Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga says the government will not hold a cherry blossom-viewing party next year, which is hosted every April by the prime minister.
A survey shows that 15 percent of the victims of last month's Typhoon Hagibis were killed while outdoors due to thier work they engaged in or while commuting.
Japanese businesses and research institutes have set up an organization to promote the development of quantum technology.
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Key words : Suga says
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Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga says the government will not hold a cherry blossom-viewing party next year, which is hosted every April by the prime minister.
Suga told reporters on Wednesday afternoon that the government will thoroughly review guidelines for the party, including the criteria for inviting guests.
He said the government understands that when the Cabinet Secretariat collects the names of guests, it also asks the Prime Minister's Office and the ruling party to recommend guests.
Suga noted that at the Prime Minister's Office, it considers recommendations by the prime minister, the deputy prime minister, the chief cabinet secretary and the deputy chief cabinet secretaries.
Suga said the government has followed such procedures as a long-standing practice, but the government now plans to consider clarifying the criteria for inviting guests, reducing their number and budget, so that the government makes the invitation process more transparent.
Suga said the government will conduct an overall review of guidelines while seeking opinions from across a broad spectrum. He said the cancellation of next year's party was decided by the prime minister. He also said the government will proceed with the review, expecting the party will be resumed in the year after next.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has come under criticism from opposition lawmakers who say he has exploited the guidelines to invite many of his own supporters to the public-funded event.
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Key words : victim killed
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A survey shows that 15 percent of the victims of last month's Typhoon Hagibis were killed while outdoors because of their work or while commuting.
NHK conducted the survey with Shizuoka University Professor Motoyuki Ushiyama, an expert on human behavior during disasters. The survey team studied cases of 92 people confirmed killed by the typhoon.
They found that 13 of the victims, or about 15 percent, were killed while at work or on their way home.
One victim was a 75-year-old newspaper delivery man who was heading to a sales agency in Iitate village, Fukushima Prefecture.
Another victim was a 58-year-old woman who was on her way home from a food factory in Taiwa town, Miyagi Prefecture.
Twenty other victims died outdoors while being evacuated.
Ushiyama said the victims could have survived if they had stayed indoors. He added that businesses and other institutions should instruct their staff not to venture out during a disaster.
Key words : space agency
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Japan's space agency says its probe is on its way back to Earth after leaving the asteroid, Ryugu.
Hayabusa2 was launched in 2014 and reached the asteroid about 300 million kilometers from Earth in June last year. It succeeded in an unprecedented mission of touching down twice and collecting rock samples from beneath the surface.
JAXA, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, said it confirmed the probe's departure, following the firing of engines at 10:05 a.m., Japan time, on Wednesday.
JAXA also released an image of the asteroid taken by the probe 20 kilometers above the surface.
Hayabusa2 will spend about two weeks from November 20 in test operations of its ion engines to bring it back to Earth.
JAXA says it plans to let the probe detach a re-entry capsule expected to contain the rock samples in November or December next year, which will then be recovered in the state of South Australia.
Key words : institutes set up
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Japanese businesses and research institutes have set up an organization to promote the development of quantum technology.
Quantum ICT Forum was founded by 19 businesses and 16 research institutes. They include major electronics companies, universities, and state-owned research organizations.
Quanta include photons and other subatomic particles. Researchers hope to create new information and telecommunication technologies by using the unique properties of such particles.
Quantum computers are far faster than supercomputers, and quantum cryptography cannot be deciphered.
The United States and China are among the countries that are racing to develop quantum technologies.
The forum will provide opportunities for companies to share the latest research. It will also draw up strategies to set global standards for the technology.
Hokkaido University Professor Akihisa Tomita is the head of the new forum. He says Japan has taken the lead in basic research on quantum technology, but if a country is five years behind in research and development, it will never be able to catch up.
He says the forum will help the government, industries and academia to share information and strategies to increase Japan's competitiveness in this area.
Key words : tensions remain high
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Tensions remain high in In Hong Kong two days after a police officer shot a protester at point-blank range.
Anti-government protestors hit the streets early Wednesday morning. They erected barricades and littering roads with bricks to obstruct traffic. Some train services were also disrupted. Meanwhile, schools and universities cancelled classes as a precautionary measure.
The protests entered a new stage on Monday when police shot a 21-year-old man. The incident sparked clashes across the city.
The confrontations have paralyzed the semi-autonomous region for more than five months. Protesters continue to call for democratic reform, but Chief Executive Carrie Lam says violence will not help them achieve that goal.
Key words : former leader cambodia
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The former leader of Cambodia's largest opposition party says pressure is mounting against Prime Minister Hun Sen's authoritarian politics and that he is determined to keep fighting for democracy.
NHK interviewed the former head of the Cambodia National Rescue Party, Sam Rainsy, on Tuesday in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
He has been living abroad for four years after a warrant was issued for his arrest. His party was forced to disband in 2017.
The former leader planned to return to Cambodia on the country's Independence Day last Saturday, but was refused permission to board a flight home by an airline company. He is currently in Malaysia.
Sam Rainsy said of Cambodia's current political situation that the country is not even under the rule of one party, but under the rule of one man, the prime minister.
Noting that the European Union is considering economic sanctions on Cambodia, Sam Rainsy said internal and external pressure on the Hun Sen regime to push for a democratic change has never been so strong.
More than 60 people including opposition party members have been arrested in Cambodia since Sam Rainsy announced his plan to return home. Some opposition party members say the plan has produced tragic results.
Sam Rainsy said he could not change his plan for the sake of the country, even if arrests were made. He said the prime minister was to blame.
Key words : Thailand accused
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A court in Thailand has issued arrest warrants for four national park officials accused of killing a prominent indigenous human rights activist.
Police are questioning the four in connection with the murder of Porlajee Rakchongcharoen.
It comes two months after Porlajee's remains were found in a reservoir inside a national park in western Thailand.
The suspects deny the allegations.
Porlajee was last seen in the custody of the park officials in 2014. At the time, he was helping a Karen community file a lawsuit accusing officials of burning their homes as part of an attempt to evict them from the forest.
The case has been on a UN list of 82 victims of forced disappearance in Thailand. The UN Human Rights Office is urging Thai authorities to take similar action to solve the disappearance of other activists.
Key words : immigration authorities 219 foreigners
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Japanese immigration authorities say 219 foreigners were staying in Japan as of the end of September after acquiring a new type of work visa for people with vocational skills.
The government began the new visa program this April to increase the number of foreign workers in Japan.
The Immigration Services Agency found where the 219 foreigners were living under the visa exactly six months after it went into effect.
They include 93 workers from Vietnam, 33 from Indonesia and 27 from the Philippines.
Forty-nine were in food production, 43 in industrial machinery manufacturing and 42 in material production.
Twenty-nine were working in Gifu Prefecture and 24 in Aichi Prefecture, both in central Japan. Twenty-three were in Osaka Prefecture, western Japan.
The immigration authorities earlier said 2,062 foreigners had applied for the visas as of September 20, but only 300 received them.
Agency officials say they hope to increase the number of foreign workers that stay in Japan after acquiring such visas, by offering tests in all available vocational fields by the end of next March. The officials say they plan to give applicants more opportunities to take the tests both in Japan and abroad.
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