月: 2019年6月

1. China’s President Xi Jinping has arrived in North Korea for the first day of a historic visit to Pyongyang.

2. An expert says Tuesday’s powerful earthquake that hit northern and central Japan may have been caused by unknown active faults.

3. French President Emmanuel Macron is expected to use his first visit to Japan to call for a stronger alliance between automakers, Renault and Nissan.

 

1. A magnitude-6.7 quake struck the northern part of the country late Tuesday night. No fatalities have been reported.

2. U.S. President Donald Trump has officially launched his campaign for re-election next year.

3. NHK has learned that French automaker Renault has indicated it will accept a plan to overhaul governance at alliance partner Nissan Motor.

 

 

1. At least 12 people are dead and many more are injured after a powerful earthquake struck China’s Sichuan province late Monday.

2. China’s Communist Party says the country’s president, Xi Jinping, will make an official visit to North Korea on Thursday and Friday.

3. U.S. Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan says he has authorized the deployment of about 1,000 additional troops to the Middle East.

 

1. The organizers of Sunday’s mass rally in Hong Kong say nearly two million residents took part to protest against the proposed extradition bill.

2. A Russian presidential office spokesperson says a meeting of the U.S. and Russian leaders could be prepared on the eve of the G20 summit in Osaka.

3. Police in Osaka Prefecture, western Japan, have arrested a 33-year-old man on suspicion of stabbing a police officer and stealing his loaded handgun.

 

 

1. Japan has used the G20 meeting to propose setting up an international framework for cooperative research into how to dispose of high-level radioactive waste from nuclear power plants.
2. The police officer who was stabbed in Osaka Prefecture early Sunday morning remain unconscious.
3. The Chinese State Council’s Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office has expressed support for the Hong Kong Chief Executive’s decision to suspend a proposed bill for the extradition of criminal suspects to mainland China.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1. Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe says U.S. President Donald Trump has expressed gratitude for his visit to Iran and efforts to help ease tensions between Tehran and Washington.
2. Energy and environment ministers from the Group of 20 economies have opened two-day talks. They are expected to discuss energy security and measures to reduce plastic waste.

1. The attacks on oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman have caused crude oil prices to surge in New York.

2. Ministerial negotiations between Japan and the United States have been held in Washington to hammer out a trade deal.

3. A U.S. cyber expert warns that Chinese hackers are increasing their attacks against Japanese companies.

 

1.Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is in Tehran on a mediation mission. He hopes to deescalate regional tensions caused by the United States pulling out of the 2015 nuclear deal Iran struck with world powers.

2.Hong Kong government offices remain closed on Thursday, the day after demonstrations against an extradition bill turned violent.

3.Renault Chairman Jean-Deminique Senard has expressed frustration with Nissan’s plan to review and reform its management structure.

 

1. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has left Tokyo for Tehran amid rising tensions caused by the rift between Iran and the United States.

2. U.S. President Donald Trump says he has received a letter from North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, just before the one-year anniversary of their first summit.

3. A Japanese researcher says ocean currents can carry plastic waste from Japan as far as North America.

 

 

1. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and U.S. President Donald Trump have discussed the situation in the Middle East before Abe leaves for Iran.
2. Contenders are campaigning to become the next leader of Britain’s Conservative Party. They’re presenting their ideas on withdrawing from the European Union.
3. Nissan is aiming to convince its major shareholder, Renault, to support the Japanese automaker to reform its governance system. Renault has indicated it may abstain from voting on the plan.