月: 2022年9月

1.Russian President Vladimir Putin will officially annex four regions of Eastern Ukraine, after holding a series of widely condemned referendums. Putin says he will sign documents formalizing the annexation of the four occupied regions on Friday. The areas being taken by Russia have been fully or partially occupied for months.
2.US President Joe Biden has criticized Russia for moving ahead with its plan to annex four eastern Ukrainian regions. Biden stated on Thursday that the United States will never recognize Russia’s “claims on Ukraine sovereign territory.” He said, “This so-called referenda was a sham – an absolute sham.” He added that the results were “manufactured in Moscow.”
3.Russian President Vladimir Putin says all mistakes made during the partial mobilization of reservists for the military operation in Ukraine should be corrected. He said people suffering from chronic illness and those who are past conscription age have been called up. He said all mistakes need to be corrected and people who were called up without appropriate reasons should be returned home.

1.The leaders of Japan and China have stressed the importance of developing bilateral ties for a new era as their countries marked 50 years since normalizing diplomatic relations. Japan’s Prime Minister Kishida Fumio and Chinese President Xi Jinping exchanged messages on the 50th anniversary on Thursday.
2.The US space agency NASA has released footage of the aftermath of its first-ever planetary defense test, designed to see whether asteroids and other celestial bodies can be prevented from colliding with the Earth. NASA on Monday crashed a 570-kilogram spacecraft into Dimorphos, an asteroid with a diameter of roughly 160 meters located about 11 million kilometers away from Earth. The test’s aim was to see whether the impact could change the asteroid’s orbit.
3.Japan’s Lower House Speaker Hosoda Hiroyuki has admitted attending gatherings hosted by a group related to the controversial former Unification Church. Hosoda made the admission in a comment released through his office on Thursday. He had been quiet on the matter despite reports that he had attended such meetings and calls from the opposition to explain himself.

1.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has called Russia’s referendums in occupied territories a “brutal violation” of the UN Charter and an attempt to steal the territory of another state. He called for Russia to be excluded from all international organizations.
2.Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio is holding a third day of meetings with foreign dignitaries who are in Tokyo for the state funeral of former Prime Minister Abe Shinzo. Kishida held separate talks with six world leaders on Wednesday morning.
3.Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud has been named as the kingdom’s new prime minister. The Saudi government announced on its state-run news agency on Tuesday that King Salman bin Abdulaziz had ordered a cabinet reshuffle and appointed his son, Crown Prince Mohammed, to replace him as prime minister.

1.People in Japan have been placing flowers on altars to honor former Prime Minister Abe Shinzo since Tuesday morning. Two altars have been set up at Kudanzaka Park, which is located near Nippon Budokan in central Tokyo. Abe’s state funeral will be held at Nippon Budokan on Tuesday afternoon.
2.People in Japan are bidding a final farewell to the country’s longest-serving prime minister at his state funeral. Abe Shinzo was shot and killed during a political rally in July. More than 4,000 people have gathered at the Nippon Budokan arena in central Tokyo. Prime Minister Kishida Fumio, along with the heads of the Upper and Lower Houses, as well as the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, are attending. Former Prime Minister Suga Yoshihid3e is due to deliver a eulogy on behalf of Abe’s friends.
3.Abe’s state funeral is expected to be an important one for Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio on the world stage. Some 700 foreign dignitaries and ambassadors are attending. The prime minister is meeting with about 40 of them.

1.Russian protests continued across the country against a partial mobilization of reservists announced by President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday. Videos posted on social media show people confronting police in Makhachkala in the southern republic of Dagestan on Sunday. The protesters include women chanting “no to war” and “no to mobilization.”
2.Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio is holding a series of separate talks with foreign dignitaries visiting Japan for Tuesday’s state funeral of former Prime Minister Abe Shinzo. About 40 meetings are scheduled over the three days through Wednesday.
3.Japanese automaker Mazda is in talks to end production at a joint venture in Russia’s Far East. The company says the war in Ukraine has made the plant unsustainable. Mazda and the Russian automaker Sollers set up their joint venture in Vladivostok in 2012 to assemble SUVs and other cars for the Russian market using parts shipped from Japan. They produced about 29,000 vehicles last year.

1.The yen has rallied against the dollar after Japanese authorities intervened in the currency market. It’s the first time in 24 years that Japan has waded into the currency market to buy yen—which briefly climbed back to the 140 level. The dramatic move came hours after the yen had tumbled to the upper 145-yen level against the greenback.
2.Japanese weather officials say a tropical storm has formed over the sea to the south of Japan. The Meteorological Agency says Tropical Storm Talas was located about 300 kilometers off Kochi Prefecture in western Japan at 9 a.m. local time on Friday.
3.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has strongly condemned Russia for moving ahead with plans to hold referendums in parts of Ukraine that it controls. Pro-Russian separatists in the eastern regions of Donetsk and Luhansk, southeastern region of Zaporizhzhia and Kherson in the south, plan to hold votes on joining Russia starting Friday through Tuesday.

1.Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio and US President Joe Biden have confirmed that they will work together to reform the UN Security Council. The two leaders are in New York for the UN General Assembly.
2.Russian President Vladimir Putin has resisted ordering the country’s people into military service to reinforce his troops in Ukraine. But he has ratcheted up the war effort, announcing plans to call up 300 thousand reservists.
3.Protesters are taking to the streets across Russia after President Vladimir Putin announced a partial mobilization of military reservists on Wednesday. In central Moscow, security forces detained demonstrators shouting anti-war and anti-mobilization slogans and shoved them into vehicles.

1.Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has said that he had signed a decree on partial mobilization beginning on Wednesday to bolster forces in Ukraine. Putin made the announcement in a televised address to the nation on the day. He accused Western countries of trying to weaken, divide and ultimately destroy Russia.
2.China has urged efforts toward a peaceful end to the fighting in Ukraine, after pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine unilaterally decided to hold referendums on joining Russia. China’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin told reporters on Wednesday that China respects the sovereignty and territorial integrity of all countries.
3.A panel of experts at Japan’s health ministry has expressed concerns over a possible simultaneous outbreak of seasonal influenza and COVID-19 this autumn or later. The experts proposed on Wednesday that necessary measures be taken on the assumption that the flu may spread earlier than usual and prevail along with coronavirus infections.

1.British citizens continue to pay their respects to the late Queen Elizabeth a day after her state funeral. The funeral was held at Westminster Abbey in central London on Monday. Her coffin was laid to rest next to her late husband Prince Philip at St. George’s Chapel of Windsor Castle, near London. The castle was her home in her later years.
2.Concerns are growing again over nuclear safety in Ukraine following reports of a Russian missile strike near a nuclear power plant in the country’s south. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in a social media post on Monday that a missile fell 300 meters from the South Ukraine Nuclear Power Plant in the Mykolaiv region, causing a short-term power outage.
3.The price hikes hitting Japanese consumers how no signs of abating. One supermarket in Tokyo is planning more price hikes from October. The retailer in Koto Ward has raised prices for about half of the products in the store since spring, including essentials such as noodles, bread, and cooking oil.

1.Japan’s Emperor has attended a reception hosted by Britain’s King Charles III ahead of the state funeral for Queen Elizabeth II. Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako are in London to attend the funeral of Britain’s longest-serving Queen.
2.Severe Tropical Storm Nanmadol is making its way up western Japan, bringing violent winds to almost all of Kyushu and parts of the nearby Chugoku and Shikoku regions.
3.US President Joe Biden has indicated that US forces would defend Taiwan in the event of an unprecedented attack by China. Asked if, unlike Ukraine, US forces would defend Taiwan in the event of a Chinese invasion, Biden responded “yes.”