Japan's prime minister has reshuffled his Cabinet. He appointed a dozen first-time ministers, while leaving in places cabinet members in number of key roles.
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Tokyo Electric Power Company has admitted that much of the water stored at its Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant had not been treated completely enough for release into the environment.
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Key words : prime reshuffle role
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Japan's prime minister has reshuffled his Cabinet. Shinzo Abe appointed a dozen first-time ministers, while keeping several central roles unchanged. It follows his re-election as Liberal Democratic Party leader last month, where he won a third and final term despite recent scandals.
Takashi Yamashita is justice minister. He belongs to an intraparty faction led by Abe's sole challenger from the leadership vote.
The new defense minister is Takeshi Iwaya. He held the job of deputy foreign minister over a decade ago.
Upper House lawmaker Satsuki Katayama is enlisted as regional revitalization minister. She's the only woman in the new Cabinet.
Masatoshi Ishida will now serve as internal affairs and communications minister.
Masahiko Shibayama is the new education, culture, sports, science and technology minister.
Takamori Yoshikawa has worked in agriculture policy reform in the party and is taking on that role.
The new environment minister is Yoshiaki Harada.
Hiromichi Watanabe was appointed to oversee reconstruction efforts in areas devastated by the 2011 disasters in northeastern Japan.
Junzo Yamamoto is in charge of police administration.
Mitsuhiro Miyakoshi will now lead efforts to maintain and promote a resilient economy in the aging Japanese society.
Takuya Hirai is in charge of information technology policy.
Yoshitaka Sakurada is in charge of preparations for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics.
Abe's retaining 6 key ministers. They include finance, foreign affairs and economy, as well as the land minister, the only minister from the LDP's junior coalition partner, Komeito. Abe's chief Cabinet Secretary and his economic revitalization minister will also stay put.
Abe is also bringing back a familiar face to the post of Health, Labor and Welfare minister. Takumi Nemoto served as reconstruction minister from 2012 to 2014.
Key words : scientist recipient
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Key words : Honjo congratulate discovery
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Japanese molecular immunologist Tasuku Honjo is being congratulated for winning this year's Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine by a cancer patient whose life was saved by his discovery.
The distinguished professor of Kyoto University and Professor James Allison at the University of Texas were jointly awarded for their research that led to a revolutionary cancer therapy.
Honjo discovered a protein that helped lead to immunotherapeutic methods of cancer treatment and the development of an anti-cancer drug marketed as Opdivo.
More than 25,000 people in Japan have used the medicine to treat lung, stomach and other types of cancer.
Koichi Shimizu, who lives in Chiba Prefecture near Tokyo, is one of them. He was diagnosed with lung cancer at the age of 35.
He underwent surgery, but the cancer spread to his brain and adrenal gland. Doctors said a surgical operation could not be applied to the metastases.
After taking various drugs and other options and finding no relief, Shimizu finally tried the newly-developed Opdivo.
After being on it for 2 years, his tumors became smaller. Shimizu now leads an ordinary life like any other healthy person, with his wife and 2 sons.
Shimizu was excited to see Honjo win the award, and said he is still alive and able to see his children grow up thanks to Opdivo and Honjo. He said he wants to offer his heartfelt gratitude to Honjo.
Key words : texas professor further
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University of Texas Professor James Allison says he hopes his winning of the Nobel Prize will lead to further research on immune therapies to treat cancer.
Allison spoke at a conference on cancer research in New York on Monday after he was named the co-winner of this year's Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Allison said he hopes the prize will be an inspiration for people working in the field of immunotherapy, who are trying to do good for cancer patients.
Allison is sharing the prize with Tasuku Honjo, Distinguished Professor at Kyoto University, for their studies of proteins that act as brakes on the body's immune system.
Two types of cancer drugs that were developed from their research are now subject to more than 1,100 clinical trials to see if they can be used safely and effectively for breast, pancreas and other types of cancer.
Cost is a major impediment for patients despite the increasing attention being paid to this field of cancer treatment. A new type of immune therapy for leukemia is said to cost about 440,000 dollars for a single course of treatment.
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Key words : typhoon without electricity
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Typhoon Trami has left hundreds of thousands of households in central Japan without electricity.
The powerful storm tore across the archipelago from Sunday into Monday morning.
It caused a massive blackout in Shizuoka Prefecture, where there were power cuts in more than 700,000 homes. The outage hit over 40 percent of households whose power is supplied by Chubu Electric Power Company.
The power cuts also resulted in local police mobilizing officers for traffic control, as about 1,800 traffic lights stopped working.
The operator of a fish wholesale market in Hamamatsu City suspended shipping and closed a large freezer to keep fishery products fresh during the outage.
As of 5 AM on Tuesday, some 200,000 households in Shizuoka and more than 19,000 households in Aichi and Mie Prefectures were still without power.
Chubu Electric Power Company says it will take several more days to repair power grids and fully restore electricity.
Key words : tokyo electric water
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Tokyo Electric Power Company has admitted that much of the water stored at its Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant had not been treated completely enough for release into the environment.
How to dispose of an ever-increasing amount of radioactive water at the plant is a big issue. The contaminated water is generated daily in the process of cooling the damaged reactors.
Before being stored in tanks at the plant, the water undergoes treatment that is supposed to get rid of all radioactive substances but tritium. Tritium is difficult to remove.
One of the disposal ideas is to release the water still containing tritium into the sea.
But many at a public hearing in August opposed to the plan. Some people pointed that the water in question also contains other radioactive elements.
At a meeting of experts in Tokyo on Monday, the utility officials reported that as of August, there was 890,000 tons of such water at the plant.
They said they suspect that more than 80 percent of the water contained not only tritium but also other radioactive substances, such as iodine and strontium, and that their levels exceeded the limits for release into the environment.
A senior Tokyo Electric official apologized, saying his company was too focused on the issue of tritium and failed to provide a full explanation.
Key words : Trump tariff policies
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US President Donald Trump has said his tariff policies helped to bring about a revised trade deal with Canada and Mexico. He suggested he might use the same strategy in trade talks with Japan.
Trump spoke to reporters on Monday, after the conclusion of the new US-Mexico-Canada Agreement the day before.
The new pact -- a reworking of the North American Free Trade Agreement -- includes a cap on auto exports from Mexico and Canada.
Trump said, "Without tariffs we wouldn't be talking about a deal."
He also said Japan agreed to begin negotiating a bilateral trade pact on goods because of his threats to impose higher tariffs on Japanese auto imports.
Key words : high-ranking
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A high-ranking Russian government official has somewhat played down the significance of President Vladimir Putin's proposal that a peace treaty with Japan be signed without any preconditions by the end of the year.
There has been a good deal of speculation about the true intent of Putin's proposal since he first made it at an international conference in Vladivostok last month.
Putin's idea apparently runs counter to Japan's stance that it will conclude a peace pact only after the issue of the attribution of the Northern Territories is resolved. Russia controls the 4 islands. Japan claims them.
The Russian official told NHK that there weren't any prepared texts when Putin made the remarks.
The official suggested Putin may have put forward the idea impromptu, because Abe had just called on Russia to cooperate in concluding a peace treaty in the presence of Chinese President Xi Jinping and other participants.
The official said the Russian side had difficulty understanding why Abe made such an appeal.
The official said Moscow had believed that a peace treaty should be discussed between the 2 countries and that Putin and Abe had constructive discussions on the matter during their bilateral meeting.
But the official also said that despite all this, Putin well understands Abe's eagerness to resolve the issue of the Northern Territories. The official added that even if Japan doesn't accept Putin's proposal, the move is unlikely to have an effect on future dialogue between the 2 countries.
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