Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe intends to reshuffle his cabinet next week.
Student groups in Hong Kong have boycotted the first day of classes on Monday to call for greater democracy.
Japan's exports to China fell in the first six months of the year as companies shifted production elsewhere to avoid trade tariffs.
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Key words : Abe reshuffle
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Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe intends to reshuffle his cabinet next week.
Abe revealed this at a liaison meeting of the government and the ruling coalition parties on Monday.
He said he will respond to the strong public support shown in July's Upper House election and carry out every policy he has promised.
Abe also said he will make a fresh start to take on various challenges, while placing importance on political continuity and stability.
Abe said the coalition parties have a lot of talented people in different age groups, and he will give careful consideration to creating a strong cabinet lineup.
Key words : hong kong boycott greater democracy
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Student groups in Hong Kong are planning to boycott the first day of classes on Monday to call for greater democracy.
The move comes after another weekend of violent confrontations between demonstrators and police in the semi-autonomous Chinese territory.
Video from local media shows protesters gathering around one local school, with some handing out fliers promoting the boycott.
Student groups planned to hold a rally in central Hong Kong on Monday afternoon. They want participants to skip class for the first two weeks of the school year in a show of opposition.
"If we don't have a future, why do we go to a school?" asked one student taking part in the boycott. "We come out today, it's because we want our future. If today we didn't come out, we don't have a future anymore."
Hong Kong has been wracked by pro-democracy protests for nearly three months. On Sunday, demonstrators occupied a bus terminal at the international airport, in an effort to bring worldwide attention to their cause.
Protesters flooded roads connecting the airport to the city, and threw obstacles onto the railway tracks to disrupt train service.
Workers across a range of industries are also planning to hold another general strike on Monday and Tuesday.
Hong Kong authorities have struggled to rein in the protest movement, which began with marches against a controversial extradition bill and has since snowballed to include calls for democratic reforms.
Key words : exports to China
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Japan's exports to China fell in the first six months of the year as companies shifted production elsewhere to avoid trade tariffs. About 20 percent of Japan's exports go to China.
Finance Ministry statistics show China-bound shipments in January-to-June fell 8 percent to about 66 billion dollars from the same period last year. Exports to China in July also dropped by 9 percent on year to 12 billion dollars.
Japanese companies make a lot of products in China for the US market. But with Beijing and Washington slapping tariffs on each other's imports, Japanese firms are moving elsewhere.
Precision equipment maker Ricoh says it shifted production of US-bound products to Thailand from China.
Ricoh officials say output in Thailand has increased by about 10 percent. The company still makes products for Japanese and European markets in China.
Mitsubishi Electric and Daikin Industries are two other companies following a similar strategy. Mitsubishi moved some manufacturing of semiconductors and machinery for US customers to Japan from China.
Daikin replaced China with Thailand as the production base for compressors used in air conditioners.
Key words : defense white paper
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Japan's latest draft defense white paper warns that North Korea may have already developed nuclear warheads small enough to be loaded into ballistic missiles.
The draft of the annual report says North Korea continues to launch short-range ballistic missiles.
It also points out the existence of a uranium enrichment facility that North Korea has not declared.
The paper retains the expression of last year's version, saying North Korea poses an "unprecedentedly serious and imminent threat to Japan's security".
The report refers to South Korea as one of the countries with which Japan promotes security cooperation.
But the reference to the country came later than in previous years.
The report includes remarks by Defense Minister Takeshi Iwaya about South Korea's termination of its intelligence-sharing pact with Japan. Iwaya expressed deep disappointment following South Korea's decision not to extend the General Security of Military Information Agreement, or GSOMIA.
In a reference to the deployment plan of an Aegis Ashore missile defense system, the report says the ministry sincerely reflects on the inappropriate handling of survey data and other mistakes.
Plans for deployment of the new missile interceptor system were based on problematic data.
The defense paper is expected to be approved by the Cabinet this month.
Key words : state-run not to reverse
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North Korea's state-run media has called on the South not to reverse its decision to end its intelligence-sharing agreement with Japan.
Last month, Seoul formally notified Tokyo that it was terminating the General Security of Military Information Agreement, or GSOMIA. As a result, the bilateral pact, which was signed in 2016 in light of North Korea's nuclear and ballistic missile activities, will expire on November 23.
North Korea's ruling party newspaper, Rodong Sinmun, commented on the South's decision on Monday.
It says the pact infringes on the dignity and interests of Korean people on both sides of the border and ignites uncertainty and confrontation between them.
It also claims the termination of the pact reflects the will of all South Koreans.
South Korean Prime Minister Lee Nak-yon has signaled his readiness to reconsider ending the pact if Tokyo returns South Korea to its list of favored trade partners.
The commentary criticizes the gesture and accuses Lee of being indecisive and catering to the United States and Japan. It says his remark runs counter to the will of the Korean people.
The commentary lashed out at Japan for protesting South Korea's decision to leave the pact.
It also denounced the US for similarly having expressed disappointment, saying Washington is applying pressure to Seoul while siding with Tokyo.
Key words : powerful hurricane immediate
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An extremely powerful hurricane is approaching the southern region of the United States without losing strength.
Authorities in Florida, South Carolina and Georgia have ordered immediate evacuation and declared a state of emergency as Hurricane Dorian approaches.
Weather officials in the US say Dorian was moving westward over the Atlantic at about 200 kilometers off the coast of Florida early on Monday.
They say the hurricane remains a Category 5 storm, the most powerful on the 5-degree scale, with an atmospheric pressure of 916 hectopascals at its center and packing winds of 280 kilometers per hour.
They say Dorian is expected to bear down on the east coast of Florida from Monday night through Wednesday evening, local time.
Local media say Dorian was packing a maximum wind speed of 295 kilometers per hour when it made landfall in the Bahamas on Sunday, which was the second most powerful storm on record, following a hurricane in 1980.
The storm blew off roofs and submerged roads on the islands.
President Donald Trump convened an emergency meeting with cabinet secretaries on Sunday to discuss the government's response to the hurricane.
He urged people to stay on alert, saying Dorian could be among the strongest storms to hit in decades.
Key words : Myanmar army associated press
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Myanmar's army says it will court-martial soldiers who were allegedly involved in the deaths of Rohingya Muslims in the western state of Rakhine.
The security forces launched a major crackdown on Rohingya militants in the state in 2017, which led to more than 700,000 Rohingya fleeing to neighboring Bangladesh.
A mass grave was discovered in Rakhine in December 2017.
In February 2018, an Associated Press report alleged a number of villagers were killed and buried by the security forces just after the start of the crackdown.
The military had not previously acknowledged the possible involvement of its soldiers in the persecution of Rohingya during the campaign two years ago.
The military has provided no details on the planned court-martial proceedings. But they are believed to be linked to the reported killings.
The return of Rohingya refugees has been repeatedly postponed. Myanmar is expected to come under international criticism over the stalled repatriation process at a United Nations General Assembly meeting this month. The Myanmar military is apparently seeking to deflect such criticism by announcing court-martials.
But the announcement also includes descriptions that deny organized military involvement in the alleged killings, suggesting that senior officers would not be held accountable.
Key words : Trump expressed gun
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US President Donald Trump has expressed reluctance to implement thorough background checks for gun purchases, saying they would not have prevented recent shootings.
Trump spoke to reporters on Sunday, one day after a gunman killed seven people and wounded 22 in Texas.
The president stressed that he has been discussing various measures with Republicans and Democrats to prevent gun violence.
But he said most shooting incidents in the past several years could not have been stopped even if stronger background checks of gun purchasers had been introduced.
In early August, Trump voiced support for a proposal by Democrats to make checks more stringent.
Democratic presidential candidate Julian Castro said on NBC television that Trump "has gone back on his word" about taking action on universal background checks. He said Trump's assertion that he would do something was one of "the biggest lies that the president has told."
Some US media report the National Rifle Association, which strongly backed Trump as the Republican presidential candidate, told him that the idea of thorough background checks is not popular among his supporters.
Key words : light plane
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A light plane on a medical evacuation flight has crashed near the Philippine capital of Manila. All nine people on board have been confirmed dead.
The plane crashed into a resort compound in Laguna Province on Sunday afternoon.
Among those on board was a patient and medical staff.
Two employees at the facility were injured and taken to a hospital.
Video footage taken by a witness shows white smoke spewing from the aircraft as it came down. It also shows black smoke billowing from the compound.
Local police say a nurse named Yamato Togawa was on board.
The Japanese Embassy in Manila is looking into whether the nurse was from Japan.
Police say the plane took off for Manila from the city of Dipolog in Zamboanga del Norte Province.
Key words : worker top
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Workers have finished removing the top section of an exhaust stack for two damaged reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
The plant's operator, Tokyo Electric Power Company, is working to dismantle the upper half of the 120-meter-tall stack.
It has released footage of the work completed on Sunday, about a month behind schedule.
The workers used a crane to lift off a section of the stack, together with the equipment used to cut it, and lowered them to the ground.
The stack was contaminated by radioactive gases released after the 2011 accident and is at risk of collapsing in an earthquake.
The iron framework that supports the stack was also damaged in the accident.
The company plans to complete the work by the end of March.
Removing the first section was originally scheduled to take two days but ended up taking over a month to complete.
The work was initially delayed when it was discovered that the crane wasn't tall enough.
Equipment failures and other problems created further delays.
Officials say they will study the work done so far in order to streamline the demolition process.
Key words : Haneda
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Tokyo's Haneda Airport will add 50 new international flights per day ahead of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics. The new schedule will start next March.
Twenty four of the new routes will serve cities in the United States.
Eight will serve China and four Australia. Russia will get four additional flights and two each are allocated to Italy, India, Turkey, Finland and the Scandinavian region.
The transport ministry will decide on the exact destinations after discussions with the airline companies.
Japan Airlines and All Nippon Airways will operate half of the new flights.
Key words : small replace
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Small retailers in Japan are scrambling to replace their cash registers, in the lead-up to a hike in the consumption tax.
Stores will need models that can handle two different tax rates to be introduced from October 1. Shoppers will be charged 8 percent for food and non-alcoholic beverages and 10 percent for other items. Large retailers like convenience stores don't need to make the switch, as they do their transactions online. But many small businesses have to adapt.
Orders are surging for cash registers that can handle the dual tax rates. But production isn't catching up. About 6,000 units rolled off one manufacturer's assembly line in July and August, triple the number of the same period last year. Shipments for this month are expected to stay at around the same level.
Factory managers have increased their workforce by 30 percent and are asking them to put in overtime. Officials at other manufacturers say they are also struggling to keep up with demand.
Even so, some shops may not get new cash registers in time for the new tax. They might have to rely on calculators for the first few months.
Key words : tackle mosquito
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Japanese officials are training to tackle a possible outbreak of mosquito-borne viral infections, ahead of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics.
About 160 officials from the Tokyo Metropolitan Government, the Environment Ministry and other bodies took part in a drill on Monday in Shinjuku Gyoen National Garden in central Tokyo.
For the exercise, it was assumed that a mosquito carrying the dengue virus had been caught in the city.
Drill participants checked grassy areas that mosquitoes generally inhabit and sprayed them with insecticide.
Dengue is a viral disease marked in humans by high fever, joint pain and other symptoms.
Southeast Asian countries have suffered outbreaks of dengue fever this year. The disease has claimed more than 600 lives in the Philippines.
Authorities are concerned that it could spread to Japan. More than 160 people were infected five years ago.
The National Institute of Infectious Diseases plans to tighten its checks of mosquitoes for the dengue and Zika viruses through next year.
Shinji Kasai, a senior researcher at the institute, says they will confirm whether adequate preparations have been made before next year's Tokyo Games.
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