The leaders of North Korea and South Korea have signed a joint declaration after concluding their 3rd summit talks.
The ongoing trade tensions between the US and China continue to escalate. Beijing says it will slap tariffs on US imports worth about 60-billion dollars.
The operator of Hokkaido's main power plant says unit one of its Tomatoh-Atsuma thermal plant is back online.
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Key words : leaders of north have signed joint
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The leaders of North Korea and South Korea have signed a joint declaration after concluding their 3rd summit talks.
The declaration states that North Korea is ready to permanently dismantle its nuclear facility in Nyongbyon, on the condition that the United States takes reciprocal actions.
South Korean President Moon Jae-in and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un met for the 2nd day of their summit in Pyongyang on Wednesday. They talked for about 70 minutes.
After the meeting, the 2 leaders signed the declaration.
Along with the suggestion about the dismantlement of the nuclear facility, the document says the North's missile test site in Tongchang-ri will be shut down permanently in attendance of international inspectors.
The declaration also says Kim will visit Seoul in the near future. The visit, if it takes place, will mark the first one to the South Korean capital by a North Korean leader.
Referring to this, Moon said the word "near future" suggests sometime before the end of this year, if there are no particular reasons to obstruct the state visit.
Key words : Suga
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Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga has expressed hope that the inter-Korean summit agreement will lead to complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.
He also said Japan respects the 2 leaders' efforts to reach the agreement.
Suga told reporters on Wednesday that the important thing is quick implementation of the agreement made at this year's US-North Korea summit, including Pyongyang's commitment to full denuclearization of the peninsula.
He said Japan will continue to work closely with the US and South Korea on the matter.
Asked whether he has confirmed with South Korea whether Japan-North Korea dialogue was on the agenda at the current summit, Suga said only that he has been given various types of information.
Key words : ongoing trade
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The ongoing trade tensions between the US and China continue to escalate. Beijing says it will slap tariffs on US imports worth about 60-billion dollars. The move comes in retaliation for new duties Washington announced on Monday.
Meanwhile President Donald Trump remains determined to punish China until the country makes trade concessions. That means the dispute will likely keep going. But Trump has left the door open to talks.
Trump said, "We may make a deal at some point but right now, we just imposed 200 billion dollars at 25 percent. It just went on. It actually kicks in on January 1st at 25 percent. It starts off at 10 percent, but shortly thereafter it goes to 25. So we'll see what happens but we're making a lot of headway with China. China wants to come over and talk. And we are always open to talking."
Beijing's retaliatory tariffs will have a smaller impact as it imports less American goods than the US gets from China.
And China's counter-tariffs could hurt domestic businesses and consumers, who are already affected by declining stock prices and a weakening yuan.
China may want to negotiate with the US rather than continue to fight an all-out trade war. But Beijing appears to distrust President Trump, who pushed ahead with the new sanctions while arrangements for talks were being made.
Meanwhile, concerns are also growing in the US. The country's National Retail Federation has reacted to Trump's latest tariff announcement. It called the policy "disappointing", saying every time the trade war escalates, the risk to US consumers grows.
There are also concerns that its effects could reach the Japanese economy. There are more than 30,000 Japanese firms operating in China.
An economist warns that the increasing tariffs could have a large impact on the Japanese economy.
Shunsuke Kobayashi at Daiwa Institute of Research said, "China makes products with components and machinery imported from Japan, and Chinese products heading to the US are estimated to be worth about 27 billion dollars. The biggest concern is the effect on semiconductor businesses in Japan, which export large amounts of chip-making machinery to China."
He also warns that the US-China trade war could drag on and have an extensive impact on the global economy.
Key words : bank of Japan finished
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The Bank of Japan has finished a two-day meeting, and officials are going to keep their bank policy steady, as expected. They adjusted their policy in July in order to limit negative effects from a monetary easing program.
The BOJ will maintain its target for the long-term interest rate at around zero percent. It says it will allow fluctuations in the benchmark 10-year government bond yield, to some extent.
The short-term interest rate target will stay at minus 0.1 percent. That means commercial banks effectively have to pay 0.1 percent interest on a portion of their deposits at the central bank.
Policymakers also kept their forward guidance on policy rates. They promise to maintain the extremely low levels of short- and long-term interest rates for an extended period.
Key words : main power plant unit one is back online
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The operator of Hokkaido's main power plant says unit one of its Tomatoh-Atsuma thermal plant is back online.
The facility had been down following a massive earthquake in the prefecture earlier this month, which left many without electricity.
The restart brings the utility's total output capacity to 3.9 million kilowatts. That's more than the peak demand reached before the quake.
Key words : Amuro exclusive interview
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Key words : health officials
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Japan's health officials say rubella, or German measles, is spreading, with the number of patients since the start of this year the largest in 5 years.
The National Institute of Infectious Diseases said on Wednesday that the total number of cases this year has hit 496, more than 5 times the figure from last year.
More than 70 percent of the cases are in Tokyo and surrounding prefectures.
In the week ending September 9th, 127 new cases were reported by medical institutions across Japan.
That marked the first time this season that the number of new cases in a week topped 100.
Symptoms include fever and rashes. An infection during pregnancy could result in visual, hearing or cardiac disorders for the baby.
The institute is calling on women who may become pregnant to receive a vaccination followed by a booster shot.
It is also urging family members and others close to pregnant women to consider receiving vaccinations, if they have never contracted the disease and do not have records of receiving shots on two occasions.
It says men in their 30s to 50s should be tested for antibodies and consider getting vaccinated, because they were not subject to vaccinations as children.
Key words : number of foreign resident
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Key words : robot center
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A Japanese machinery maker has opened a robot center in Russia's second largest city, Saint Petersburg, in the hope of developing a new market.
Kawasaki Heavy Industries opened the facility on Tuesday on the campus of St. Petersburg Polytechnic University. Ten types of robots are on permanent display, including the same ones that Toyota Motor is using at its local plant.
In a speech at the opening ceremony, Rector Andrey Rudskoy said the university has a mission to train robot experts for Russia.
The Russian government is seeking to improve industrial efficiency and boost productivity. The Japanese government is supporting these efforts as part of its economic cooperation program.
The Managing Executive Officer of Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Yasuhiko Hashimoto, says Russia is going to rapidly introduce more robots, given the level of its space industry. He says he has high expectations for this potential market.
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