日: 2019年12月30日

 

1. Monday marks one year since the Trans-Pacific Partnership came into effect. Japan has seen a change in the volume of both imports and exports.
2. Japan’s defense minister has visited Oman to explain a plan to use an Omani port to provide supplies for a Japanese Self-Defense Force ship.
3. Taiwan’s president has said in her election pledge that she will not let the island become the next Hong Kong.

 

1. North Korea’s state-run media has reported that a plenary meeting of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party was held on Saturday with its leader Kim Jong Un present.

2. Japan’s defense minister has inspected a Self-Defense Force unit in the East African nation of Jibouti following Cabinet approval of an SDF mission in the Middle East.

3. A vehicle loaded with explosives has blown up in the Somali capital of Mogadishu on Saturday, killing more than 70 people.

 

 

1. Iran has begun joint naval exercises with China and Russsia in the Gulf of Oman and the northern Indian Ocean.

2. China’s market regulator has fined the local unit of Toyota Motor about 12.5 million dollars, violating anti-trust laws.

3. The Tokyo Metropolitan Government has released a basic strategy to reduce by 2050 greenhouse gases by 100 percent.

 

1. Japan’s Cabinet has endorsed a plan to send a Self-Defense Force ships and planes to the Middle East.

2. North Korea’s state-run media sharply increased its coverage of leader Kim Jong Un’s military-related inspections this year.

3. A South Korean court has dismissed a request by prosecutors for a warrant to arrest former justice minister Cho Kuk.

 

1. Japan Post group firms are discussing candidates fr their new top executives as the current presidents are set to resign.
2. A senior Russian economics official has informed President Vladimir Putin that it will be difficult to meet the government’s growth target of 3 percent.

3 .A group of Islamic extremists has attacked a military base in Burkina Faso. Thirty-one women are among the dead.