日: 2019年8月4日

August 4, Sunday, 2019 (2:00 p.m.) Read by Mr. Hirokazu Sakamaki and Ms. Keiko Kitagawa

  1. Police in the U.S. state of Texas have detained a suspect in a fatal mass shooting at a shopping mall in El Paso.
  2. Police in Hong Kong fired tear gas at protestors and arrested at least 20 of them as clashes continued in several spots through early Sunday.
  3. The ASEAN Regional Forum has urged the United States and North Korea to resume working-level talks on Pyongyang’s denuclearization.

August 3, Saturday, 2019 (2:00 p.m.) Read by Ms. Fumiko Konoe and Ms. Risa Shimizu

  1. Japan’s trade minister Hiroshige Seko says Japan will closely monitor South Korea’s move to remove Tokyo from its list of trusted trading partners.
  2. U.S. Secretary of Defense Mark Esper says his country will start full-fledged development of intermediate-range missiles, following the expiration of a key nuclear treaty with Russia.
  3. Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has reiterated that the Etorofu Island is Russian territory, responding to Japan’s protest against his visit to the island claimed by Japan.