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Key words : prime minister ukrainian president
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20231109_01/
Japan's Prime Minister Kishida Fumio has told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy that foreign ministers of the Group of Seven nations have confirmed their readiness to continue strict sanctions on Russia and assistance for Ukraine.
Kishida and Zelenskyy spoke over the phone for about half an hour Wednesday evening as foreign ministers of the G7 bloc wrapped up their discussions in Tokyo the same day.
Kishida reportedly told the Ukrainian president that Japan will continue its support for his country's energy sector to help people survive the winter.
Tokyo provided Ukraine with two high-power autotransformers in September.
Zelenskyy reportedly expressed deep thanks to Kishida.
The two leaders also agreed to convene the Ukraine Recovery Conference in Tokyo on February 19 next year and to prepare for the event with firms and economic circles.
The gathering will bring together government officials from the two nations.
Kishida and Zelenskyy also agreed to work closely to maintain and strengthen the solidarity of the international community.
Key words : arrested 25 70s
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20231109_04/
Japanese police have arrested 25 suspected members of a fraud ring onboard an aircraft bringing them back to Japan from Cambodia.
Investigative sources say the men, aged in their 20s to 40s, are suspected of swindling a woman in Hokkaido, northern Japan, through a phone scam.
The men arrived at Tokyo's Haneda Airport late Wednesday and have since been transferred to a police station near Tokyo.
Police say the group swindled nearly 3,000 dollars from the woman in her 70s in Hokkaido, falsely claiming she had won the right to move into a nursing home. They say the group tricked her into paying cash to resolve what they said was a dispute with the nursing home in question.
The men are believed to have separately entered Cambodia between March and August. They placed calls to potential victims in Japan, mainly elderly people, from an apartment that served as their hub.
Cambodian authorities detained the men in September.
Police say multiple passports were found bundled in the apartment, suggesting they were confiscated so the men could not flee the country.
They say the men are suspected to have been involved in similar fraud cases in at least eight prefectures that netted over 1.5 million dollars. They aim to unravel the whole picture of the group's scheme.
Key words : xi underscored tightening
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20231108_31/
China's President Xi Jinping has underscored his country's stance of tightening online controls in a video message at an international conference about the internet.
Xi addressed the opening ceremony of the World Internet Conference in the eastern province of Zhejiang by video on Wednesday.
He noted that the internet is becoming a new driving force for development.
Xi stressed the need to respect each country's development paths and governance means for cyberspace, a remark seen as an attempt to justify Beijing's internet regulations.
China blocks access to online services such as search engine Google and video-sharing site YouTube.
There have been a number of cases in which posts on social media that are objectionable to the Chinese government have been deleted, or viewing of such messages has been restricted.
Late last month, China's major social media platforms asked users with at least 500,000 followers to disclose their real names, in response to government policy.
The international community is raising concerns over Beijing's tight grip on the internet. A report released this year by a US-based international human rights group put China's ranking as the world's worst abuser of internet freedom for the ninth consecutive year.
Key words : bus explosion
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20231108_28/
A bus explosion in Afghanistan's capital Kabul has killed at least seven people, including passengers, and injured another 20.
The blast occurred Tuesday afternoon on a running bus that appears to have been crowded with commuters heading home.
The Taliban-controlled police believe a bomb had been planted on the bus.
The incident took place in an area of the capital that is populated mostly by ethnic Hazaras who belong to the country's minority Shia community.
Local media say last month an explosion at a boxing gym killed four people there.
The Hazara people have been targeted by Islamic State militants, who see Shia Muslims as their enemy.
Reuters news agency reports the group has claimed responsibility for Tuesday's attack.
Key words : north handed down
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20231108_26/
North Korea says sending over anti-Pyongyang leaflets from South Korea across the border is effectively considered a preemptive attack against the North.
North Korea reacted sharply to a ruling handed down by South Korea's Constitutional Court in September.
The court ruled the provision of a South Korean law that bans launching propaganda leaflets into the North is unconstitutional, saying it excessively restricts the right to freedom of expression.
A commentary on Wednesday by the North's state-run Korean Central News Agency said leaflet-scattering is a high-level psychological warfare and, in fact, a preemptive attack conducted before the start of war.
It also said when a hostile psychological warfare is conducted in the border area, there is no guarantee that military conflicts such as in Europe and the Middle East would not break out on the Korean peninsula.
In 2020, North Korea blew up an inter-Korean liaison office in the border city of Kaesong in protest against a leaflet campaign by a group of North Korean defectors in the South. The group released air balloons carrying leaflets critical of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
South Korea's Yonhap News Agency reported a view from an expert that the ruling may have North Korea concerned about a possible full-fledged resumption of South Korean psychological warfare operations.
Key words : osaka
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20231108_21/
Police in Osaka Prefecture, western Japan, have reported a surge in the misuse of bank and other accounts held by foreign nationals in phone scams, nearly tripling over the past three years.
The police said such fraud cases in the prefecture have been increasing at the fastest pace ever. They identified 2,051 cases from the beginning of this year through the end of September. The damage from these thefts amounted to about 18 million dollars.
They said that of the roughly 1,600 confirmed accounts used to receive fraudulent cash, 312, or 20 percent, had foreign names.
Investigative sources said the nationalities of the foreign people appear diverse, with a Vietnamese surname being the most prevalent, accounting for 50 cases.
The police said the accounts were opened at financial institutions across Japan.
They suspect that the growth in the number of foreign nationals' accounts used in scam cases may be linked to the illegal practice of buying and selling accounts, possibly involving foreign students or trainees leaving Japan.
Such accounts are reportedly being traded on social media for several hundred dollars each.
The police are intensifying efforts to crack down on the transactions. They are also urging the public, especially the elderly, not to follow instructions over the phone to transfer money to foreign nationals' accounts.
Key words : myanmar
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20231108_33/
Wednesday marks the third anniversary of the general election in Myanmar that triggered a coup by the ruling military. The junta says it will hold a "fair election," so that power can be transferred to a civilian government. But it is unclear when an election will take place, as the military and pro-democracy forces are still fighting.
The National League for Democracy, or NLD, won the 2020 national election in a landslide. The party was led by Aung San Suu Kyi.
But the coup has plunged the country into turmoil. The junta seized power, after it claimed that there were irregularities in the 2020 contest. Pro-democracy forces and ethnic minority groups have been fighting against the junta since then.
A representative of a human rights group says it will be difficult for Myanmar to hold a general election as long as the battles continue. Ko Bo Kyi works for the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners. He said that people do not trust the military because the results of the 2020 election were ignored.
The junta originally said it would hold a general election by August 2023. But it extended the state of emergency by six months again in August. The emergency declaration must be lifted in order for an election to be held. The country's state-run media quoted the junta leader as saying that it is too early to hold elections.
The junta dissolved the NLD and some other parties in March. The move is believed to be aimed at enabling the military to prolong its grip on power.
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