Wednesday marks one year until the start of the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games, with preparations for the event progressing on schedule.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has apologized to the families of former leprosy patients for the now-defunct government policy of segregating the sufferers.
Industry sources say Japan's Nissan Motor will cut more than 10 thousand jobs globally over the next several years.
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Wednesday marks one year until the start of the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games, with preparations for the event progressing on schedule.
Japan will welcome people from around the world from July 24 to August 9 next year for its first summer Olympics since 1964. Over the course of 17 days, thousands of athletes will compete in a record 339 events across 33 sports.
The process of selecting members for Japan's Olympic team will go into full swing this summer.
At the World Swimming Championships now underway in South Korea, four Japanese athletes, including veteran diver Ken Terauchi, have won spots at the Tokyo Games. It will be Terauchi's sixth Olympics.
In August, world championships for sailing and sports climbing will be held. Those who get better results than other Japanese competitors and meet certain other criteria will qualify for the Olympics.
The Marathon Grand Championship, or MGC, will be held on September 15 to determine two members each for the men's and women's Olympic teams.
Construction is proceeding rapidly at the Olympic Village for athletes and 42 venues. Once the venues are completed, they will host test events to check for any issues that may affect events progressing smoothly or guidance for spectators.
Olympic organizers and other relevant bodies plan to test anti-heat measures and ways to ease potential traffic congestion in the Japanese capital.
How to handle the 100,000 volunteers is one of the key issues that organizers need to address before the Games opens in exactly one year.
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Organizers of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics have revealed the design for the medals that will be presented to the winners.
An unveiling ceremony was held in Tokyo on Wednesday, exactly one year before the opening of the Games.
The medals feature Nike, the Greek goddess of victory, and the official name of the Games on the face, as stipulated by the International Olympic Committee. The reverse shows the Tokyo Olympic emblem.
The design is simple, but the curves in various angles make the medals three-dimensional and look shiny from any direction.
The medals will be made from recycled metals extracted from mobile phones and other small electronic devices.
They are 85 millimeters in diameter and are about 12 millimeters thick, just as they were in the two previous Summer Games in London and Rio de Janeiro.
The gold medal weighs 556 grams, the silver 550 grams and the bronze 450 grams. Organizers say the gold and the silver are the heaviest in the history of the Summer Olympics.
Ribbons for the medals feature the Tokyo Games' colors of indigo and crimson, and a checker pattern called "ichimatsu".
The organizing committee plans to make a total of about 2,500 medals by the end of May next year.
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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has apologized to the families of former leprosy patients for the now-defunct government policy of segregating the sufferers.
Abe met more than 40 family members of the former patients of Hansen's disease at the prime minister's office on Wednesday.
The meeting came after the Kumamoto district court ordered the central government last month to compensate families of people with Hansen's disease in a lawsuit filed by more than 500 plaintiffs across Japan. The government decided not to appeal the ruling.
Abe said that the patients' families were, without doubt, subject to severe discrimination and prejudice against leprosy and suffered much pain and hardship for many years.
He bowed and offered a sincere apology to them on behalf of the government.
Abe said that he decided to accept the court ruling and introduce new legislation to compensate families of former Hansen's patients, including those who did not participate in the lawsuit.
He also pledged to swiftly set up a committee to seek solutions to problems and to work with the families to eradicate discrimination and prejudice.
The head of the plaintiffs' group, Chikara Hayashi, said that more than 20 years have passed since the leprosy prevention law was repealed, but it's not easy to get rid of discriminatory practices that have built up over decades.
He said that he wants the prime minister and his government to do all they can to correct public misunderstanding through education based on the opinions of the victims' families.
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Industry sources say Japan's Nissan Motor will cut more than 10 thousand jobs globally over the next several years. The cuts are almost double those announced in May and many will be at overseas operations.
The carmaker is axing staff as it predicts slowing sales in the US, Europe and other major markets. Its operating profit for fiscal 2018 fell about 40 percent from the previous year.
The sources say Nissan also plans a review to improve production efficiency at overseas plants.
Beside the sales slump, Nissan is still dealing with the reputational fallout from the arrest of former Chairman Carlos Ghosn. That scandal has required the carmaker to also rebuild its corporate governance system.
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A senior South Korean government official has revealed that a military attache with the Russian Embassy in Seoul has expressed regret over Tuesday's flight of a Russian military aircraft into what South Korea claims its airspace.
The senior official from South Korea's presidential office was speaking on Wednesday about two airspace intrusions on Tuesday morning by a Russian A-50 airborne early warning and control aircraft. South Korean warplanes fired a total of more than 360 warning shots.
The official was delivering a message given by the Russian military attache, who was summoned to the South Korean defense ministry on Tuesday afternoon.
The attache expressed regret over the incident and was quoted as saying that the flight was planned in advance as part of joint air drills with China, noting that the intrusion was not intended. He said the plane is likely to have entered the airspace due to a technical glitch.
The South Korean official added that the Russian side said its defense ministry will soon begin investigating the incident and take the necessary steps.
Japan's Defense Ministry says the incident is the first intrusion by Russia into Japan's airspace near the Takeshima Islands. South Korea controls the islands. Japan claims them. The Japanese government maintains the islands are an inherent part of Japan's territory. It says South Korea is illegally occupying them.
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Swedish teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg has called on lawmakers in France to act quickly on global warming.
The 16-year-old is at the center of a movement among young people called "Fridays for Future." She has been skipping school every Friday since last August to bring attention to climate change and the movement has spread around the world.
Thunberg was invited to France's National Assembly on Tuesday to exchange views with parliamentarians.
She said the climate and ecosystem are facing a crisis at this very moment that has just started and will continue to grow worse.
Some opposition lawmakers criticized Thunberg, saying there is no need for what they called a "guru of the apocalypse."
Thunberg noted that some people have chosen not to listen to her and other young people. She said that is fine, but they must listen to the scientists.
Many politicians who took part in the gathering praised the young activist. Thunberg urged them to take action.
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