日: 2019年4月2日

1. Japan’s government will send Self-Defense Force personnel on a multinational peacekeeping mission for the first time under security legislation enacted in 2015.
2. NHK has found that as many as 8,400 foreign children living in Japan may not be attending school.
3. British Parliament has again failed to agree on alternatives to the prime minister’s Brexit plan as the country’s European Union departure date draws closer.

 

1. “Reiwa” is a new era name that will be on the lips of most Japanese on Monday and will be used for years to come.

2. A Bank of Japan survey shows that sentiment among managers at large manufacturers has worsened for the first time in two quarters.

3. A revised immigration law that came into force in Japan on Monday now allows more foreign workers to enter the country amid a severe labor shortage.

 

1. The name of Japan’s new era is to be decided on Monday. Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga will announce the new name at 11:30 a.m.
2. Ukrainian voters will go to the polls on Sunday to elect a new president from a record 39 candidates.
3. Japan and the U.S. are making the final arrangements to station Japanese Air Self-Defense personnel in a liaison role at a U.S. military base unit, which monitors space.

1. In Britain, lawmakers have shot down the prime minister’s Brexit deal for a third time.
2. U.S. and Chinese trade negotiators have failed to reach an agreement in Beijing. But the two sides are expected to continue their talks in Washington next week.
3. U.S. airline safety investigators reportedly are set to blame defective flight control software for the crash of an Ethiopian Airlines plane earlier this month.

1. Japanese people now have a time for the unveiling of the name of the country’s new era, which will start when the new Emperor takes the throne on May 1.
2. Japan’s Internal Affairs and Communication Ministry says the country’s seasonally adjusted jobless rate for February stood at 2.3 percent.
3. Japanese companies operating in South Korea have urged President Moon Jae-in to take steps toward improving relations between the two countries.

1. The Japanese government plans to have its top spokesperson announce the name for the era of the nation’s new Emperor next Monday.
2. Britain’s Parliament has voted on eight options regarding the country’s departure from the European Union, but none of them won majority backing.
3. The officer in command of U.S. forces in South Korea says the military threat posed by North Korea remains unchanged.

1. A Spanish judge says the leader of an armed group that raided the North Korean embassy in Madrid last month contacted the FBI in the United States five days after the incident.
2. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has warned that the country may carry out further attacks against the Palestinian militant group Hamas in Gaza.
3. The International Olympic Committee says the head of the Japanese Olympic Committee has stepped down as an IOC member.