Carlos Ghosn has resigned from his posts at Renault.
Japan's foreign ministers met his South Korean counterpart on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Switzerland on Wednesday.
North Korea's leader has expressed eagerness with reguard to a second summit with US President.
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Key words : Carlos resign development
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Carlos Ghosn has resigned from his posts at carmaker Renault. France's economy minister Bruno Le Maire says Carlos Ghosn has stood down as chairman and CEO of Renault.
Le Maire confirmed the development in an interview in Davos, Switzerland. He said Ghosn resigned from Renault on Wednesday night.
Ghosn was also chairman of Japanese automaker Nissan Motor until his arrest on financial misconduct charges in November. He remains in custody in Tokyo and is unlikely to be able to return to France for some time.
The French government is the largest shareholder of Renault. Le Maire has spent weeks pressing Renault to appoint new management. He says the carmaker urgently needs stability at the top as it navigates a period of uncertainty.
Speculation is mounting about how many changes the automaker is prepared to make.
Key words : motor says extraordinary mid-April
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Nissan Motor says it has started preparations to hold an extraordinary shareholders meeting, likely in mid-April.
The Japanese carmaker says the meeting will cover the dismissal of former chairman Carlos Ghosn and his close aide Greg Kelly from the firm's board of directors.
The agenda will also include appointing a new director to be nominated by Renault, the top shareholder of Nissan.
In November, Nissan's board dismissed Ghosn as chairman and Kelly as representative director after their arrests for alleged financial misconduct.
But they remained on the board because discharging a director requires a decision by a general shareholders meeting.
Renault has repeatedly called for an extraordinary general meeting of Nissan shareholders at an early date, but Nissan has so far turned down the request.
Nissan officials said they want to choose replacements on the basis of discussions by a panel that includes outside experts.
Nissan's latest move to appoint a new director comes as Renault is set to choose replacements for Ghosn on Thursday.
Key words : Kono met his recent
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South Korea did not take a stance on Japan's call for talks on the wartime labor issue at a meeting of the two countries' foreign ministers.
Japan's Taro Kono met his South Korean counterpart, Kang Kyung-wha, on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Switzerland on Wednesday.
This is their first meeting since South Korea's Supreme Court recently ordered Japanese companies to compensate Koreans who say they were forced to work for the companies during World War Two.
Kono hoped South Korea would agree to hold talks at an early date based on an agreement reached in 1965.
The Japanese government says any right to such claims was settled finally and completely in the agreement the countries signed when they normalized ties.
Kang only said the government is carefully studying the matter.
But she said it was regrettable that there have been low-altitude flights by Japanese Self-Defense Force planes close to South Korean warships.
Kono rebutted South Korea's claims, saying Japanese aircraft weren't flying as close to South Korean vessels as Seoul claims they were.
The Japanese Foreign Ministry says further worsening of ties is undesirable as there is the need to address issues relating to North Korea.
Key words : south released
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South Korea has released photos of a Japanese patrol plane in what it calls a provocative low-altitude flight. The country says the photos were taken from a South Korean destroyer.
The country's Ministry of National Defense made public five photos on Thursday.
South Korea's military said on Wednesday that a patrol plane of Japan's Maritime Self-Defense Force flew at low altitude close to the destroyer in the East China Sea.
It called the incident the latest in a series of provocative flights by Japanese aircraft.
Japan has denied the accusations and said it is operating flights properly.
The South Korean ministry says the photos were processed from video footage taken by a camcorder and the destroyer's infrared camera. Three of them show a patrol plane.
A photo of what it calls the vessel's radar screen shows the distance as 0.3 miles and the altitude as 200 feet.
The ministry says the figures support its claim that the aircraft flew by the ship at a distance of 540 meters and an altitude of 60 to 70 meters.
The country's presidential office says the National Security Council met on Thursday. The office expressed grave concern over such flights, and said the country will act strictly to prevent a recurrence.
The two countries are already sharply at odds over an incident last month in the Sea of Japan. Officials in Tokyo say a South Korean naval vessel directed weapons radar at a Japanese patrol plane.
Key words : former supreme arrested five years
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South Korea's former Supreme Court chief justice Yang Sung-tae was arrested on Thursday. He is accused of abusing his authority, including unjustly delaying a ruling on a wartime labor issue.
The current chief justice is now apologizing for the court not living up to the public's expectations.
Kim Myeong-su says he feels wretched and shamed, and can't find the right words to provide comfort to anyone.
Prosecutors allege Yang acted in line with the wishes of former President Park Geun-hye. He is accused of delaying wartime labor trials involving Japan for five years.
Park is said to have been concerned verdicts could lead to worsening ties with Japan.
Yang is also accused of putting pressure on judges to rule in ways he wanted and blacklisting those who disagreed with his ideas. He denies any wrongdoing.
Last year, South Korea's top court ruled on the wartime labor trials. It ordered Japanese companies to compensate men and women who say they were forced to work for them during World War Two.
The Japanese government says any right to such claims was settled finally and completely in an agreement the countries signed when they normalized ties in 1965.
Meanwhile, the foreign ministers of Japan and South Korea met on the sidelines of the Davos Forum for the first time since the ruling.
Taro Kono tried to convince Kang Kyung-wha to hold talks based on the decades-old agreement. Kang said she would consider the request.
Both sides have said the issue should not impede their future-orientated relationship."
Key words : north expressed eagerness
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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has expressed eagerness for a second summit with US President Donald Trump planned for late next month.
The state-run Korean Central News Agency reported on Thursday that Kim's close aide Kim Yong Chol briefed the leader on Wednesday about his trip last week to the US, where he met Trump and other administration officials.
KCNA said Kim expressed satisfaction at receiving a letter from Trump, and welcomed the US president's strong will and ability to make decisions to solve problems.
Kim reportedly said he will believe in Trump's positive way of thinking, wait with patience and in good faith, and advance step by step with the US toward the goal to be reached by the two countries.
However, diplomatic observers say the two sides remain at odds over denuclearization. North Korea is demanding that economic sanctions be eased, claiming it has taken steps such as shutting down a nuclear test site. The US insists on more concrete steps by the North.
Key words : Trump delay his
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US President Donald Trump says he will delay his State of the Union address until the partial government shutdown is over, accepting a request by the Democrats.
Trump tweeted late on Wednesday that he will "do the Address when the Shutdown is over." He said he is not looking for an alternative venue for the speech because "there is no venue that can compete with the history, tradition and importance of the House Chamber."
The address had been scheduled for next Tuesday. Presidents traditionally announce their policy platforms for the coming year in the nationally televised speech.
But the Democrats have been asking Trump to postpone the address because of the shutdown.
Earlier on Wednesday, Trump had suggested he would consider an alternative venue after Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi refused to pass the resolution required for Trump to speak in Congress.
The ongoing government shutdown has become the longest in US history, as the deadlock continues over Trump's request for funding to build a wall along the Mexican border.
On Thursday, the Senate plans to vote on two competing bills aimed at ending the shutdown, one that includes the funding for the wall and another that doesn't.
Responding to Trump's tweet, Pelosi said she hopes he will support the package proposed by the Democrats.
Key words : Chief of
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The chief of the United Nations Population Fund is calling on the international community to provide more than 100 million dollars in emergency humanitarian assistance.
The UNFPA's executive director, Natalia Kanem, made the appeal in a meeting at the UN headquarters in New York on Wednesday.
The fund is dedicated to family planning and support for the rights and health of women and children in developing nations. US President Donald Trump's administration has withdrawn funding for the UNFPA and other UN agencies.
Kanem said the fund is concerned that the number of governments giving support has declined.
She asked more governments to support the UNFPA during this year.
Kanem said the fund needs more than 130 million dollars for medical and other supplies.
Japan's deputy permanent representative to the UN, Yasuhisa Kawamura, said Japan will support the fund through international meetings.
Kawamura said Japan will host the G20 summit and the Tokyo International Conference on African Development this year. He said Japan will help promote systems to enable anyone to receive healthcare services.
The UNFPA has suffered from a shortage of money since the US withheld 32.5 million dollars in funding in April 2017.
The UN agency for Palestinian refugees reduced food aid after the Trump administration stopped funding in January last year.
Key words : government official problem accuracy
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Japanese government officials have announced that they have found problems to be fixed in 27 of the 56 most important regularly released government statistics.
The problems were identified as the officials scrutinized the 56 statistics following a recent revelation that the labor ministry's monthly survey of wages and working hours has been flawed for years.
The officials said none of the problems involve basic sampling methods, as was the case in the labor ministry's monthly survey.
By contrast, the inaccuracy in the labor survey was large enough to affect the government budget and the size of unemployment benefits to be paid out.
The officials have found that the land ministry's survey of construction projects showed a somewhat higher figure than was the case, because of mistakes made in feedbacks from some construction firms.
Relatively minor problems with sampling methods were found in another land ministry survey on housing starts.
Omissions in compiling data were found in nine other statistics, including the internal affairs ministry's survey on land and housing, the Finance Ministry's corporation statistics, and the education ministry's survey on school teachers.
The officials have found what they call procedural problems in 16 other statistics, including the economy ministry's survey on commercial activities.
Key words : learned whale
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NHK has learned that a Japanese fishery group plans to resume commercial whaling for the first time in 31 years.
Sources say the cooperative will team up with a group of firms to form a fleet. It plans to head out on its first hunt on July first.
The cooperative is based in western Japan's Wakayama Prefecture, in the town of Taiji.
Officials made the decision after Japan announced last month it would withdraw from the International Whaling Commission.
The ships will likely depart from Hokkaido or Aomori prefectures, in the north of the country. Both have ports specially equipped to handle the extra-large cargo.
The crews will spend about a week at sea hunting minke whales.
The cooperative will separately conduct an expedition off central Japan that will end in August. And it plans to reform the larger fleet down the track for a two-month hunt.
The head of Japan Small-Type Whaling Association, Yoshifumi Kai, says he's been waiting years for this day to come.
Kai said, "It's important that we abide by the catch quota and make sure the whale population does not dwindle."
Japan suspended commercial whaling in line with a 1988 moratorium. Since then it has been taking small catches for research purposes.
It claims stocks have now recovered enough to justify commercial hunts.
Key words : heavy snow
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Key words : Naomi advance to
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Naomi Osaka has become the first Japanese tennis player to advance to the singles finals of the Australian Open, one of the sport's four Grand Slam events.
In the women's singles semifinals on Thursday, Osaka defeated Karolina Pliskova of the Czech Republic in three sets.
Osaka is to play her second straight Grand Slam final on Saturday. She won the US Open women's singles title last year.
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