日: 2022年9月1日

1.Two-way baseball star Ohtani Shohei of the Los Angeles Angels has become the first Japanese player to hit 30 home runs in the Major League for two seasons in a row. Ohtani reached the milestone with a three-run homer in a game against the New York Yankees on Wednesday.
2.Typhoon Hinnamnor is expected to re-approach Japan’s southern prefecture of Okinawa after briefly moving away to the south. Japan’s Meteorological Agency says as of Thursday morning the violent typhoon was moving southwest at a speed of 25 kilometers per hour over waters 250 kilometers south of Miyakojima Island.
3.A team of experts from the International Atomic Energy Agency is expected to begin inspecting the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in southeastern Ukraine from Thursday. The IAEA team on Wednesday arrived in the city of Zaporizhzhia about 60 kilometers from the plant.

1.Russian media outlets have reported the death of Mikhail Gorbachev, the last
leader of the Soviet Union, as breaking news. A Russian state-run television broadcast a special program looking back on his political career and his activities after retirement.
2.Japan’s Prime Minister Kishida Fumio says he will attend lawmakers’ meetings while the Diet is out of session to further explain the significance of holding a state funeral for former Prime Minister Abe Shinzo. Kishida noted on Wednesday that Abe had assumed a heavy responsibility as the country’s longest-serving prime minister.
3.Japan’s Defense Ministry is requesting a record high budget allocation of nearly 5.6 trillion yen, or about 40 billion dollars, for next fiscal year. The ministry made the budget request on Wednesday as part of its drive to drastically enhance Japan’s defense capabilities over the next five years.