The Japanese government may issue an advisory and take other measures against telecom provider Softbank over a nationwide service disruption on Thursday.
Sources say former Nissan Motor chairman Carlos Ghosn had signed confidential in-house documents related to arrangements for his retirement allowances.
Representatives of American automakers are demanding Japan open its marke.
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The Japanese government may issue an advisory and take other measures against telecom provider Softbank over a nationwide service disruption on Thursday.
Officials at the communications ministry plan to ask Softbank for a detailed report on what went wrong, as the network outage might fit the definition of a "severe accident" set by the Telecommunications Business Law.
The outage lasted for several hours on Thursday afternoon. The system began to come back on-line later in the day.
Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said, "It's extremely regrettable that the disruption caused inconvenience for many customers across the nation for more than 4 hours."
Softbank says it detected malfunctioning software in all of its packet switching machines manufactured by Ericsson.
Softbank says it received a report from the Swedish firm that telecom carriers in 11 other countries were simultaneously affected by the software error.
Softbank apologized to its customers for the inconveniences caused by the network failure. The company added it will work to prevent a recurrence.
Key words : carlos signed in-house
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Sources say former Nissan Motor chairman Carlos Ghosn had signed confidential in-house documents related to arrangements for his retirement allowances.
Ghosn is under arrest on suspicion of understating his executive pay by tens of millions of dollars in Nissan's securities reports in the 5 years through fiscal 2014.
Tokyo prosecutors suspect the undeclared amount was to be paid to Ghosn after his retirement, to avoid inviting criticism that he was earning too much.
Sources say Nissan secretly kept documents on the deal at a secretaries' office, and that the company's financial division did not know this. They also say some of the documents bear Ghosn's signature.
Ghosn is reportedly denying the allegations, saying the retirement allowances were not officially set.
But prosecutors are expected to indict Ghosn and his close aide, former representative director Greg Kelly, possibly next Monday, when their detention period expires.
Prosecutors are also likely to serve an additional arrest warrant on both men for allegedly underreporting Ghosn's pay during the 3 fiscal years through 2017.
Sources say a separate document related to the retirement pay deal is signed by current Nissan President and CEO Hiroto Saikawa.
Nissan, as a corporate entity, may also face charges.
Key words : representative demanding
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Representatives of American automakers are demanding Japan open its market, saying that cars are a major reason the US has a trade deficit with the country.
The US International Trade Commission held a public hearing on Thursday. This comes ahead of Japan-US trade negotiations that are expected to start as early as January.
A top official of a US auto workers' union said Japan should scrap non-tariff barriers, calling them "a web of closed systems that make it really difficult for manufacturers from abroad to have successful sales."
He also criticized Japan's currency policy, saying, "the Japanese government has not seemed hesitant to manipulate the currency markets to make their autos cheaper."
A senior official from the dairy industry urged US trade officials to seek more concessions from Japan.
Key words : US telecom device
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US National Security Advisor John Bolton says he knew in advance about the arrest of a top executive from Chinese telecom device maker Huawei Technologies.
Canadian authorities arrested Huawei's Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou in Vancouver on December 1st at the request of the United States.
Local media outlets are reporting that she is suspected of violating US sanctions against Iran.
Bolton said on Thursday that the US has been concerned for years about the practice of Chinese firms to use stolen American intellectual property to engage in forced technology transfers. He spoke in an interview with National Public Radio.
He said Huawei is one company the US has been concerned about. But he said this was not respecting Meng's arrest.
Bolton also said he doesn't know whether President Donald Trump knew in advance about the arrest. But Bolton admitted having prior knowledge based on information provided by the Justice Department.
Bolton did not say whether he knew during the US-China summit in Argentina on December 1st that the arrest would take place.
Key words : government revise the rules
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The Japanese government plans to revise the rules for its procurement of telecommunications equipment to take into consideration the risks related to national security.
The only current rules are on the cost of procurement.
The government will begin studying revisions of the internal rules of the relevant ministries and agencies as early as next week, with an eye toward preventing information leaks from cyber-attacks.
The US administration of President Donald Trump has banned the government from using products made by Huawei and other Chinese telecommunications companies due to national security concerns.
The US has also asked countries that host US military bases not to use Chinese telecommunications equipment.
The Japanese government plans to avoid naming specific Chinese companies in the revised rules.
The minister in charge of cyber security, Yoshitaka Sakurada, says the government will take various steps by studying cyber security technologies and measures taken by other countries.
Key words : US commerce
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The US Commerce Department said the country's trade deficit with China in October expanded 7.1 percent from the previous month to a record 43.1 billion dollars.
US imports from China rose 4.4 percent while exports fell 6.7 percent as China's retaliatory tariffs have led to reduced exports of US soy beans.
President Trump is expected to put more pressure on China to correct the trade imbalance and deal with the issue of violation of intellectual property rights.
The overall US trade deficit also jumped to a 10-year high in October to 55.5 billion dollars.
And the deficit with Japan rose 57 percent to 6.1 billion dollars.
Trump is expected to urge Japan to open its automobile and agricultural product markets in talks that are expected to begin in January.
Key words : Korea and China
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The foreign ministers of North Korea and China have met in Beijing, apparently to discuss denuclearization and a possible US-North Korean summit early next year.
North Korea's Ri Yong Ho arrived in China on Thursday for a 3-day visit. He met his counterpart Wang Yi on Friday.
Wang said at the outset that tension is easing on the Korean Peninsula, and that the 2 countries' communication and cooperation are bearing fruit.
The 2 sides are believed to have discussed how to move ahead with denuclearization of the peninsula, and affirmed their cooperation.
A 2nd US-North Korean summit could take place in January or February. Arrangements are also underway for North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to visit the South Korean capital, Seoul.
Wang is believed to have briefed Ri on the China-US summit held last Saturday at which both leaders agreed to make efforts for denuclearization.
Wang and Ri may have also discussed the possibility of a first visit to North Korea by Chinese President Xi Jinping.
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Key words : international scientist urged
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An international group of scientists has urged countries at a UN climate change conference to step up their target for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
Seven scientists from Japan, Germany, France and others made the appeal in a panel discussion at the conference in Poland.
They referred to a special report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or IPCC. The report issued in October says that by as early as 2030, the average global temperature could rise 1.5 degrees Celsius from pre-Industrial Revolution levels.
The scientists warned that if the current situation continues, many areas around the world could be seriously affected by heavy rain and rising sea levels.
They said higher targets for emissions reductions are needed to limit the temperature rise under the Paris climate change accord.
The scientists also stressed the need for changing from coal-fired power generation to reusable energy sources such as solar power as soon as possible. They said it's important to provide financial and technology assistance to developing nations for their anti-global warning measures.
A government official from the South Pacific nation of Fiji said he welcomes scientific evidence, and that policymakers of each country can no longer ignore it.
One of the scientists, Mikiko Kainuma from Japan, said the effects of extreme heat and typhoons this summer are evident, and that policymakers should set ambitious targets.
Key words : Japanese researcher
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Japanese researchers say they have proven that global warming caused the extremely hot weather during the 2018 summer in Japan.
Scientists from the University of Tokyo and the Meteorological Agency said the past summer's very high temperatures would never have occurred without the effects of global warming.
Japan experienced a record-high temperature of 41.1 degrees Celsius in Kumagaya, north of Tokyo, in July. The average temperature in eastern Japan also marked its highest since statistics became available.
Weather officials attributed the heat to an extraordinary pressure pattern combined with the long-term trend of rising temperatures due to global warming.
But, they have yet to clarify the extent to which global warming contributed to the high temperatures.
The researchers analyzed the probability of the occurrence of an extremely hot summer under the hypothesis that the weather conditions of the pre-Industrial Revolution era remained.
They said that without climate change, the midair temperatures would have been about 2 degrees lower in July. That's despite pressure patterns making temperatures in 2018 higher than an average year.
They concluded that there would have been a zero percent chance of an extremely hot summer without the effects of climate change.
Professor Masahiro Watanabe of the University of Tokyo said they succeeded in proving the relationship between global warming and extreme weather.
He said the team will continue its study to find ways to figure out the probability of severe weather.
Analysts have long suggested that global warming is behind extreme weather conditions. They added that the study is just the beginning.
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