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Key words : olympic emergency
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20210809_02/
Tokyo is facing the challenge of how to contain the coronavirus as the Paralympics are set to start in two weeks.
The host city saw infections surge during the Olympic Games, which ended on Sunday.
The Olympics were held under a state of emergency, and no spectators were allowed into competition venues in Tokyo and five other prefectures.
But cases increased at an unpresented pace during the Games. Daily infections in the capital topped 4,000 for five days in a row through Sunday.
The seven-day average of cases through the closing day was 2.9 times higher than that on the opening day on July 23.
The number of inpatients reached a new high on Saturday and Sunday. The number of patients self-isolating at home also rapidly increased.
Experts advising the metropolitan government say the medical system in the capital is overstretched.
Tokyo Governor Koike Yuriko has denied the view that the Games led to the spread of the virus by an increase in the number of people going out. She said many people stayed home to watch the Olympics on TV.
The Paralympics are due to open on August 24.
Key words : tokyo emergency
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20210810_10/
NHK has learned that an emergency coronavirus patient in Tokyo was rejected by about 120 medical institutions amid a recent surge in new cases.
As of Monday, more than 17,000 people who have tested positive for the coronavirus were recuperating at home. That's 11.4 times higher than a month ago.
A Tokyo resident in his 50s tested positive after he developed a fever earlier this month. He was recuperating at home, but two days later began showing serious symptoms such as breathing problems and needed to be admitted to a hospital.
It took paramedics more than five hours to find a hospital willing to accept the patient, after being rejected by about 120 institutions. He was taken to the Nippon Medical School Hospital in Tokyo.
The hospital provides emergency care for seriously-ill coronavirus patients. But staff at the hospital say beds are usually full and they have had to turn down requests from paramedics and other institutions.
Yokobori Shoji, who heads the critical care center at the university hospital, said beds for severe patients are almost always occupied, and he has never seen so many requests for hospitalization.
He said that unless new infections decrease, they may not be able to save patients whom they normally could.
Key words : immigration 33-year-old
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20210810_07/
Japan's immigration authorities have disciplined four regional bureau officials for the death of a Sri Lankan woman at a detention facility in March.
The Immigration Services Agency released a final report on Tuesday on the probe into the handling of Wishma Sandamali by the facility in Nagoya, central Japan.
The 33-year-old woman had been detained for overstaying her visa. She began complaining of ill health at the facility in January and died there two months later.
The report says Wishma had demanded that she be examined by a doctor and be put on an intravenous drip at a medical institution. But facility workers did not share such information with the director of the regional bureau, and rejected her request.
The report points out that this was a violation of internal rules.
The probe also found that the facility lacked an appropriate system to provide medical care, as there were no full-time doctors or nurses at the facility. Non-medical staff responded when Wishma's condition worsened in the lead-up to her death.
The report says that the facility failed to promptly approve a request from Wishma that she be allowed to temporarily leave the facility in view of her worsening health.
The report calls on facility officials to proactively approve such requests from people complaining of ill health.
The agency reprimanded the bureau director and a former deputy director, and also issued strict warnings on two other senior officials.
Agency Commissioner Sasaki Shoko apologized, saying that she bears responsibility for inadequacies in both the medical care system and organized responses.
She also said she acknowledges that her organization lacked the alertness and wholeheartedness expected of a government body in charge of human lives.
Sasaki said she plans to offer an apology to Wishma's bereaved family and release video footage of the woman recorded at the facility.
Key words : myanmar two men
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The United States says two Myanmar citizens have been arrested in New York for allegedly plotting to injure or kill the South Eastern Asian nation's ambassador to the United Nations.
The US Attorney's Office and the Federal Bureau of Investigation announced on Friday the arrests of the two men who live in New York. One is 20 years old and the other is 28.
The authorities said that around February one of the men communicated with an arms dealer in Thailand who sells weapons to the Myanmar military.
In the course of their conversations, the two agreed on a plan to hire attackers to hurt Ambassador Kyaw Moe Tun in an attempt to force him to step down from his post.
The two agreed that if the ambassador did not step down, the attackers would kill him.
US investigators learned about the plot from telephone records and confirmed the transfer of money from the arms dealer to the man.
The authorities say the two have already been indicted.
The UN ambassador was fired by Myanmar's military in February after he criticized the military for seizing power in a coup.
But the ambassador has stayed in his post in defiance of the junta, appealing for support from the international community.
Key words : ceremony nagasaki peace park
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20210809_08/
Nagasaki is remembering the tens of thousands of lives lost when a US military plane dropped an atomic bomb on the southwestern Japanese city on this day 76 years ago.
Since early morning, people have been gathering to honor the victims at places including Nagasaki Peace Park, built around ground zero.
A man said we have to take a moment to pause and reflect on the war at such occasions.
A woman said I want all the nuclear weapons to be scrapped.
A Catholic mass was held at a cathedral near the park. Worshipers remembered the 8,500 followers who died in the area due to the bombing.
A memorial ceremony is set to start at 10:45 a.m.
The number of people in attendance will be limited to about 500 due to coronavirus measures. That's one-tenth the size before the pandemic.
Attendees will include survivors, their relatives, Prime Minister Suga Yoshihide and representatives from about 60 countries.
A register containing the names of 189,163 victims will be placed inside a memorial. It includes the names of 3,202 people who were added since last year.
Participants will offer a moment of silence at 11:02 a.m. the time the bomb exploded on August 9, 1945.
Nagasaki Mayor Taue Tomihisa will deliver a peace declaration at the ceremony. He's expected to call for the Japanese government's initiative in achieving a world without nuclear arms.
The mayor is also likely to urge the government to join a UN treaty that bans nuclear weapons.
The treaty came into force in January. But nuclear powers, as well as Japan and other countries protected by the US nuclear umbrella, have not signed it.
Throughout the day people in Nagasaki will reflect on the catastrophic war event and send a message that the atomic bombing, which devastated their city, should forever remain as the world's last.
Key words : all I remember
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20210809_14/
People in Nagasaki are sharing their hopes for peace. Many are offering prayers for the victims, and remembering what happened 76 years ago. On August 9, 1945, a US military plane dropped an atomic bomb on the southwestern city of Nagasaki, just three days after the world's first atomic attack leveled Hiroshima.
A Catholic mass was held at a cathedral located 500 meters from ground zero. About 200 people attended. Worshipers remembered the 8,500 followers who died in the area.
The 80-year-old survivor was four years old. She said, "All I remember was a flash of light, so strong that I couldn't open my eyes. I hope for a world that is peaceful and that is free of nuclear weapons."
More than 70 high school students from across the country came together at ground zero.
Tomisaki Risa said, "As the survivors age, young people are becoming less interested in the atomic bombings. We, as high school students, pledge to pass the baton of peace on to the next generation."
They formed a human chain to create a message for a world without nuclear arms. To reduce the coronavirus risk, they were linked by ribbons instead of holding hands.
At Shiroyama elementary school, children gathered in the gymnasium. The blast claimed the lives of more than 1,400 students and teachers from the school.
About 100 students sang a song memorializing the tragedy and calling for peace. It's been sung every year for decades.
People in Nagasaki will be reflecting on the catastrophe throughout the day, sending the message that the atomic bombing that devastated their city should forever be the world's last.
Key words : cathedral heat
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20210810_06/
Japan and the United Nations have signed an agreement to extend an atomic bombing exhibition for 10 more years, which features the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
The two Japanese cities have sponsored the exhibition at the UN Office at Geneva since 2011. On display are artifacts that reveal the devastation of the 1945 atomic bombings.
The collection includes pottery and part of an exterior wall of a cathedral in Nagasaki. Both were melted by heat from the atomic bomb.
A signing ceremony was held on Monday, prior to the expiry of the 10-year term for the exhibition.
Japanese Ambassador to the UN Conference on Disarmament Ogasawara Ichiro said, "Over the past 10 years, a number of people including government officials, UN officials, journalists and young people have come to this exhibition, and were deeply convinced of its value."
The ambassador expressed sincere hope that the exhibition will continue to provide an excellent opportunity for visitors to learn about the serious circumstances experienced in Nagasaki and Hiroshima.
Director-General of the UN Office at Geneva Tatiana Valovaya explained that Geneva is considered to be a disarmament capital. She said it's the ideal place to have this exhibition in order for people to remember and work to prevent the repetition of such tragedies in the future.
The exhibition is located in a busy area of the UN Office at Geneva where governments officials and representatives of international organizations come and go. It is well situated to attract the attention of people participating in international conferences.
Key words : ipcc
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20210809_19/
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or IPCC, has released a report on global warming for the first time in eight years.
The report urges world leaders to cut greenhouse gases, saying further warming could cause more heat waves and torrential rain.
The IPCC compiled the report, based on the results of recent studies, at an online meeting that opened on July 26.
The Paris Agreement, adopted in 2015, calls for efforts to limit the average global temperature rise since pre-industrial times to 1.5 degrees Celsius. But the report says the temperature already rose by 1.09 degrees over the decade through 2020.
The report says even if global greenhouse emissions were reduced to net zero by around 2050, there is a more than 50 percent chance of the world crossing the 1.5-degree warming mark by 2040.
It warns of more frequent and more intense extreme events such as heat waves and torrential rain as global warming progresses.
The report says extremely hot temperature event that occurred once in 50 years on average are now 4.8 times more frequent than the pre-industrial period in the latter half of the 19th century. If temperatures rise 1.5 degrees, It will be 8.6 times more frequent, and with a rise of 2 degrees, 13.9 times more frequent.
Heavy 1-day precipitation event that occurred once in 10 years on average now becomes 1.3 times more frequent. It will occur 1.5 times more frequently with a temperature rise of 1.5 degrees. It will be 1.7 times more frequent with a temperature rise of 2 degrees.
IPCC reports have had a great impact on international measures to fight global warming. The latest report could influence discussions at the UN climate change conference known as COP26, scheduled to take place in Britain in November.
Key words : tropical storm
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20210810_05/
A low pressure system that resulted from tropical storm Lupit has brought heavy rain and strong winds to northern Japan.
The Japan Meteorological Agency said rainfall in the one-hour period through 5 a.m. on Tuesday reached 33 millimeters in Hokuto City, Hokkaido Prefecture, and 22 millimeters in Shibata City, Niigata Prefecture.
The agency said about 100 millimeters of rain fell in the three-hour period through 5 a.m. on Tuesday in and around Mutsu City and Kazamaura Village in Aomori Prefecture.
Weather officials have issued a mudslide alert to parts of Hokkaido, Aomori, Iwate, and Gifu Prefectures, where torrential rainfall increased the risk of disaster.
Strong winds have been blowing over wide areas in eastern and northern Japan. A gust of 107 kilometers per hour was recorded in Niigata City at around 3:20 a.m. on Tuesday.
The low pressure system is forecast to pass through the Tohoku region during early afternoon on Tuesday, and approach Hokkaido.
Localized downpours are expected in northern and eastern Japan. In the 24 hours through Wednesday morning, up to 200 millimeters of rainfall is expected in Hokkaido, and the regions of Hokuriku and Tohoku.
Winds of 90 kilometers per hour are forecast for Hokkaido, and 83 kilometers per hour for the Tohoku and Hokuriku regions. The maximum wind speed could reach 126 kilometers per hour.
Weather officials are urging people in the affected areas to watch out for mudslides, floods in low-lying areas, overflowing rivers, gusts and high waves.
Key words : shimane okayama
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