日: 2024年6月28日

1. US President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump fiercely attacked each other in their first televised debate before the presidential election scheduled for November. The debates between the two presumptive nominees—Biden for the Democratic Party and Trump for the Republican Party—was held in Atlanta, Georgia, on Thursday. 2. Investigative sources say prosecutors in Japan’s Okinawa Prefecture indicted a member of the US Marine Corps earlier this month for allegedly attempting to sexually assault a woman and injuring her.
3. A concert has been held in Ukraine with a piano that was found in a town occupied by Russian troops in the early days of the invasion.

1. The vice governor of Japan’s southern prefecture of Okinawa has expressed strong anger over the indictment of a US Air Force member for the alleged kidnap and sexual assault of a girl under 16. Brigadier General Nicholas Evans, commander of the 18th Wing at US Kadena Air Base, promised the US military will fully cooperate with the investigation by local authorities and the legal process.
2. Japan’s Emperor Naruhito has attended a welcome banquet in London’s financial district during his state visit to Britain. Emperor Naruhito said in his speech the citizens of Japan and the UK have made bold efforts to solve challenges, building on the achievements of their predecessors and flexibly embracing new technologies.
3. A group of researchers in Japan says it has found that the use of three anticancer drugs before surgery helps raise the survival rate for esophageal cancer patients. The researchers say the triplet chemotherapy has prompted a review of the treatment for esophageal cancer.