月: 2019年4月

1. In Japan, Emperor Akihito will abdicate at the end of Tuesday – bringing the three-decade-long Heisei Era to a close.
2. Japanese government statistics from the 30 years of the Heisei Era highlight the country’s population getting smaller and greyer, and the rapid spread of the Internet.
3. Nuclear-armed countries and non-nuclear states were divided at a United Nations meeting over how to achieve nuclear disarmament.

1. Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe says he will raise the issue of reforming the World Trade Organization at the Group of 20 nations summit in Osaka.
2. Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says his country will pull out of an international treaty aimed at preventing the spread of nuclear arms.
3. About 130,000 people gathered in the streets of Hong Kong, to protest proposed revisions to its extradition rules.

1. One woman is dead and three other people are injured following a gun attack at a synagogue in California.
2. Chinese President Xi Jinping has stressed that Beijing will advance its Road and Belt initiative based on international rules.
3. Sri Lankan investigators say they suspect one of the suicide bombers in the coordinated East Sunday attacks was radicalized in Australia.

1. Japan’s prime minister says U.S. President Donald Trump has promised to cooperate fully with Japan on the issue of Japanese nationals abducted by North Korea.
2. Saturday marks the first anniversary of the Panmunjom Declaration by North and South Korean leaders toward the complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula. Since then, little progress has been made.
3. U.S. President Trump says he will pull the U.S. out of an international arms treaty.

1. North Korea’s state-run media say the country’s leader Kim Jong Un criticized the United States during his first summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
2. Former Nissan Motor chairman Carlos Ghosn has been released on bail from a Japanese detention facility for a second time.
3. Japan’s prime minister has committed to working with the European Union to strengthen the rule-based multilateral trading system promoted by the World Trade Organization.

1. The Tokyo District Court has granted bail for the second time to former Nissan Motor chairman Carlos Ghosn.
2. Investigative authorities in Sri Lanka have detained 60 national in connection with the deadly bombings in the country’s largest city of Colombo and another town in the east.
3. The leaders of Japan and Poland have agreed to strengthen their economic ties, as the Economic Partnership Agreement between Japan and the European Union took effect in February.

1. A senior Russian official has told NHK that President Vladimir Putin is considering proposing a revival of the six-party talks on Pyongyang’s nuclear program when he meets North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Thursday.
2. Sri Lanka’s government says a group that carried out six near-simultaneous bombings on Sunday may have undergone military training abroad.
3. The Japanese prime minister and the French president say they will work together in leading discussions on free trade and other issues at the G20 summit in Osaka.

1. Authorities in Sri Lanka suspect a domestic Islamic extremist group is responsible for the series of deadly bombings on Sunday.
2. The U.S. government says it will end in May the waivers that have allowed Japan and other countries to import oil from Iran without facing U.S. sanctions.
3. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has arrived in France on the first leg of his tour of Europe and North America.

1. Sri Lanka’s government says 207 people died in Sunday’s simultaneous bomb attacks on hotels and churches in the country.
2. People across Japan cast ballots on Sunday to choose local leaders and assembly members as well as two Lower House lawmakers.
3. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has left Japan for a 6-country tour in preparation for the G-20 summit in Osaka in June.

1.In Japan, voting for mayors and municipal assemblies has become the second round of local elections.

2. U.S. media say the FBI has arrested a former Marine who is also a member of a North Korean defectors group that is believed to have raided North Korea’s embassy in Spain.
3. A Chinese naval official says more than 10 countries will send warships to attend next week’s naval review in Quigdao, Shandong Province.