A UNESCO committee has decided to give World Heritage status to places linked to the history of Japan's persecuted Christians.
North Korea's state-run media say the country's leader Kim Jong Un inspected a farm in the North Phyongan Province bordering China.
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is planning to visit North Korea next week to discuss details of the North's denuclearization.
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Key words : unesco
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A UNESCO committee has decided to give World Heritage status to places linked to the history of Japan's persecuted Christians.
The World Heritage Committee made the decision at a meeting in Bahrain on Saturday.
The 12 components of "Hidden Christian Sites in the Nagaski Region" are located in Japan's southwestern prefectures of Nagasaki and Kumamoto.
They include "Remains of Hara Castle," "Oura Cathedral" and villages where Christians maintained religious communities.
The sites show the history of people who secretly practiced the Christian faith despite a ban on Christianity from the 17th to 19th centuries.
They handed down their Christian faith from generation to generation while coexisting with conventional Japanese society and its existing religions.
Japan now has 22 World Heritage sites, including 18 cultural properties and 4 natural properties.
Key words : north state-run inspected
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North Korea's state-run media say the country's leader Kim Jong Un inspected a farm in the North Phyongan Province bordering China.
Rodong Sinmun on Saturday published an article on the front page with a photo of Kim inspecting reeds being grown at the farm.
Kim is quoted as saying the supply of fibrous raw material to factories must be secured by stepping up production of reed fibers.
Hwanggumpyong, which is designated as a special economic zone jointly developed by China and North Korea, is in the same region.
The development was launched in 2011 but didn't go as planned.
Kim Song Nam, Vice Director of the International Department of North Korea's ruling Workers' Party, accompanied Kim.
He has been acting as China's point of contact.
On Thursday, China's UN mission and its Russian counterpart submitted to the United Nations Security Council a draft press statement calling for the easing of sanctions on the North.
Kim's visit to the northwestern province may have been carried out with China's economic cooperation in mind.
Key words : house prices
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House prices in one Chinese city near the border with North Korea have been rising, apparently in anticipation of an easing of sanctions on the North.
China's National Bureau of Statistics says new home prices in Dandong, Liaoning Province, jumped 5.3 percent in May from the previous month.
The prices in the city marked the highest rate of increase among 70 major cities in the country for the second straight month.
Dandong is a hub for trade with North Korea. Analysts say people are expecting sanctions against the country will be eased, now that North Korea has held summit meetings with the US and China.
The number of Chinese tourists visiting Dandong has risen sharply since April, as ties between China and North Korea improve. Many people have been seen taking pictures near a border bridge.
A restaurant where North Korean women work is gaining popularity among tourists. The women sing songs praising China's Communist Party to show there are friendly ties between the 2 countries.
Key words : mike planning to visit
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US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is planning to visit North Korea next week to discuss details of the North's denuclearization.
A US government source has told NHK that Pompeo is making arrangements to visit Pyongyang on July 6th and Tokyo on July 7th.
Pompeo is expected to discuss with North Korean officials specific procedures and deadlines for the country's complete denuclearization.
US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un signed a statement following their first meeting on June 12th, but the document is short on specifics.
In the statement, Trump promises to provide security guarantees to North Korea while Kim reaffirms his commitment to complete denuclearization.
Trump has said Pompeo would hold talks soon with North Korean officials.
Key words : families of calling on
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Families of Japanese nationals abducted by North Korea are calling on the government to press the North's leader to return all the abductees as soon as possible.
Members of the families met in Tokyo on Friday. They said the issue has reached a significant turning point, now that it has been raised at the first summit between the US and North Korea.
The participants adopted a resolution to demand that the Japanese government prioritize the return of the abductees and push North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to commit himself to doing so.
The group's leader, Shigeo Iizuka, referred to the abduction of his sister Yaeko Taguchi 40 years ago.
He said he can't believe it's been that long, and that he just prays the abductees will come home soon. He said he can only apologize to them.
He said he wants the government to take action and negotiate, focusing on how to press Kim to commit himself.
Taguchi's eldest son Koichiro Iizuka, who was only a year old when his mother was taken, said his family has suffered for 40 years. He said the families of abductees are not asking North Korea for an investigation report, but are simply seeking the return of all the victims as soon as possible, because they just want to see them.
Sakie Yokota, whose daughter Megumi was abducted at the age of 13, said she prays that this will be an opportunity for many of the abductees to come home. She said she is waiting for the day that all of Japan will rejoice.
Key words : Canada
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Canada is set to impose tariffs on a wide range of US goods on Sunday in retaliation for US levies on steel and aluminum.
Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland announced the move during a news conference on Friday at a factory of a steel manufacturer in the province of Ontario.
Freeland said the retaliatory measure will target about 130 US products, including 25-percent tariffs on steel and aluminum and 10-percent duties on ketchup and toilet paper.
Freeland said the Canadian government is acting very much in sorrow, not in anger. She added that in order to protect Canada's industries and workers, it has no other choice.
The administration of US President Donald Trump implemented the metal tariffs in March, citing threats to national security. It added Canada and Mexico to the list of target countries in June.
In early June, Mexico imposed retaliatory duties on American products.
Mexico and Canada previously had not levied these US products because of the North American Free Trade Agreement.
The two countries say their tariffs will stay in place until the US rescinds its metal duties on their products.
Key words : small rocket enter space
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A small rocket developed by a Japanese startup company has failed to enter space. It was launched on Saturday but fell to the ground, bursting into flames.
Interstellar Technologies, based in the northernmost prefecture of Hokkaido, developed and produced the 10-meter-long rocket.
It was launched around 5:30 AM from a site in the town of Taiki in the prefecture, but fell soon after liftoff.
The company and firefighters say the area within a 600-meter radius of the launch site was cordoned off, and that no one was injured.
Interstellar Technologies has been developing and producing space rockets on its own, and is aiming to become the first private Japanese company to send them more than 100 kilometers above the Earth.
The company's first rocket was launched in July of last year, but it broke at an altitude of 10 kilometers. The company said larger-than-expected force was applied to the rocket.
The company was to launch another rocket in April this year, but canceled it after finding a problem with its body shortly before the scheduled liftoff.
Rocket development in the country has been led by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, a public entity.
Key words : comedian
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Japanese comedian and fashion designer Naomi Watanabe has been chosen by US weekly Time magazine as one of its 25 most influential people on the internet in 2018.
The annual list released Thursday has been compiled since 2015. It rates people by their impact on social media and their ability to drive news.
Watanabe has 8 million Instagram followers. Her bold humor encourages fans to be themselves. She has endorsement deals with major fashion labels and runs her own clothing line, catering to plus-size women.
Time says she is Japan's most popular social media star, and is using her platform to challenge long-held stereotypes about Japanese women.
Watanabe says she wants people to treasure what they have. She says that's how she gained confidence.
Others on Time's list are US President Donald Trump, South Korean pop boy band BTS, and Logan Paul, a YouTuber who upset fans by posting a video of himself discovering an alleged dead body in a forest in Japan.
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