日: 2019年2月11日

1. Monday marks the 40th anniversary of Iran’s Islamic Revolution.
2. The United States and China have resumed trade talks in a bid to reach a deal by March 1st.
3. Japan has pledged to provide long-term assistance for the peace process on the Philippine island of Mindanao.

1. The U.S. envoy to North Korea expressed hope for a successful second U.S.-North Korea summit after meeting with Japanese and South Korean officials.
2. The number of people fleeing to other countries to escape the political turmoil in Venezuela is predicted to top five million by the end of this year.
3. Japan’s foreign minister says Japan supports the ongoing peace process in the Philippines, aimed at ending over 40 years of armed conflicts on Mindanao.

1. U.S. President Donald Trump says he will meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at the end of this month in the Vietnamese capital of Hanoi.
2. High-level trade talks between the United States and China will be held on Thursday and Friday next week.
3. Japan’s government debt has topped 1,100 trillion yen for the first time.

1. U.S. President Donald Trump says he has no plan to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping before March 1^st, the deadline for raising tariffs on Chinese goods.
2. Share prices in New York plunged on Thursday as investors are worried about the deteriorating growth outlook for the Eurozone.
3. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has ordered emergency checks within a month into cases of suspected child abuse to confirm children’s safety.

1. Documents obtained by NHK show that the leadership of the Soviet Union was prepared to offer the handover of two of the four islands claimed by Japan as its biggest concession before negotiations on normalizing diplomatic ties in the 1950s.
2. Lain American countries that are remaining neutral on the Venezuelan political crisis, such as Mexico and Uruguay, will hold an emergency meeting on Thursday in Uruguay’s capital, Montevideo.
3. The U.S. president has nominated a senior government official known for his harline stance against China as the next World Bank chief.

President Donald Trump says he will meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on February 27 and 28.

2.Russia’s defense minister has announced a plan to develop land-based intermediate-range missiles that were banned under a nuclear arms treaty that Russia and the United States intend to abandon.

3. Nissan Motor says it will convene an extraordinary shareholders’ meeting on April 8th.

 

1. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and German Chancellor Angela Merkel have agreed to bolster economic ties during talks in Tokyo.
2. Nissan Motor plans to list tens of millions of dollars in payment to former chairman Carlos Ghosn in its financial statements, due out next week.
3. The U.S.-China trade dispute is hitting the bottom line of major Japanese firms.

 

1. The mayor of the atomic-bombed Japanese city of Nagasaki has urged the United States and Russia to keep their nuclear arms treaty alive.
2. The U.S. special envoy for North Korea is visiting South Korea to lay the groundwork for the second summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
3. Japanese weather officials say heavy snow and strong winds will intensify in Japan’s norther regions.

1. Russian President Vladimir Putin says Russia will suspend the Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces Treaty with the United States.
2. Massive numbers of anti-government protesters have taken to the streets in Venezuela in a bid to oust President Nicolas Maduro from power.
3. Travel agencies in China are experiencing a surge in bookings to Japan ahead of the Lunar New Year holiday.

1. U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has announced that the United States will begin procedures to withdraw from the Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, or INF.
2. Russian authorities have seized a Japanese crab fishing boat in the Sea of Japan. They claim the vessel was illegally operating in the country’s exclusive economic zone.
3. Senior diplomats from Japan and China have agreed to work closely in an effort to arrange a visit by President Xi Jinping to Japan.