日: 2021年7月18日

1. International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach received a cold welcome from people who oppose the Tokyo Games during his visit to Hiroshima on Friday. He visited the city to meet survivors of the atomic bombing.
2.A member of the Ugandan Olympic team has gone missing in a western Japanese city where the team is holding a training camp ahead of the Tokyo Games. Officials of Izumisano City, Osaka Prefecture, say weightlifter Julius Ssekitoleko disappeared from a hotel. 3.An NHK survey shows that a majority of Tokyo hotels hosting overseas visitors involved in the Tokyo Games are concerned about enforcing anti-coronavirus rules. Arrivals of foreign media crews and other non-athletes are in full swing, one week ahead of the start of the Olympics.

1. Japan’s government has withdrawn a notice it issued last month to ask liquor vendors not to sell alcohol to bars and restaurants if they fail to comply with requests to close or shorten business hours as antivirus measures.
2.International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach has told Tokyo Governor Koike Yuriko that Tokyo Games participants will pose no risk of coronavirus infection for others. 3. The Japanese government says that nearly 80 percent of the elderly in the country have received at least one shot of a coronavirus vaccine so far, and more than half of them have been fully vaccinated with two shots.

1. A long-standing territorial dispute between Japan and Russia persists over four Russian-controlled islands. The Japanese government maintains that the islands were illegally occupied after World War II. Former Japanese residents of the islands are allowed to visit the islands without visas under a three-decade long exchange program between Japanese and Russian citizens. But due to the pandemic, visits have been put on hold. Given the current circumstances, some Russians living on one of the four islands have been looking after a Japanese cemetery.
2. Ohtani Shohei’s success on the diamond is echoing beyond the ball park. His example is attracting new fans to the sport and inspiring people back home in Japan.
3.Indonesia has seen more coronavirus cases than anywhere else in Southeast Asia…including a new one-day record of over 54,000 on Wednesday. The government is working to boost the vaccination rate from the current 8 percent to all eligible people by March next year. And it is being joined by businesses eager to keep the economy moving forward.