日: 2021年1月26日

1. Chinese President Xi Jinping has warned political and business leaders from around the world about a “new Cold War.” Xi delivered a speech at a virtual event for the World Economic Forum on Monday.                                                                                                                                                                  2. U.S. climate envoy John Kerry has impressed upon global leaders that the United States will make an all-out effort to address climate change. Kerry referred to the U.S. absence from the Paris Agreement under the former administration.  He said, “with humility for the absence of the last four years” the U.S. will “do everything in our power to make up for it.”                                              3.The White House press secretary says the United States is in “serious competition” with China, and that President Joe Biden’s administration will consult U.S. allies in defining its approach to Beijing.

1. About 200 people who contracted the coronavirus have died at home and places other than hospitals across Japan after their condition suddenly worsened.                                                                                          2. Japan’s major restaurant chains saw a record fall in sales last year due to the pandemic as people refrained from eating out and many businesses closed temporarily or shortened their opening hours. The Japan Food Service Association says sales fell by just over 15 percent from a year earlier.                              3. An event to promote fish caught off Japan’s Fukushima Prefecture ahs been held ahead of the tenth anniversary of the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.