US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will visit North Korea on Sunday to meet the country's leader, Kim Jong Un.
Japan's top government spokesperson says US Secretary of State Pompeo will stop over in Japan ahead of his visit on Sunday to North Korea.
The Japanese government has lodged a protest with China after learning it placed a buoy inside Japan's exclusive economic zone near the Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea.
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Key words : mike to meet the country
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US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will visit North Korea on Sunday to meet the country's leader, Kim Jong Un.
State Department Spokesperson Heather Nauert announced the plan on Tuesday. Pompeo last visited the North in July.
Pompeo is expected to discuss the North's denuclearization and lay the groundwork for the second US-North Korea summit. US President Donald Trump has indicated that the meeting will take place soon.
Nauert said Pompeo will also travel to Japan on Saturday to meet Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Foreign Minister Taro Kono.
Pompeo is scheduled to visit South Korea and China from Sunday through Monday.
Nauert also said that the US is looking forward to the "next steps in this conversation."
Trump appears keen to emphasize to voters that he is on good terms with Kim in the run-up to next month's midterm elections.
Pyongyang, on the other hand, has expressed its readiness to denuclearize if the US takes reciprocal steps.
Key words : spokesperson stop over in
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Japan's top government spokesperson says US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will stop over in Japan ahead of his visit on Sunday to North Korea.
Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga told reporters that Pompeo will arrive in Japan on Saturday and meet with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Foreign Minister Taro Kono.
Pompeo is to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in his planned visit to the North, and lay the groundwork for the second US-North Korea summit.
Suga said Japan expects Pompeo's upcoming visit to the North will facilitate a full and swift implementation of the agreement made at the first summit. He said this includes Pyongyang's commitment toward completely denuclearizing the Korean Peninsula.
Key words : Japanese protest
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The Japanese government has lodged a protest with China after learning it placed a buoy inside Japan's exclusive economic zone near the Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea.
Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga spoke to reporters on Wednesday. He said the government protested via a diplomatic channel after it confirmed the buoy was on the Japanese side of a median line that separates the 2 countries' exclusive economic zones.
Japan controls the islands. The government maintains the islands are an inherent part of Japan's territory. China and Taiwan claim them.
The Japanese Foreign Ministry says an embassy counselor in Beijing filed the protest with the Chinese Foreign Ministry. It states that China placed the buoy without obtaining approval from Japan.
Suga was asked his opinion of China's move at a time when bilateral relations are improving. He said that it's normal for Japan to firmly state its position without regard to which country is involved.
Key words : secretary general warned
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The Secretary General of the United Nations has warned that the Rohingya crisis in Myanmar could open the door to terrorism if things don't improve.
Antonio Guterres spoke at an event in New Delhi on Tuesday.
He said terrorist groups may use the situation to their benefit if the discrimination against the Rohingya persists and that this could impact not only Myanmar and Bangladesh but the region as a whole.
Guterres also called on Myanmar's neighbors to help the Rohingya.
He said that countries like India and China have good relations with Myanmar and are in a position to exert pressure.
The appeal comes as India is preparing to deport 40,000 Rohingya who have fled Myanmar in recent years.
The UN says about 700,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled to Bangladesh since a military clearance campaign began in August last year.
UN investigators have concluded that Myanmar's military carried out torture, rape and mass killings. It defines these actions as "genocide" and "crimes against humanity."
Myanmar's government has denied all the allegations.
Key words : indonesia disaster management volcano
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Indonesia's National Agency for Disaster Management reports that a volcano has erupted in northern Sulawesi.
Mount Soputan in North Sulawesi Province erupted at 8:47 AM on Wednesday local time.
A column of volcanic ash reportedly reached an altitude of 5,800 meters. The volcano is 1,800 meters high.
The agency said on its official Twitter account that areas outside a radius of 4 kilometers of the crater are safe.
Volcanic activity at the mountain has been increasing since August. Authorities raised its alert level earlier in the day before the eruption.
The volcano is about 600 kilometers east-northeast of Palu, the city hit hard by a powerful earthquake and tsunami on Friday.
Key words : survivor earthquake and tsunami facing a severe
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Survivors of last Friday's powerful earthquake and tsunami in the Indonesian island of Sulawesi are facing a severe shortage of fuel, on top of a lack of food and water.
A magnitude 7.5 tremor hit the island on September 28th, followed by a tsunami. Authorities say 1,234 deaths have been confirmed so far, and more than 60,000 survivors have been forced to evacuate.
The disaster has cut off roads to the affected areas, making it difficult to carry in much needed supplies.
Lack of fuel is hampering search and rescue operations for those possibly still trapped under collapsed buildings, as heavy machinery cannot be operated without gasoline.
Many survivors also need fuel for their vehicles to pick up relief supplies at designated areas.
In the hard-hit city of Palu, people were seen scooping up gasoline from an underground tank of a gasoline station, as power outage has stopped the pumps. They were using a plastic bottle attached to the end of a long stick.
Indonesia's National Agency for Disaster Management has stressed that it is doing everything in its power to tackle the fuel shortage.
The agency tweeted on Wednesday that 10 tank lorries have already arrived in Palu, and more fuel is being sent by sea and air.
Key words : indonesian president held news conference
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Key words : Japan plans to send
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Japan plans to send an Air Self-Defense Force transport aircraft to help with relief efforts on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi.
The Defense Ministry decided on Wednesday to send the C-130 transport plane. New defense minister Takeshi Iwaya issued the order.
The aircraft is to leave Japan on the day, and help carry supplies from Kalimantan to Sulawesi.
A related relief unit is to consist of about 50 Self-Defense Force personnel, including those tasked with damage assessment.
Central Sulawesi was devastated by a magnitude-7.5 earthquake and ensuing tsunami last Friday.
Efforts to deliver relief supplies to survivors have been hampered by cut-off roads.
Iwaya told reporters that speed is a priority, and that his ministry will do all it can to help affected people in Indonesia.
Key words : tens of thousands
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Tens of thousands of homes in central Japan are still without power due to the recent typhoon. Chubu Electric Power Company expects that it will take until Thursday to fully restore electricity.
Typhoon Trami, which crossed Japan over the weekend, caused blackouts in several prefectures. One of the hardest-hit was Shizuoka, where power outages affected more than 700,000 homes.
The power company says that as of 11AM on Wednesday, more than 45,000 homes in the central and western parts of the prefecture were still without power. They include the prefectural capital of Shizuoka and the major city of Hamamatsu.
The outage has disrupted water supplies in some areas as the pumps are not working. Municipalities have dispatched supply vehicles and are providing water at distribution points.
Police say some traffic signals have failed, and are calling on drivers to slow down at intersections and be sure it is safe to proceed.
Blackouts are also continuing in Aichi and Nagano prefectures.
Key words : typhoon southern Okinawa
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Weather officials say a large, very strong typhoon will come very close to Japan's southern prefecture of Okinawa on Thursday night.
The Meteorological Agency says Typhoon Kong-rey was heading northwest over the sea south of Okinawa as of 3 PM, on Wednesday.
It had a central atmospheric pressure of 940 hectopascals and was packing winds of up to 162 kilometers an hour near its center.
Agency officials say the storm will continue advancing north. They say it will be closest to Okinawa from Thursday night to Friday, remaining in its storm zone.
Weather officials are calling on people in Okinawa and the Amami region in Kagoshima Prefecture to stay alert for violent winds and high waves, as well as mudslides, flooding in low-lying areas and overflowing rivers triggered by heavy rain.
The storm will then likely change direction to the northeast, moving over the sea from the west of Kyushu, to near the Sea of Japan on Saturday. Weather officials say it could affect wide areas from western to northern Japan.
The officials are asking people to keep up to date with the latest information.
Key words : co-winner donate
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The Japanese co-winner of this year's Nobel Prize for medicine reportedly plans to donate the prize money to his university to support young researchers.
Tasuku Honjo, a distinguished professor at Kyoto University, was named the co-winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine on Monday. He was recognized for his work on using the immune system to fight cancer.
Honjo told reporters on Tuesday that he wants to give back what he has accomplished to his university to help nurture his successors.
Kyoto University sources say Honjo indicated that he will donate his prize money to the university.
They also say that Honjo wants the university to set up a fund to support young researchers.
Yoshinori Ohsumi, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in the same category in 2016, donated his prize money to set up a fund to help young scientists.
Key words : space agency Europe
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Space agencies in Europe say a probe deployed from Japan's Hayabusa2 spacecraft has successfully landed on the asteroid Ryugu.
The touchdown comes after the lander was released on Wednesday from Hayabusa2 when it was about 51 meters above the asteroid.
The probe robot, called Mobile Asteroid Surface Scout, or MASCOT, is about the size of a microwave oven. It was jointly developed by German and French space centers.
The probe can operate for about 16 hours on a lithium battery. It's designed to investigate the composition of the minerals on Ryugu's surface. It's expected to find out whether the rocks contain water. It is also set to measure any magnetic fields.
Scientists hope the data will give them a clue to uncover how the asteroid was formed.
Two other robots were released from the mother spacecraft and landed on Ryugu on September 21st.
Japan's space agency JAXA also plans to conduct the first landing of Hayabusa2 itself on Ryugu later this month.
Its biggest mission is to collect samples from rocks and carry them back to Earth.
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