US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has said President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will meet somewhere in Asia by the end of February.
The Japanese government's practice of releasing faulty labor data may have begun as a result of amending another failing.
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US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has said President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will meet somewhere in Asia by the end of February.
Pompeo said in a Fox News interview on Wednesday that he has already sent a team to an undisclosed location for preparations.
Vietnam has been seen as one of the possible venues for their second summit, but Pompeo did not name a specific country.
He said the team will lay the foundations of what he hopes will be a substantial, additional step towards the path for the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, and a brighter future for the North Koreans.
The two leaders first met for their historic summit in Singapore last June.
US media are also reporting that the US special representative for North Korea, Stephen Biegun, will visit Panmunjom, the truce village in the demilitarized zone between North and South Korea, next week.
Biegun is expected to discuss arrangements for the Trump-Kim meeting with North Korean officials.
Key words : US lawmaker
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A bipartisan group of US lawmakers has submitted a bill aimed at blocking the withdrawal of US troops from South Korea.
Since taking office, US President Donald Trump has hinted at pulling US forces out of South Korea, citing the high cost.
Eight members of the House of Representatives submitted a bill on Wednesday to restrict the use of Department of Defense funds for such a move.
The bill describes the US alliances with South Korea and Japan as the foundation of stability in the Indo-Pacific region, and warns that the withdrawal of US troops from South Korea could tip the military balance in the region.
The lawmakers want to prevent Trump from using the pullout or downsizing of US troops in South Korea as bargaining chips in denuclearization talks with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in February.
Democratic Representative Tom Malinowski called it reckless to abandon the US soldiers in South Korea who have prevented war for more than 60 years.
He stressed the importance of confirming before the planned US-North Korea summit that the US will maintain a military presence in South Korea.
Key words : China and talks in washington
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Ministers from China and the United States began talks in Washington on Wednesday in a bid to end the trade spat between the two countries.
One focus of the talks is how willing China is to make concessions on intellectual property rights and other issues that concern the US.
At the beginning of the two days of talks, US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer welcomed the Chinese delegates to Washington. He leads the US delegation.
Chinese Vice Premier Liu He responded that he is hopeful great discussions will take place.
The US and China have been engaging in trade talks since their leaders agreed at a summit last month that the US would suspend higher tariffs on Chinese products through March 1st.
The US has been insisting on measures to stop China's violations of intellectual property rights and cyber-attacks. It also accuses China of forcing foreign firms operating in the country to transfer their technology.
The Chinese side is expected to call for understanding of the government's preparation of new legislation to ban forced technology transfers.
But the US is demanding more than a verbal promise by calling for the creation of a framework that will ensure implementation of the ban.
The Chinese economy is losing steam as a result of the ongoing trade dispute. It is also having a major effect on the performance of US corporations, and becoming a major risk factor for the global economy.
Key words : Japanese government mending
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The Japanese government's practice of releasing faulty labor data may have begun as a result of amending another failing.
The labor ministry has come under fire for its improper method for surveying wages and working hours. Officials have been found to have surveyed only one-third of the required companies with 500 or more employees.
The faulty sampling has led to underpayment of unemployment benefits and workers' accident compensation.
The ministry on Wednesday briefed the Internal Affairs Ministry's Statistics Commission on how the faulty practice came to be.
Until 2003, ministry officials had been collecting an insufficient amount of data as part of the survey on mid-sized companies. More information on those firms began being gathered from 2004.
And in the same year, officials may have opted to reduce the number of large companies surveyed to reduce their burden, resulting in the skewed data collection.
The ministry says there is no need to revise the results of the survey on mid-sized companies as that data has been statistically analyzed.
Key words : governing
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Japan's governing party lawmakers have criticized labor ministry officials for their poor grasp of the facts surrounding a fresh discovery of faulty statistics.
The labor ministry admitted earlier this week that improper methods were used for its wage structure survey. Questionnaires were sent to businesses by post, although officials were supposed to hand-deliver them.
The labor ministry is already under fire over mistakes in a separate set of statistics that came to light last month. The faulty data led to the underpayment of unemployment and insurance benefits.
Labor ministry officials told a meeting of Liberal Democratic Party lawmakers on Thursday that an in-house probe is underway, but they still can't explain why improper methods were used.
Lawmakers criticized the ministry for a lack of governance, saying officials don't even know when they started sending the questionnaires by mail.
Some lawmakers said the in-house probe is inadequate and outside experts should look at the problem instead.
The head of the ruling party's panel on labor issues, Shinjiro Koizumi, said it's incomprehensible that the in-house team has failed to clarify the basic facts. He said he's very worried by the dysfunctional state of the labor ministry.
Key words : executives Nissan Masuko
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Key words : new report
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A new report shows US and Japanese firms are leading the way with applications to patent innovations in artificial intelligence. But rivals from China have the edge in the more advanced AI field of "deep learning", where machines teach themselves and "think" on their own.
The report by the World Intellectual Property Organization covers 340 thousand AI-related patent applications. It spans a period from the 1950s to 2016.
The report says America's IBM filed the largest number of patents, followed by Microsoft. Japan's Toshiba came in third. 12 companies among the top 20 are from Japan.
But for "deep learning" technology, the Chinese Academy of Sciences topped the list. In second place was IT firm Baidu also from China.
Key words : Tokyo metropolitan
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The Tokyo Metropolitan Government says it will replace faulty anti-quake devices found at a facility housing a swimming pool to be used in the 2020 Olympics and Paralympics.
The 16 faulty shock absorbing dampers have been found at the Olympic Aquatics Center under construction. Officials say the work to replace the faulty devices will not affect its scheduled completion in February 2020.
The devices were manufactured by the hydraulic equipment manufacturer KYB. The firm admitted last October that it might have falsified test data on seismic dampers that had been installed at dozens of public buildings. The Olympic Aquatics Center was one of them.
Inspections conducted by the Tokyo Government since then have confirmed that 16 of the dampers installed at the swimming facility are faulty and need to be replaced.
The Olympic Aquatics Center has 16 other dampers installed, also made by KYB, but of a type that works by dissipating, not absorbing, seismic energy.
Tokyo government officials suspect that these 16 might also be faulty, but say they cannot be sure until they take them out for a detailed inspection. If found substandard, those 16 dampers will undergo adjustment.
The officials say that they have found no problems with four other KYB-made shock absorbing dampers installed at another Olympic facility--- Ariake Arena.
Key words : falling smartphone
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China's falling smartphone sales are hitting Japanese firms that make parts for the devices, including Sharp and TDK. Both firms downgraded their earnings estimates on Wednesday.
Executives at Sharp slashed their sales forecast for the year through March. They say demand for electronic components has slowed because fewer Chinese consumers are choosing iPhones.
Sharp previously downgraded its sales estimate for the fiscal year in October. This time, executives cut the forecast by a further 1.7 billion dollars, lowering it to 23 billion dollars.
They also downgraded their estimate for operating profit by more than 45 million dollars to about 980 million dollars.
They say one of the main factors behind the revised figures is the trade dispute between the US and China.
Executives at TDK say orders for smartphone sensors were down from autumn.
They lowered their sales estimate for the year through March from 13 billion to 12.5 billion dollars.
They also revised downward the forecast for operating profit from 1.1 billion dollars to one billion dollars.
Key words : influenza reached
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Health officials in Tokyo say the number of people infected with influenza has reached a new record high.
The officials say the average number of flu patients at 415 medical institutions in the Japanese capital in the week through Sunday stood at 64.18, up more than 10 from a week earlier.
It is the highest average figure since record taking began in 1999 and above the previous record of 54.1 set in January last year.
The officials say that about 70 percent of the cases were found to be infected with the H1N1 strain, which caused a global outbreak of a new influenza a decade ago.
The metropolitan government issued a warning of influenza outbreak on January 17th.
Officials are urging people to take preventive measures such as washing hands.
Prefectures around Tokyo have also reported record numbers of flu patients.
In Saitama prefecture, north of Tokyo, the average number of patients per hospital reached 84.09 and in Chiba Prefecture, east of Tokyo, 73.
One hospital in Tochigi Prefecture had 67 patients on average and another in Kanagawa Prefecture 67.94.
All the figures have set new records since 20 years ago.
Key words : lawyer new york
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Lawyers in New York have reenacted the legal battle of a second-generation Japanese-American who challenged the constitutionality of the US internment policy during World War Two.
After Japan's attack on the US naval base at Pearl Harbor, President Franklin Roosevelt signed an executive order in 1942 that sent about 120,000 Japanese-Americans to internment camps.
The Asian-American Bar Association of New York held the event honoring Fred Korematsu on Wednesday, which would have been his 100th birthday.
Korematsu was arrested for refusing to go to an internment camp.
He argued that the order amounted to racial discrimination in violation of the Constitution, but the Supreme Court upheld his conviction in 1944. It was overturned some 40 years later.
The reenactment depicts Korematsu telling prosecutors that it's wrong to force innocent citizens into a camp just because they are Japanese-Americans.
There are growing calls for Americans to study the history of the internment at a time when President Donald Trump is promoting a tough immigration policy.
A fourth-generation Japanese-American man in the audience said he wants more people to learn about Korematsu and his fight for justice now, more than at any other time.
The bar association's executive director, Yang Chen, says similar mistakes are still being repeated in the United States. He said he hopes people will learn from Korematsu's trial to create a better situation.
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