluminum imports.
2. Trade ministers of 11 countries will sign the Trans-Pacific Partnership on Thursday.
3. Explosive eruptions are continuing on Mount Shinmoe in southeastern Japan following its first major eruption in 7 years on Tuesday.

1. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and South Korean President Moon Jae-in are to hold a summit in late April.
2. Campaigning has begun for the U.S. mid-term congressional elections. The outcome may affect President Donald Trump’s reelection bid.
3. Japan’s Paralympic team has been welcomed to the athletes’ village in PyeongChang, South Korea.

1. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un hosted talks and a banquet for special envoys from South Korea on Monday.
2. Measures consolidating the power of President Xi Jinping are expected to be put in place at China’s National People’s Congress.
3. The delivery of aid supplies to Syria’s eastern Ghouta has started, but some medical supplies were reportedly blocked from being brought into the besieged enclave.

1. Thousands of delegates from around China are in Beijing for the start of the National People’s Congress.
2. South Korea’s President Moon Jae-in will send his special envoys to North Korea for a 2-day visit.
3. Japanese makeup artist Kazuhiro Tsuji has won this year’s Academy Award for best make-up and hairstyling.

1. A senior White House official says no countries will be excluded from planned heavy tariffs on imported steel and aluminum products.
2. North Korea has rejected a U.S. demand that the country first demonstrate its willingness to denuclearize if it wants to begin bilateral talks.
3. The United Nations and the international aid organization Doctors Without Borders have suspended aid work in northeastern Nigeria following an attack by suspected Boko Haram militants.

1. Japan’s main team has left for South Korea to participate in the PyeongChang Winter Paralympics, which opens next Friday.
2. U.S. President Donald Trump has posted a defiant Twitter message, amid global criticism of his plan to impose tariffs on steel and aluminum imports.

1. U.S. President Donald Trump says he will impose heavy tariffs on imports of steel and aluminum.
2. South Korean President Moon Jae-in is planning to send a special envoy to the North to maintain the recent engagement between the 2 Koreas.
3. Japan and Russia have failed to reach agreement on this year’s visa-free visits to 4 Russian-held islands by former Japanese residents.