The foreign ministers of Japan and South Korea have held phone talks amid strained ties over the South Korean Supreme Court's rulings on wartime labor.
The chief financial officer of Chinese tech giant Huawei has been released on bail in Canada.
A ministerial meeting of the UN climate change conference COP24 started in the Polish city of Katowice on Tuesday.
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Key words : Japan and south settle
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The foreign ministers of Japan and South Korea have held phone talks amid strained ties over the South Korean Supreme Court's rulings on wartime labor.
Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Kono and South Korean Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha spoke for about 30 minutes before noon on Wednesday.
The top diplomats exchanged views on the South Korean top court's rulings ordering Japanese companies to compensate Korean men who say they were forced to work at factories in Japan during World War Two.
Kono reportedly again urged the South Korean government to take action, saying that any right to seek compensation was settled completely and finally in 1965, when the two countries normalized ties and agreed on the issue of claims and economic cooperation.
In the telephone talks, the 2 ministers agreed to continue efforts to smooth out bilateral communication.
It was first for the 2 to talk since Kono demanded that the South Korean government take resolute action following the Supreme Court's first ruling in October.
Key words : chief financial officer released she was
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The chief financial officer of Chinese tech giant Huawei has been released on bail in Canada.
Meng Wanzhou was arrested at Vancouver Airport on December 1st at the request of the United States.
Meng is suspected of misleading US financial institutions about Huawei's links to a company that sold telecom equipment to Iran, which is under US sanctions.
On Tuesday, she left a court in Canada after being granted bail of about 7.5 million dollars.
She was also ordered to hand over her Chinese and Hong Kong passports and wear a GPS monitor.
Meng is required to stay at home in Canada while waging a legal battle over extradition to the United States.
Key words : Tokyo stock surged
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Tokyo stocks surged on Wednesday, after a Canadian judge granted bail to a senior executive of Chinese telecom firm Huawei, a development seen by many investors as a positive sign for global trade.
The benchmark Nikkei Average gained more than 450 points, ending the day at 21,602. That was an increase of 454 points, or 2.15 percent, from Tuesday's close.
The arrest of Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou by Canadian authorities at the request of the United States threatened to reignite a trade war between Beijing and Washington and shook global financial markets.
Investors cheered the decision to grant her bail as a sign that trade talks between the sides could get back on track.
Key words : ministerial
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A ministerial meeting of the UN climate change conference COP24 started in the Polish city of Katowice on Tuesday.
COP24, with the participation of more than 190 countries and territories, aims to decide rules that ensure the Paris climate accord is implemented. The accord is an international framework meant to address global warming beyond 2020.
So far, differences continue between developed and developing nations at working-level talks. The issues include targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and financial assistance.
At Tuesday's meeting, the UN's Climate chief, Patricia Espinosa, called for progress in negotiations. She said "Many political divisions remain. Many issues still must be overcome." She added, "This is the time for consensus. This is the time for compromises to be reached for the good of all people."
Japanese Environment Minister Yoshiaki Harada told reporters before the meeting that there is a big gap between industrialized and developing countries. He said Japan will work hard to overcome the differences.
The ministerial meeting runs through Friday this week, which falls on the final day of the COP24.
Key words : railway company
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A Japanese railway company has shown to media a test car of its new Shinkansen bullet train now under development.
East Japan Railway Company is developing the E956 type test train, nicknamed ALFA-X.
Its first car was shown to the media on Wednesday at a Kawasaki Heavy Industries factory in Hyogo Prefecture. The tip of the car is 16 meters long, which is a little longer than other types of Shinkansen trains. It is designed to reduce air resistance and noise when entering tunnels.
East Japan Railway aims to increase the maximum speed of the new train to 360 kilometers per hour, 40 kilometers faster than the E5 series Tohoku Shinkansen trains.
The company is developing another test car which has an even longer tip. Both cars are to be completed next May.
More tests will be carried out to check speed, noise and comfort of ride before a new train is put into service in fiscal 2030, when the Hokkaido Shinkansen line is extended to Sapporo City in Hokkaido, northern Japan.
Koji Asano, the head of East Japan Railway's Advanced Railway System Development Center, says he is excited that the next-generation train is finally starting to take shape. He says he's looking forward to seeing its performance.
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Key words : co-winner speech
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The co-winner of this year's Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Japanese scientist Tasuku Honjo, has given a speech at the Swedish parliament.
Honjo was invited to speak on Tuesday, a day after he attended an award ceremony and a banquet.
He shares the prize with US scientist James Allison for their work that led to a revolutionary cancer therapy.
Honjo said scientists have very limited knowledge about biology and never know where the most important questions or solutions exist. He called on money to be put "here and there".
He will attend a banquet at the royal palace hosted by Swedish King Carl XVI Gustaf before returning to Japan.
Key words : communication ishida
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Japan's communications minister Masatoshi Ishida has urged the country's telecommunication carriers to boost their cybersecurity measures.
The government on Monday decided to change the procedures for ministries and agencies to buy telecom equipment. Officials will now consider national security risks such as whether products are programmed with malicious functions in the development and production process. The move could effectively exclude Chinese makers.
Referring to the government's decision, Ishida said it is important to ensure the security and credibility of telecom networks, and said he hopes the carriers will also work actively to improve cybersecurity.
NTT Docomo and Softbank say they will follow the government's measures when acquiring products. KDDI says it has not yet made any decision.
Online retailer Rakuten plans to enter the mobile phone business next year and says it has no plans to procure Chinese products.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Lu Kang criticized Ishida's remarks.
He said creating obstacles to investment and cooperation through fabrications or for certain political purposes would work to their disadvantage.
He said he hopes that relevant governments and business groups will look at long-term interests and have responsible attitudes.
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Key words : Japanese anime
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Japanese anime director Hayao Miyazaki's highly acclaimed work "Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind" will be made into a kabuki play.
Entertainment company Shochiku announced the plan, saying it will be the first kabuki play to be adapted from a work by Miyazaki.
Shochiku says the play will be performed at the Shinbashi Enbujo theater in Tokyo in December next year, and that popular kabuki actor Onoe Kikunosuke will play the leading role Nausicaa.
Miyazaki started the manga series in 1982 and made it into a film 2 years later.
It tells a story of a girl named Nausicaa who struggles to survive conflicts in a heavily polluted world after the civilization was destroyed due to a catastrophic war.
The kabuki play is expected to depict parts of the story which were not in the film.
Toshio Suzuki at Studio Ghibli, who was in charge of the manga series and also participated in the production of the film, said he thought the idea of turning Nausicaa into a kabuki play is interesting, and he is looking forward to seeing the performance.
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