月: 2020年1月

 

1. A deadly outbreak of a new strain of the coronavirus has claimed another victim in China.
2. China’s President Xi Jinping says more measures are needed to combat a new coronavirus that is believed to be behind over 200 pneumonia cases in the country.
3. Japan’s Toshiba Corporation plans to start offering customers a next-generation encryption technology by March next year

1. Authorities in the Chinese city of Wuhan say the total number of people infected with the new coronavirus linked to a pneumonia outbreak in the city is now 62.
2. Japan’s defense minister has decided to hold a meeting with defense chiefs from Pacific island nations.
3. U.S. President Donald Trump has called the Japan-U.S. treaty of mutual cooperation and security essential. January 19th marks 60 years since the revised pact was signed.

1. A senior U.S. military official has warned of the fast pace of North Korea’s weapons development.
2. French automaker Renault says its global auto sales declined last year due to poor performance in China, Africa and the Middle East.
3. A Japanese government survey shows about 80 percent of respondents support maintaining the death penalty.

1. Friday marks 25 years since the devastating earthquake that struck Hyogo Prefecture and nearby areas in western Japan, leaving 6,434 people dead.
2. China’s GDP growth has fallen to its slowest pace in 29 years, after a two-year-long trade dispute with the U.S.
3. Authorities in the Chinese city of Wuhan have announced the second death from pneumonia suspected to have been caused by a new coronavirus.

1. The Japanese health ministry says a new strain of coronavirus has been detected in a man who visited Wuhan, China.
2. The United States and China signed a “phase one” trade deal in Washington on Wednesday.
3. Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has announced his government’s resignation after President Vladimir Putin proposed drastic political reform.

1. The foreign affairs chiefs of Japan, the United States and South Korea have discussed North Korea’s denuclearization.
2. The foreign ministers of Japan and South Korea have failed to narrow their differences over a war-time labor issue that has soured bilateral relations.
3. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has completed his three-nation Middle East tour.

1. The U.S. Treasury Department has dropped its designation of China as a currency manipulator, citing improvements in the nation’s currency practices.

2. Iran’s leaders are facing a public outcry over the shooting down of a Ukrainian passenger jet by the military.

3. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Abdubee have agreed to work together to help defuse tension in the Middle East.

 

1. Iraq’s defense ministry says rockets hit a base hosting U.S. forces, wounding four local soldiers.
2. Japan’s prime minister has met Saudi Arabia’s crown prince to discuss ways to ease political tension in the Middle East.
3. Airlines have cancelled some flights to and from the Philippines and the nearby island of Guam as ash spews into the air from a volcano near Manila.

1. Taiwan’s incumbent President Tsai Ing-wen is now headed to a second term after soundly defeating her main rival in Saturday’s presidential election.
2. Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has ordered the Iranian military to determine what caused the downing of a Ukrainian passenger jet and who is responsible for the incident.
3. Two elderly sisters of a Japanese woman abducted to North Korea nearly 40 years ago have called for her early return to Japan.

1. A patrol plane unit of the Maritime Self-Defense Force left Japan for the Middle East on Saturday to help ensure the safe navigation of commercial vessels.
2. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has left Japan on a three-nation Middle East tour amid growing tensions in the Gulf region.
3. Voting is underway in Taiwan for the presidential election. The territory’s future relationship with China is seen as one of the biggest issues.