Key words : new president suzuki
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The new president of Japan's main ruling Liberal Democratic Party Kishida Fumio is preparing to appoint his cabinet members.
Kishida will keep Kishi Nobuo as Defense Minister. Kishi is the younger brother of the former prime minister Abe Shinzo. Their grandfather Kishi Nobusuke was?also a former prime minister.
Suzuki Shunichi will be tapped as Finance Minister. He has served as LDP's General Council Chairperson.
Key words : sensoji
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Families and groups of tourists flocked to Tokyo's historic Asakusa area on the first Sunday since the end of a coronavirus state of emergency covering much of Japan.
Visitors took photos, rode in rickshaws, and walked along the Nakamise shopping street leading to the Tokyo neighborhood's iconic Sensoji Temple.
Shop owners around the temple's Kaminarimon Gate say more tourists came on Saturday than on that day a week ago. Some shops had cut prices of souvenirs.
A woman in her 30's from Chiba Prefecture, east of Tokyo, came with her child. She said it was a good change of pace for her child, who had not taken a train for a while.
A couple from Niigata Prefecture on the Sea of Japan coast said they were visiting Tokyo to attend a friend's wedding. They said they were enjoying their first trip to Tokyo in a year.
Key words : 161 new
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The Tokyo Metropolitan Government reported 161 new cases of the coronavirus in the capital on Sunday.
The figure is down 138 from a week ago, and has remained below 300 for the 8th consecutive day.
Tokyo officials say 88 patients are in serious condition, unchanged from Saturday.
Key words : atami
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People have mourned victims of mudslides in the city of Atami, Shizuoka Prefecture, central Japan, to mark three months since the deadly disaster.
Massive mudslides struck the Izusan district of the city on July 3, killing 26 people. One woman remains missing. Officials say the disaster damaged 132 homes, including 53 that were destroyed and 11 that were heavily damaged.
About 30 members of a group of bereaved families and affected people gathered around the site on Sunday to observe a moment of silence.
A man who heads the group and who lost his mother in the disaster says he feels the past three months have passed so quickly, as various things happened.
He said it was very hard on him until his mother was found, and that he hopes the missing woman will be uncovered as soon as possible.
Around 580 people were evacuated to hotels arranged by the city. Officials say most of them have already returned home or moved to temporary housing.
However, a number of people remain away from areas where they have lived for many years. There are challenges in how to rebuild that lives and how to prevent elderly people from becoming isolated.
Key words : owner lawsuit
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Key words : china watchdog
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China's anti-corruption watchdog says it is investigating a former justice minister for suspected grave violations of discipline and law.
The Communist Party's Central Commission for Discipline Inspection announced on Saturday that it is investigating 66-year-old Fu Zhenghua. It has not revealed details of the suspected violations.
The commission also said on Thursday that Sun Lijun, former deputy head of the Ministry of Public Security, had been expelled from the Communist Party. It said he had accepted large amounts of money and property and led a "decadent lifestyle."
There was once the persistent view that a former member of the Chinese leadership, Zhou Yongkang, had been conspiring with a department that controls police and justice to overthrow President Xi Jinping's leadership.
Zhou once had considerable clout in the department, but was later disgraced.
Observers say Xi's leadership is trying to tighten its grip on power by cracking down on the department ahead of the Communist Party National Congress in the fall of next year. Xi is apparently seeking an unprecedented third term as the party's general secretary.
Key words : taiwan says 39 thirty-eight
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Taiwan says 39 Chinese military aircraft entered its air defense identification zone on Saturday, setting another record daily entry by Chinese forces.
Taiwan's defense ministry says the aircraft entered the zone in two waves.
The first batch contained 18 fighter jets and two anti-submarine planes. It flew into the zone over waters southwest of Taiwan during the daytime.
The second group entered the same zone at night. It was made up of 18 fighter jets and an early warning plane.
The entry of 39 Chinese military planes is the largest in a single day since Taiwan's defense ministry started releasing data in its current format in September of last year. The number also marked a record high for the second day in a row. Thirty-eight Chinese aircraft entered the zone on Friday.
In a report released in late August, Taiwan's defense ministry said Beijing is trying to narrow the air area for Taiwan's military activity and burden its air defense by having the Chinese military drill off the coast of southwestern Taiwan.
Taiwan media quoted an expert as saying the Chinese military may be conducting drills on deploying multiple units in waves in the event of an armed conflict.
Key words : texas
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Protesters around the United States have raised their voices against a highly-restrictive abortion law that went into effect in the state of Texas in September.
The law bans abortion after cardiac activity is detected in the embryo, which is usually around the sixth week of pregnancy.
Organizers of the protests say that rallies took place in about 650 cities in all 50 states on Saturday.
In Dallas, Texas, about 2,500 people gathered at a downtown park. They marched together holding placards, one of which said "Keep abortion legal." They chanted "My body, my choice."
Anti-abortion protesters also showed up, shouting that abortion is murder.
Opposing groups yelled at each other and at one point police moved in to keep them separated.
Michelle Anderson, from an organizing group that supports women who want to have abortion, said the new law "tells women that we won't be able to have rights to make our own decision about our body," adding, "that should never happen."
One of the participants living in Texas said that the law is sickening and that the protest is just a beginning. She said that she hopes to see their actions lead to change.
Key words : britain gasoline
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Long lines are becoming the norm at gas stations across Britain as a significant shortage of truck drivers disrupts gasoline deliveries.
Chronic shortages of workers including lorry drivers have been felt in various economic sectors in the country in the wake of its departure from the European Union. Workers from within the EU need visas to work in Britain and with the COVID-19 pandemic, many of them left.
Gas stations felt the pinch and some were forced to close. Consumers went on panic buying sprees and vehicles lined up at gas stations in places like London.
Military drivers will be deployed beginning Monday to help deliver gasoline. The government now says that temporary visas would be issued for foreign lorry drivers.
But a transportation organization estimates that roughly 100,000 drivers are needed.
Driver shortages and delivery disruptions are also being felt at grocery stores in some parts of the country as shelves are going empty.
Key words : climate finance
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Delegates from around the world have agreed that more must be done to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and keep the 1.5-degrees Celsius target within reach.
The agreement came at the preparatory meeting for the COP26 UN climate conference that ended in the northern Italian city of Milan on Saturday. US climate envoy John Kerry was among the participants.
The 2015 Paris Agreement set a target of limiting the rise in global average temperatures to 1.5 degrees Celsius from pre-industrial levels.
After the preparatory talks, COP26 President Alok Sharma from Britain told reporters that there was a consensus that countries need to do more in terms of keeping the 1.5 degrees within reach.
He also urged the governments and private sectors of developed nations to honor their commitment to providing 100 billion dollars a year to finance climate action.
Countries still differ over the pace of reductions and funds to be provided to developing nations.
Attention is focused on whether they can reach an agreement on concrete action to address climate change at COP26, which opens in Britain on October 31.
Key words : shibusawa
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An asteroid found between Mars and Jupiter in 1996 has been named after Shibusawa Eiichi, an industrialist known as the father of Japanese capitalism.
The asteroid was discovered by Japanese astronomer Watanabe Kazuo, who lives in Sapporo in the Japanese northernmost prefecture of Hokkaido, and others.
The International Astronomical Union officially decided to name the asteroid "Shibusawaeiichi" on September 2, after Watanabe submitted an application in April, 2020.
Shibusawa, a famed industrialist, was born in 1840 in what is now Fukaya City, Saitama Prefecture. Japan's new 10,000-yen banknote, which is scheduled to enter circulation in the first half of fiscal 2024, will feature Shibusawa.
Fukaya officials had been working to promote their city by naming the asteroid after their favorite son, Shibusawa.
Watanabe was eligible to propose a name for the asteroid as a discoverer. City officials suggested the name of Shibusawa Eiichi to him so the accomplishments of the local hero will be handed down to future generations.
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