North Korea has asked that talks on sending a high-ranking delegation to South Korea for the upcoming Winter Games be postponed.
US President Donald Trump has announced his "Fake News Awards" to the media for what he sees as incorrect coverage of himself and his administration.
Japan's space agency has successfully launched its Epsilon-3 small rocket.
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Key words : north asked ranking
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20180118_16/
North Korea has asked that talks on sending a high-ranking delegation to South Korea for the upcoming Winter Games be postponed.
The 2 Koreas agreed on a visit by high-ranking North Korean officials to next month's PyeongChang Olympics at their ministerial talks on January 9th.
But South Korea's Unification Ministry has revealed that the 2 sides did not discuss the matter at Wednesday's vice-ministerial talks due to a request by the North to delay discussions.
South Korean media say the North is waiting to see who the other countries will send, to maximize the political impact of its delegation.
For the 2014 Asian Games in Incheon, North Korea sent high-level officials to the closing ceremony.
At that time, Workers' Party Vice Chairman Choe Ryong Hae met with senior South Korean officials during their visit.
Regarding the PyeongChang Olympics, South Koreans have listed Vice Chairman Choe, the chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly Kim Yong Nam and leader Kim Jong Un's younger sister Kim Yo Jong among possible high-ranking officials to be sent to the South.
The 2 Koreas agreed on a visit by high-ranking North Korean officials to next month's PyeongChang Olympics at their ministerial talks on January 9th.
But South Korea's Unification Ministry has revealed that the 2 sides did not discuss the matter at Wednesday's vice-ministerial talks due to a request by the North to delay discussions.
South Korean media say the North is waiting to see who the other countries will send, to maximize the political impact of its delegation.
For the 2014 Asian Games in Incheon, North Korea sent high-level officials to the closing ceremony.
At that time, Workers' Party Vice Chairman Choe Ryong Hae met with senior South Korean officials during their visit.
Regarding the PyeongChang Olympics, South Koreans have listed Vice Chairman Choe, the chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly Kim Yong Nam and leader Kim Jong Un's younger sister Kim Yo Jong among possible high-ranking officials to be sent to the South.
Key words : south newspaper
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20180118_14/
South Korean newspapers have given mixed reactions to the agreements made during Inter-Korean talks, including delegates marching together under a "unified flag" at the opening ceremony for the PyeongChang Winter Olympics.
North and South Korea agreed on an 11-point joint statement after Wednesday's vice-ministerial talks held in the truce village of Panmunjom.
The statement says the 2 countries will form a joint women's hockey team. They also will march together under a unified flag, instead of their respective national flags at the opening ceremony.
In the editorial of its Thursday edition, the left-wing daily Hankyoreh welcomed the outcome of the talks as a step toward peace. It said South Korea should accelerate efforts to open the door for reconciliation in the wake of the Olympics.
Conservative newspaper Chosun Ilbo pointed out that North and South Korea have marched together under one flag at international meets before, but that hasn't stopped Pyongyang from developing its nuclear and missile program. The paper said a unified flag is merely a tool to deceive South Korea.
Another conservative paper, Dong-A Ilbo, said the South Korean government's payment of expenses of the North's Olympic delegation's stay could contradict international sanctions against the North. It stresses that South Korea should not get so excited about improved inter-Korean relations as to cause a rift in international cooperation.
North and South Korea agreed on an 11-point joint statement after Wednesday's vice-ministerial talks held in the truce village of Panmunjom.
The statement says the 2 countries will form a joint women's hockey team. They also will march together under a unified flag, instead of their respective national flags at the opening ceremony.
In the editorial of its Thursday edition, the left-wing daily Hankyoreh welcomed the outcome of the talks as a step toward peace. It said South Korea should accelerate efforts to open the door for reconciliation in the wake of the Olympics.
Conservative newspaper Chosun Ilbo pointed out that North and South Korea have marched together under one flag at international meets before, but that hasn't stopped Pyongyang from developing its nuclear and missile program. The paper said a unified flag is merely a tool to deceive South Korea.
Another conservative paper, Dong-A Ilbo, said the South Korean government's payment of expenses of the North's Olympic delegation's stay could contradict international sanctions against the North. It stresses that South Korea should not get so excited about improved inter-Korean relations as to cause a rift in international cooperation.
Key words : Trump announced fake
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20180118_23/
US President Donald Trump has announced his "Fake News Awards" to the media for what he sees as incorrect coverage of himself and his administration.
Trump tweeted the list of winners on Wednesday.
Heading the list of 11 news items was a New York Times' story claiming, upon Trump's presidential election victory, that the economy will never recover.
Number 2 on the list was an ABC News report in December that linked Trump to allegations that Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election. ABC suspended the investigative reporter who covered the story for the error.
News coverage by CNN and Washington Post also made it on the list.
The website announcing the winners says "2017 was a year of unrelenting bias, unfair news coverage, and even downright fake news."
Many media outlets have called the awards an attack by Trump to undermine trust in the media.
Trump tweeted the list of winners on Wednesday.
Heading the list of 11 news items was a New York Times' story claiming, upon Trump's presidential election victory, that the economy will never recover.
Number 2 on the list was an ABC News report in December that linked Trump to allegations that Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election. ABC suspended the investigative reporter who covered the story for the error.
News coverage by CNN and Washington Post also made it on the list.
The website announcing the winners says "2017 was a year of unrelenting bias, unfair news coverage, and even downright fake news."
Many media outlets have called the awards an attack by Trump to undermine trust in the media.
Key words : chinese official
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20180118_28/
Chinese officials have released gross domestic product figures for 2017 that show that the country's economy grew slightly faster than in 2016.
It's the first time in 7 years that the annual growth rate was higher than the previous year.
Officials at the National Bureau of Statistics say GDP grew by 6.9 percent.
That's up 0.2 percentage points from 2016.
It's also above the government's annual growth target of around 6.5 percent.
It's the first time in 7 years that the annual growth rate was higher than the previous year.
Officials at the National Bureau of Statistics say GDP grew by 6.9 percent.
That's up 0.2 percentage points from 2016.
It's also above the government's annual growth target of around 6.5 percent.
Key words : Japan space agency nec
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20180118_08/
Japan's space agency has successfully launched its Epsilon-3 small rocket, carrying an Earth observation satellite developed by Japanese electronics firm NEC.
The launch took place at 6:06 AM on Thursday Japan time from the Uchinoura Space Center in the southern prefecture of Kagoshima.
The Earth observation satellite ASNARO-2 is the Epsilon's first payload commissioned by the private sector.
The rocket put the satellite into Earth orbit at an altitude of around 500 kilometers shortly before 7 AM.
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, JAXA, developed the new small rocket to reduce the launch cost of smaller satellites. Demand for such satellites is rising among emerging countries.
The launch cost of the Epsilon-3 is estimated at about 36 million dollars, roughly half the cost of conventional rockets.
JAXA says it expects a successful launch would result in orders from emerging countries.
The launch took place at 6:06 AM on Thursday Japan time from the Uchinoura Space Center in the southern prefecture of Kagoshima.
The Earth observation satellite ASNARO-2 is the Epsilon's first payload commissioned by the private sector.
The rocket put the satellite into Earth orbit at an altitude of around 500 kilometers shortly before 7 AM.
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, JAXA, developed the new small rocket to reduce the launch cost of smaller satellites. Demand for such satellites is rising among emerging countries.
The launch cost of the Epsilon-3 is estimated at about 36 million dollars, roughly half the cost of conventional rockets.
JAXA says it expects a successful launch would result in orders from emerging countries.
Key words : Insight rocket meaning
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Key words : Japan protested helicopter
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20180118_29/
Japan has protested to the US military after its helicopters flew over an elementary school in Okinawa Prefecture where a window from a US chopper fell on a playground last month.
Japan's Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera said ministry officials and security cameras confirmed the flights of 3 US Marine Corps helicopters on Thursday afternoon.
Onodera said he immediately lodged a strong protest with Deputy Commander of US Forces in Japan Charles Chiarotti.
The minister told him it is regrettable that US military aircraft again flew over the school despite Japan's request to stop such flights.
The school is next to the US Marine Corps Futenma air station in Ginowan City.
Students at the school had taken part in an evacuation drill to protect themselves from falling objects just hours before the flights. The exercise was a step toward resuming use of the playground.
Onodera said the helicopters should not have passed over the school just after the drill. He said he conveyed to Chiarotti that not just the people in Okinawa but the entire Japanese nation is enraged.
Japan's Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera said ministry officials and security cameras confirmed the flights of 3 US Marine Corps helicopters on Thursday afternoon.
Onodera said he immediately lodged a strong protest with Deputy Commander of US Forces in Japan Charles Chiarotti.
The minister told him it is regrettable that US military aircraft again flew over the school despite Japan's request to stop such flights.
The school is next to the US Marine Corps Futenma air station in Ginowan City.
Students at the school had taken part in an evacuation drill to protect themselves from falling objects just hours before the flights. The exercise was a step toward resuming use of the playground.
Onodera said the helicopters should not have passed over the school just after the drill. He said he conveyed to Chiarotti that not just the people in Okinawa but the entire Japanese nation is enraged.
Key words : number criminal dropped
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20180118_15/
The number of criminal offenses in Japan has dropped to a record low last year, based on data available since 1946.
The National Police Agency says there were 915,111 cases of criminal offenses in 2017, down more than 81,000, or 8.1 percent from the previous year. The figure marks a 15th straight annual decline.
The agency says that the number of serious crimes such as homicide, robbery and sexual assault declined to 10,889, the lowest in the past 5 years.
Burglaries and other thefts set a new low at 655,541.
But, abduction and kidnapping associated with social networking services, including those involving girls, increased to a 5-year-high of 239 cases.
Money transfer scams and other fraud-related intellectual crimes were also up for a 2nd year in a row at more than 47,000 cases.
Criminal offenses have been in steady decline from a peak of about 2.85 million cases in 2002. It dipped below 1 million for the first time in 2016.
Over the past 5 years, thefts declined by 33 percent. This type of crime accounts for 70 percent of all criminal offenses.
Robberies also declined by 44 percent, but fraud cases rose by 11 percent.
The police clear up rate, in which suspects had been identified in 35.7 percent of robberies and cases of fraud, was the highest level in 5 years. The rate for murder, robbery, arson and other serious crimes surged to 80.3 percent, surpassing 80 percent for the first time in 19 years.
The agency attributes the decline in criminal offenses and the improved clear up rate to the spread of security cameras and more crime prevention volunteers. They say they will make more effort to crack down on rampant money transfer frauds.
The National Police Agency says there were 915,111 cases of criminal offenses in 2017, down more than 81,000, or 8.1 percent from the previous year. The figure marks a 15th straight annual decline.
The agency says that the number of serious crimes such as homicide, robbery and sexual assault declined to 10,889, the lowest in the past 5 years.
Burglaries and other thefts set a new low at 655,541.
But, abduction and kidnapping associated with social networking services, including those involving girls, increased to a 5-year-high of 239 cases.
Money transfer scams and other fraud-related intellectual crimes were also up for a 2nd year in a row at more than 47,000 cases.
Criminal offenses have been in steady decline from a peak of about 2.85 million cases in 2002. It dipped below 1 million for the first time in 2016.
Over the past 5 years, thefts declined by 33 percent. This type of crime accounts for 70 percent of all criminal offenses.
Robberies also declined by 44 percent, but fraud cases rose by 11 percent.
The police clear up rate, in which suspects had been identified in 35.7 percent of robberies and cases of fraud, was the highest level in 5 years. The rate for murder, robbery, arson and other serious crimes surged to 80.3 percent, surpassing 80 percent for the first time in 19 years.
The agency attributes the decline in criminal offenses and the improved clear up rate to the spread of security cameras and more crime prevention volunteers. They say they will make more effort to crack down on rampant money transfer frauds.
Key words : Toshiba
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20180118_21/
Struggling electronics firm Toshiba is likely to clear a major hurdle toward rebuilding its finances.
Officials at Toshiba say they have signed a deal to sell claims in bankrupt US nuclear group Westinghouse, a former subsidiary. The buyer is an American investment firm.
They say the move will contribute to an improvement of about 3.7 billion dollars in Toshiba's balance sheet. The sale is expected to be completed by the end of this month.
Toshiba had earlier estimated it could fall into negative net worth of about 6.7 billion dollars at the end of this March.
But the officials say that will likely be avoided, thanks to the sale of the claims, as well as an increase of more than 5 billion dollars in capital last month.
The Toshiba executives are also putting the finishing touches on the sale of their chip subsidiary. They want to complete the deal by the end of March.
Now, the major challenge for the firm is to clear anti-trust screenings by the countries involved before the sale can be wrapped up.
Officials at Toshiba say they have signed a deal to sell claims in bankrupt US nuclear group Westinghouse, a former subsidiary. The buyer is an American investment firm.
They say the move will contribute to an improvement of about 3.7 billion dollars in Toshiba's balance sheet. The sale is expected to be completed by the end of this month.
Toshiba had earlier estimated it could fall into negative net worth of about 6.7 billion dollars at the end of this March.
But the officials say that will likely be avoided, thanks to the sale of the claims, as well as an increase of more than 5 billion dollars in capital last month.
The Toshiba executives are also putting the finishing touches on the sale of their chip subsidiary. They want to complete the deal by the end of March.
Now, the major challenge for the firm is to clear anti-trust screenings by the countries involved before the sale can be wrapped up.
Key words : robot manufacture
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