投稿者: tomoyasu

1. The South Korean military says North Korea fired a ballistic missile from North Pyongan Province in the country’s northwestern region on Sunday morning.
2. Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga says the government has protested to North Korea over its firing of a ballistic missile.
3. The United Nations Security Council has strongly condemned continued fighting across South Sudan that has killed or displaced a large number of civilians.

1. Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and U.S. President Donald Trump have agreed to launch dialogue between their deputies to deepen economic relations.
2. U.S. President Trump has indicated he may issue a new executive order on immigration early next week.

1. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe plans to propose measures to strengthen the bilateral alliance at the Japan-U.S. summit.
2. A U.S. federal appeals court has ruled against reinstating President Donald Trump’s executive order that temporarily bans entry of people from 7 Msulim-majority countries.
3. A senior official of Russia’s Foreign Ministry has indicated that the country and Japan will agree on project plans for joint economic activities on Russian-controlled islands claimed by Japan.

1. Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is to leave for Washington on Thursday for his first summit with U.S. President Donald Trump.
2. A project that takes in Syrian refugees as exchange students is to bear fruit in April following the arrival of the first group of students to Japan.
3. A team led by Japanese scientists has for the first time observed the creation of a new planetary system.

1. The White House says President Donald Trump has invited Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to visit his private resort in Florida after meeting on Friday in Washington.
2. The U.S. trade deficit rose slightly last year with China and Japan being the largest contributors.
3. Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida has emphasized the importance of working with Russia on plans for joint economic activities on 4-Russian held islands.

1. The U.S. government has submitted additional legal briefs to a federal appeals court over Donald Trump’s immigration policy.
2. The Japanese government is stepping up preparations for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s first official meeting with Trump.
3. A partnership deal between 2 Japanese automakers may entice others to forge alliances in the development of eco-friendly and autonomous vehicles.

1. Defense authorities in Japan have started maritime reclamation work in Okinawa in order to relocate a U.S. air base.
2. A candidate backed by the governor of Tokyo has won a mayoral election for a central district of the capital.
3. A massive protest in Romania has spread across the country over an order of decriminalizing corruptions by politicians and government officials.

1. U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration is appealing the ruling by a federal district court that suspends his controversial travel ban.
2. Ukraine’s presidential office says President Petro Poroshenko and his U.S. counterpart Donald Trump have agreed on the need to immediately halt the fighting in eastern Ukraine.
3. Japan’s Defense Ministry says it has successfully test-fired at sea a new interceptor missile jointly developed with the United States.

1. Japanese Defense Minister Tomomi Inada and U.S. Defense Secretary James Mattis have confirmed the importance of the bilateral alliance to peace and stability of the Asia-Pacific region.
2. A U.S. federal court in the state of Washington has placed a nationwide block on President Trump’s executive order banning the nationals from 7 countries from entering the country.
3. The Trump administration has announced new sanctions against Iran in response to its recent ballistic missile test.

1. U.S. Secretary of Defense James Mattis has arrived in Japan from South Korea. He will pay a courtesy call on Prime Minister Shinzo Abe later on Friday.
2. At least 2 passengers have been found to have given up boarding Japanese flights bound for the United States earlier this week, due to a temporary U.S. entry ban.
3. The operator of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant is examining if it can go ahead with a plan to deploy a robot into one of the damaged reactors at the facility.