Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe says his upcoming summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin will be crucial in improving bilateral relations.
Kansai International Airport has partially reopened another terminal that was inundated when Typhoon Jebi hit western Japan 10 days ago.
South and North Korea have opened a joint liaison office.
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Key words : Abe upcoming summit
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Prime Minister Shinzo Abe says his upcoming summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin will be crucial in improving bilateral relations.
Abe was speaking at a debate sponsored by the Japan National Press Club on Friday. He referred to Putin's proposal made on Wednesday for the 2 countries to sign a bilateral peace agreement before year-end without preconditions.
Abe said he took this as an expression of Putin's enthusiasm for a peace deal, but that it's necessary to understand what the president meant.
Abe stressed that Japan's position on the peace treaty is unchanged -- that there can be no deal before the issue of the Northern Territories is resolved.
Russia controls the 4 islands. Japan claims them. The Japanese government maintains the islands are an inherent part of Japan's territory. It says the islands were illegally occupied after World War Two.
Abe said, however, his summit with Putin in November or December will be very important. He added that unless he shows his willingness, negotiations will not make progress.
Key words : airport partially
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Kansai International Airport has partially reopened another terminal that was inundated when Typhoon Jebi hit western Japan 10 days ago.
The southern side of Terminal 1 reopened on Friday. The flooding caused a power outage on September 4th.
Domestic and international flights at the airport partially resumed last weekend, using Runway B. Terminal 2 was reopened at the same time.
Terminal 1 is used by more airlines than Terminal 2.
Passengers began checking in for international flights at the southern side of Terminal 1 early on Friday morning.
A woman traveling with her daughter said they were heading for Singapore, where her husband works. She said she is happy that their flight will depart as scheduled.
On Friday, 115 flights -- 36 domestic and 79 international -- are expected to use Terminal 1 and the 2 runways.
The operator, Kansai Airports, says it expects to get Terminal 1 fully up and running by reopening the North Wing on Friday next week.
The typhoon's powerful winds rammed a fuel tanker into the bridge that connects the airport on a man-made island with the mainland.
All the damaged girders were cleared away by Friday morning. The operator says it expects the train service to the airport will resume on Friday next week.
Key words : Suga provide
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Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga says the government will provide more information in other languages to help visitors during emergencies.
Suga said on Friday that foreign tourists who became stranded at Kansai International Airport last week complained that there wasn't enough information in other languages.
Suga said the transport ministry and other government entities will quickly come up with measures to rectify the situation so that visitors can feel secure if a natural disaster occurs while they are traveling in Japan.
Key words : south and north opened
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South and North Korea have opened a joint liaison office. The move comes just a week before the leaders of the two sides are set to meet in Pyongyang.
Friday's ceremony fulfills an agreement struck between Moon Jae-in and Kim Jong Un during their first summit back in April.
The office is in the North Korean city of Kaesong, located near the demilitarized zone.
It's aimed at improving communication and reducing military tensions. The office will be staffed by about 50 officials from both sides who will start immediately.
The city had previously hosted an industrial park that was jointly run by the South and the North.
It was shut down by the South in 2016 amid the North's missile tests.
Meanwhile South Korea's Defense Ministry says the authorities held working-level talks for about 17 hours from Thursday morning in the truce village of Panmunjom.
South Korean media say the both sides exchanged views on plans to withdraw part of troops and equipment from outposts in the demilitarized zone dividing the 2 Koreas on trial basis.
They also reportedly discussed the possibility of setting up a buffer zone around the maritime demarcation line in waters off the west coast of the Korean Peninsula.
Key words : government officials from Japan
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Government officials from Japan, other Asian nations, and the United States have taken part in joint drills to help corporations prepare against cyberattacks.
Japan and the US organized the 5-day exercise that began in Tokyo on Monday. The participants included officials from the ASEAN member states, South Korea, and India.
Japanese officials explained how hackers are targeting infrastructure such as power facilities as well as offices and factories.
They said attacks on the control systems of power plants could halt their operations and cause electricity outages. They also showed how hackers can tamper with surveillance cameras.
Japan's industry ministry says corporate cyberattacks are increasingly aimed at Asian subsidiaries or client firms that are not adequately protecting their computer systems.
A participant from Malaysia says he learned about the need to guard against attacks that could inflict severe damage. He says he will study protective measures when he returns home.
Key words : Insight cheapening could trigger another crisis
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Key words : Fukushima build
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The operator of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant plans to build additional seawalls along its damaged reactors.
Its aim is to keep another possible mega-tsunami from causing the leakage of highly radioactive water accumulated in the basement of buildings housing 3 reactors that suffered a meltdown following the 2011 quake and tsunami.
The Tokyo Electric Power Company, or TEPCO, announced the plan at a meeting of the Nuclear Regulation Authority on Friday.
Last December, a government earthquake research panel warned of a possible imminent mega-quake in the Chishima Trench off the northern prefecture of Hokkaido.
TEPCO says its research shows such a quake could send tsunami of more than 10 meters into the Fukushima Daiichi plant and cause highly radioactive water to gush out of its damaged reactors.
The Fukushima Daiichi plant is in the process of decommissioning after the triple meltdown.
TEPCO has been pumping water into the 3 reactors to cool down fuel that melted. About 46,000 tons of contaminated cooling water and groundwater flowing into the reactor buildings have accumulated, mainly in their basement floors.
TEPCO now plans to move up work to seal the buildings' entrances and other openings to prevent any more tsunami-related damage.
The company will also extend the coastal seawalls further north along reactor units 1 to 4, and plans to finish the work as soon as possible.
At Friday's meeting, an official of the Secretariat of the Nuclear Regulation Authority asked TEPCO to study whether the planned extension of seawalls will affect the decommissioning work.
TEPCO's Chief Decommissioning Officer, Akira Ono, said another tsunami could knock out equipment and delay the decommissioning process. He said the company will quickly study how and where the seawalls should be built.
Key words : Akihito visited
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Japan's Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko have visited a city in western Japan that was devastated by torrential rain in July.
The couple flew into Okayama Airport on Friday morning and boarded a Self-Defense Force helicopter to visit the flood-hit Mabi district in Kurashiki City.
They saw damaged houses and flooded paddies from an embankment of the Oda River, near which 51 people died in the disaster.
The emperor asked how high the floodwater rose. The city's mayor said it was roof-high and that some residents were rescued from rooftops.
The couple later met survivors. The emperor asked a man who'd lost his mother how old she was. The man said 76. The emperor expressed condolences.
The empress consoled a woman whose home was flooded, saying she's glad the woman was safe.
The couple also thanked police, firefighters, Self-Defense Force personnel and other rescue workers for saving many lives.
They returned to Tokyo in the afternoon.
Their itinerary had included another rain-hit city, Kure in neighboring Hiroshima Prefecture, but the visit was cancelled due to bad weather.
The Imperial Household Agency says the emperor and empress plan to visit another rain-hit area in Ehime Prefecture next Thursday. It says they may also visit Hiroshima Prefecture.
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