The death toll from Sunday's terrorist attacks in Sri Lanka has climbed to 290.
Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe left Japan for a tour of Europe and North America on Monday in preparation for the G20 summit to be held in Osaka in June.
Defense lawyers for former Nissan Motor chairman Carlos Ghosn have asked a Tokyo court to grant him bail.
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Key words : death toll from Sunday
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The death toll from Sunday's terrorist attacks in Sri Lanka has climbed to 290. The government also says about 500 people were wounded.
Blasts occurred almost simultaneously at six locations including hotels and churches in and around Colombo and in the country's east. Several hours later, further explosions took place in two other places while police were searching for suspects.
Investigators say attackers conducted suicide bombings at the six locations, and that the attacks had been well planned.
They believe the main targets were foreigners and Christians.
Internal documents of the investigative authorities show they obtained information on April 9 that an Islamic extremist group in the country was planning suicide bombings targeting churches and other locations.
The documents also reveal that the defense ministry instructed police across the country to be on alert.
But the authorities could not determine what date the attacks would be carried out.
Authorities say the blasts at the three hotels occurred in restaurants. At the Shangri-La Hotel, two attackers blew themselves up in its restaurant, which was crowded during breakfast time. Investigators say the attack caused a large number of victims.
Officials are investigating based on personal information on guests provided by hotels. They say they have detained 24 people, but have not revealed whether the attacks were linked to Islamic extremists. They are also looking at possible involvement of a foreign terrorist group.
Key words : Abe including Japanese
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Key words : Japanese woman breakfast
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The Japanese woman who was killed in the Colombo terror attacks was reportedly having breakfast with her family at one of the bombed hotels.
Japanese government officials have identified the victim as Kaori Takahashi, a resident of Sri Lanka's largest city.
The officials say Takahashi was at the Shangri-La Hotel with her husband and other family members on Sunday morning.
They say her husband is among the four Japanese who were wounded.
The Japanese foreign ministry is trying to find out if other Japanese nationals were caught up in the explosions.
Key words : human tragedy
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Sri Lanka is reeling after a string of bombings on Sunday killed nearly 300 people and injured about 500 others.
The scale of this human tragedy has shocked the world. Investigators are scrambling to find the perpetrators and secure public safety. And the attacks have severely disrupted daily business in the country.
The Colombo Stock Exchange was closed for trading on Monday. It will reopen Tuesday.
Security conditions in Sri Lanka had been relatively stable since the civil war ended in 2009. The economy was growing, especially in tourism-related business. But analysts predict Sunday's attacks will hurt that sector.
The recent stability had attracted foreign investment. The Japanese trade organization JETRO says about 130 firms from Japan are currently doing business in the South Asian country. It says they're feeling the effects of the bombings.
Fastener company YKK has been making products in Sri Lanka for 20 years. Company officials have put production on hold.
Trading firm Toyota Tsusho says its employees in Sri Lanka are safe. But it has temporarily closed the auto dealership it operates there.
Key words : Abe left
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Prime Minister Shinzo Abe left Japan for a tour of Europe and North America on Monday in preparation for the G20 summit to be held in Osaka in June.
The prime minister will visit France, Italy, Slovakia, Belgium, the United States and Canada and meet with the leaders of those countries.
In France, he is expected to offer support for efforts to rebuild the fire-damaged Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris when he meets with French President Emmanuel Macron.
Abe and Macron are expected to discuss the agenda for the upcoming G20 summit, including the issue of plastic waste and the marine pollution it causes.
Abe hopes to affirm close cooperation with the French president.
In a meeting with US President Donald Trump, Abe hopes to reaffirm that Japan and the United States will continue to work closely together in dealing with North Korea's denuclearization following the breakdown of the second US-North Korea summit in Hanoi.
The two leaders are also expected to discuss how to proceed with the new round of Japan-US trade negotiations that began last week.
Trump plans to visit Japan in late May as a state guest, making him the first foreign leader to meet the new Emperor. He will also attend the G20 summit in Osaka in June. That means Abe and Trump will have three meetings in three consecutive months.
Key words : defense lawyer asked a
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Defense lawyers for former Nissan Motor chairman Carlos Ghosn have asked a Tokyo court to grant him bail.
The lawyers filed the request on Monday after Tokyo prosecutors brought yet another indictment against Ghosn earlier in the day.
Ghosn was initially released last month after spending over 100 days in custody when he posted bail of more than 9 million dollars. But he was arrested for the fourth time on suspicion of aggravated breach of trust on April 4.
Ghosn was indicted on suspicion of having had the automaker transfer money to a car dealership in Oman, and then funneling part of that money to a shell company in Lebanon which he effectively owns.
He is suspected of causing Nissan damages worth over 550 million yen, or about 5 million dollars.
The previous bail was granted after his defense team proposed a set of conditions to curb possible attempts at destroying evidence.
They included restrictions on Ghosn's use of personal computers and mobile phones.
The court plans to hear from prosecutors to decide whether to grant Ghosn bail.
Sources say Ghosn has denied any charge of wrongdoing. He reportedly is now remaining silent, calling further questioning a waste of time.
Key words : American lawyer
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An American lawyer who lives in Tokyo says the latest charge against former Nissan Motor chairman Carlos Ghosn is very serious if it is true.
Stephen Givens, who is also a professor at Tokyo's Sophia University, was speaking to NHK in Japanese.
Givens says Ghosn's first two cases of financial misconduct represented rather technical violations. Ghosn was accused of understating his compensation, and getting Nissan to temporarily shoulder his liabilities on currency swap deals.
But the lawyer says Ghosn's latest indictment for aggravated breach of trust is more serious. Ghosn is accused of having part of Nissan's payments to an Omani dealership funneled back to a shell firm he controls.
Givens says Ghosn and his wife are insisting he is innocent, but that their claims are too abstract. The lawyer also says public opinion of Ghosn has changed, and is unlikely to improve if the alleged wrongdoing is true.
The lawyer questions the way Nissan executives used a plea bargaining deal with prosecutors.
He says US prosecutors usually employ plea bargaining to use a person less seriously involved in a case to catch and charge a key figure. But he says the Nissan management provided prosecutors with related materials for its own defense, adding that this is quite contrary to ordinary patterns.
The American lawyer says people should take note of how Japanese prosecutors use the plea bargaining system going forward.
Key words : Pakistani
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Pakistani Foreign Minister Makhdoom Shah Mahmood Qureshi has expressed his willingness to meet with India to discuss military tensions in Kashmir after India ends its general elections.
In an interview with NHK in Tokyo on Monday, Qureshi said Pakistan wants to resolve the territorial dispute for the sake of peace and stability.
He said he expects some sort of engagement to take place once India's ongoing general elections are over. He added that Pakistan is ready to engage with whomever forms the next Indian government.
As for relations with China and its "Belt and Road" economic initiative, Qureshi said his government wants to promote cooperation in the industrial and agriculture fields, which would help create jobs in the country.
He indicated that the government of Prime Minister Imran Khan, which came to power last year, is taking a different path from its predecessor, which focused on the infrastructure and energy sectors.
Qureshi called Japan an important economic partner and expressed hope for the promotion of investment, trade and technology transfers between the two countries.
Key words : United States reportedly
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The United States reportedly plans to end sanction waivers early next month that exempt countries including Japan from a ban on importing oil from Iran.
Washington re-imposed the sanctions last November after unilaterally withdrawing from a 2015 international nuclear agreement with Iran. Seven oil-importing countries and a territory were granted 180-day waivers.
NHK has learnt that US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo notified Japan's Foreign Minister Taro Kono when they met in Washington last week.
Pompeo reportedly informed Kono that the US will no longer grant waivers as of May 2.
The Japanese government has sent officials to the US to request an extension.
Key words : two senior officers
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Two senior officers from Japan's Ground Self-Defense Force will leave for the Sinai Peninsula on Friday, on the first multinational peacekeeping mission under security legislation enacted in 2015.
The legislation allows the SDF to join multinational peacekeeping activities under certain conditions outside the United Nations framework. The Japanese government decided in early April to send senior officials to the peninsula in Egypt.
Defense Minister Takeshi Iwaya handed them a notice of appointment on Monday.
They will work at the headquarters of Multinational Force and Observers, an organization that monitors the ceasefire between Egypt and Israel.
The officers will stay there until November to help facilitate communication between the two countries.
Iwaya told them that their mission will enable Japan to further contribute to peace and stability in the Middle East and the rest of the world.
He also said he has heard that the situation in the southern part of the Sinai Peninsula is generally calm, and asked the officers to carry out their mission with skill and force of will.
Key words : Palestinian
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas says the situation in the Middle East will only get worse even if the United States makes new proposals for the peace process.
Abbas was speaking at a meeting of Arab League foreign ministers in Egypt on Sunday amid speculation that the Trump administration will present a new peace plan to Israel and Palestinians as early as June.
Senior US officials say parts of the plan will be tough for both parties, but they are calling on the two sides to accept it.
Abbas referred to the US recognition of Jerusalem as the Israeli capital and questioned what is left for the US to offer Palestinians that they would be pleased with. He denounced Washington, saying it just wants to deceive Palestinians.
Arab League Secretary General Ahmed Aboul Gheit, noted that Arab nations need to be actively involved in the issue. But he refrained from mentioning the expected new US proposal.
Arab nations are strengthening ties with the Trump administration. Saudi Arabia and Egypt are reportedly pushing Palestinians to accept the administration's new plan.
Key words : top business
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Japan's top business organization is asking companies in 20 sectors to help cut the amount of plastic waste they produce.
Keidanren, or the Japan Business Federation, has set non-binding targets for fiscal 2030.
It wants beverage makers to recycle 100 percent of the plastic bottles they collect.
The federation says the bottles should be reprocessed into new products or used as fuel. The recycling ratio in fiscal 2017 was 92 percent.
Department stores are being asked to slash the amount of plastic packaging per sales by half from the level in fiscal 2000.
The federation wants beer makers to re-use or repurpose 100 percent of their production-stage plastic waste.
World leaders are expected to discuss ways to reduce plastic waste when they meet in Osaka this June for the G20 summit.
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