日: 2023年8月4日

1. Donald Trump has been indicted in connection with his efforts to overturn the 2020 election. It’s the third time in four months that the former US president has been charged criminally. The four count indictment alleges Trump conspired to defraud the US by preventing Congress from certifying President Joe Biden’s win. It says that deprived voters of their right to a fair election. 2. The organizers of the Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai have proposed a new plan to help countries and economies get their pavilions ready in time for the event. The world expo is scheduled to open in April 2025, but construction is running behind schedule.
3. Japan’s Toyota Motor has unveiled its new Land Cruiser models, including the series’ first hybrid type. The move reflects the global auto giant’s carbon neutrality strategy to avoid solely focusing on electric vehicles.

1. A large and very strong typhoon is approaching Japan’s southern prefecture of Okinawa. Officials are calling on people to be on the alert for violent winds, storm surges and high waves. Japan’s Meteorological Agency says that as of 6 p.m. on Tuesday, Typhoon Khanun was estimated to be at sea 130 kilometers south-southeast of the prefectural capital of Naha City. It was moving west-northwest at a speed of 15 kilometers per hour.
2. Myanmar’s military says it has pardoned ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi for some of the offenses she was convicted of. The announcement was made through state media on Tuesday. Aung San Suu Kyi was found guilty of 19 charges, including corruption, in unofficial trials, which in total resulted in a prison sentence of 33 years. The military says it has canceled the sentences for five of the offences. 3. Drones again flew into Russia’s capital of Moscow early Tuesday. The Russian defense ministry says Ukraine attempted to attack Moscow and its suburban areas with three drones on Tuesday. It says one of the unmanned aircraft crashed in a business district of high-rise office towers.

1. Japan has triumphed at the Fencing World Championships, clinching its first ever men’s team foil title with victory over China in the final. The win cam on the final day of the event, which took place in Milan from July 22 through 30, with qualifying points for the 2024 Paris Olympic Games on offer. 2. The Bank of Japan has released records from over a decade ago showing policymakers at the time hoped for early achievement of the BOJ’s 2-percent inflation target. The central bank’s ultra-loose policy has yet to meet the goal in a sustained way. 3. A record of more than 17 percent of male workers in Japan took child-care leave in the last fiscal year. More than 3,300 businesses and entities responded to the labor ministry’s annual survey in October. The results show 17.13 percent of eligible male workers took paternity leave in the year that ended in March, up 3.16 percentage points from a year earlier. But the figure is still far below the government’s target of 50 percent by 2025.