Key words : G7 indo-pacific first day
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Kishida arrives in Italy to attend G7 summit
Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio has arrived in Italy to attend a Group of Seven summit.
Kishida arrived in the southern region of Puglia on Wednesday night. The summit begins Thursday.
The G7 leaders are expected to discuss regional issues, including Ukraine, the Middle East and the Indo-Pacific. Economic security, artificial intelligence, climate change and other topics will also likely be on the agenda.
Kishida plans to explain Japan's actions and stances, based on the achievements of last year's G7 summit in Hiroshima.
Topics for the first day will include the Middle East and Ukraine. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy plans to join the session on his country's situation in person.
Kishida will explain Japan's stance on the handling of Russian assets frozen by sanctions and suggest ways to provide assistance to Ukraine.
On economic security, Kishida plans to express Japan's concern about overproduction in China and stress the importance of a rules-based free and fair economic order.
Kishida also plans to say Japan will continue to play a central role in building an international framework for rules on artificial intelligence.
Key words : former Fujisaki Ichiro
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2024 G7 Summit kicks off amid conflicts in Ukraine, Gaza
G7 leaders have much to discuss at this year's summit in Italy. But does the group still have a role on the world stage today? Fujisaki Ichiro, a former Japanese ambassador to the US, explains what's at stake.
Key words : ukraine security agreement
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US, Ukraine to sign bilateral security agreement
A senior White House official says US President Joe Biden and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will sign a bilateral security agreement when they meet on the sidelines of the Group of Seven summit in Italy.
Biden is scheduled to meet Zelenskyy on Thursday.
So far 15 countries, including Britain and France, have signed bilateral agreements with Ukraine to ensure the country's long-term security.
The agreements are based on a joint declaration issued at last year's G7 summit in Hiroshima.
White House National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan spoke to reporters on board Air Force One en route to Italy.
He said, "We outline a clear vision of work with our allies and partners with Ukraine in order to continue to strengthen Ukraine's credible defense and deterrence capability."
Sullivan pledged long-term US support for Ukraine's fight against Russian aggression.
However, he stressed the agreement does not include any commitment to using US forces to defend Ukraine.
Key words : south newspaper
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S.Korean daily: Japan and N.Korea made contact in Mongolia in May
A leading South Korean newspaper has reported that officials from Japan and North Korea made contact last month in Mongolia.
The JoongAng Ilbo on Thursday quoted multiple sources as saying the two sides made contact in a region near the capital Ulaanbaatar in mid-May.
It reported that three North Korean officials from the country's spy agency, the Reconnaissance General Bureau and the body in charge of obtaining foreign currency were at the meeting. It said the Japanese delegation included a politician.
One of the sources told the newspaper the two sides were to meet again in China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region in the latter half of last week. But it is not known whether that meeting actually happened.
Observers had been focused on whether Japanese and North Korean authorities would make contact at an international conference on Northeast Asian security last week in Mongolia. But the North did not send a delegation.
Kim Yo Jong, the younger sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, issued a statement in March rejecting any contact or negotiation with the Japanese side.
The JoongAng Ilbo says the North may be searching for various ways to break through its economic and diplomatic difficulties.
Key words : hayashi contact north
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Key words : tokyo police singapore
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Tokyo police refer ex-Singapore counselor to prosecutors over naked teen video
Tokyo police have sent papers to prosecutors on a former counselor at the Embassy of Singapore in Japan who is alleged to have secretly filmed a naked teenager at a public bath in the capital.
The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department referred Sim Siong Chye to prosecutors on Thursday on suspicion of violating laws banning child pornography and others.
Police say the 55-year-old allegedly took the video of a boy and others with a smartphone in a bathhouse changing room in February. The man was working at the embassy at the time.
Police rushed to the scene after receiving a call from a bathhouse employee. During questioning, the man reportedly admitted to filming the video, but refused to voluntarily accompany officers to a police station or submit his smartphone, citing his diplomatic immunity from arrest.
He returned to Singapore in April.
Tokyo police asked the man to turn himself in through Japan's Foreign Ministry in May. He reportedly agreed to the request and came to Japan this month.
Diplomats are exempt from being prosecuted in their host country. Police say the man no longer has diplomatic immunity.
The former counselor reportedly told investigators during voluntary questioning that he had taken videos several times. The man said he came to Japan to express his regret and speak as an ordinary citizen.
The man also reportedly explained that he filmed the video to watch it later by himself, and that he had no intention of targeting children.
Police say it is unusual for diplomats to return to their host countries to respond to police questioning over alleged misconduct.
Key words : defense ministry deep-sea
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Sources: Deep-sea search to begin for missing MSDF helicopters
NHK has learned that the search for two Maritime Self-Defense Force helicopters that crashed into the Pacific in April will start next month. An unmanned deep-sea vehicle that can dive at a depth of up to 6,000 meters will be used.
Sources have told NHK that the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, or JAMSTEC, will begin the search as early as the start of July, at the request of Japan's Defense Ministry.
Two MSDF helicopters collided and crashed into waters off Torishima Island in the Izu Islands during nighttime training on April 20. Of the eight crew members on board, one was confirmed dead shortly after. The MSDF declared the seven other members dead on Tuesday.
Flight recorders from both helicopters and pieces of the aircraft have been retrieved. But their main parts are believed to be lying on the seabed at a depth of about 5,500 meters.
Sources say that JAMSTEC will use Deep Tow, a deep ocean floor survey system equipped with sonar and cameras, to search a wide area of the ocean floor.
Deep Tow has often been used in underwater searches in past accidents.
Following the collision between a MSDF Aegis vessel and a fishing boat in 2008, Deep Tow discovered parts of the sunken fishing boat at a depth of over 1,800 meters.
In 1999, it found an engine of an H2 rocket, which crashed into the sea after a failed launch, in waters about 3,000 meters deep off the Ogasawara Islands.
Key words : global weather Yuumi Hirano
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