NHK has learned that the leaders of the Group of Seven nations have decided on Monday not to issue a joint final communique at their meeting held in France for the first time in its history.
New threats from the US and China to hit each other with additional tariffs have been shaking up financial markets in Japan
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Key words : learned not to issue
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NHK has learned that the leaders of the Group of Seven nations have decided not to issue a joint final communique at the end of their meeting in France.
This will be the first G7 summit without a final communique since the inaugural meeting in 1975.
Observers say this could lead to a decline in the influence of the G7 nations, which have played a leading role in maintaining global economic growth and the international order.
Key words : Trump contacted
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US President Donald Trump says China has contacted officials in Washington about resuming bilateral trade talks.
Trump was speaking to reporters just before meeting Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on the sidelines of the Group of Seven summit in France on Monday.
Trump said, "China called last night our top trade people and said, 'let's get back to the table', so we'll be getting back to the table, and I think they want to do something."
The US and China are embroiled in a trade war.
On Friday, Trump announced he's raising tariffs on 250 billion dollars' worth of goods from China from the current 25 percent to 30 percent, starting October 1.
He also says the remaining 300 billion dollars of goods that were going to be taxed at 10 percent from September 1 will be taxed at 15 percent.
Earlier on Friday, China said it will impose additional tariffs of up to 15 percent on 5,078 US goods in two stages, the first on September 1 and the second on December 15.
China also plans to re-impose additional tariffs on US automobiles and auto parts. They have been suspended since January, but would be levied an extra five to 25 percent from December 15.
Key words : new threats US and China
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New threats from the US and China to hit each other with additional tariffs have been shaking up financial markets in the Asia-Pacific region. Share prices and Japanese bond yields are down -- while the yen has climbed against the US dollar to around a seven-and-a-half month high.
The Japanese yen dipped into the 104-yen range for the first time since January this year at one point. The Japanese currency is trading at around the 105 yen level against the dollar.
Investors are buying the yen as a safe-haven, after the latest tit-for-tat moves between the US and China.
Analysts see the 105 level as psychologically significant.
Another asset seen as safe is Japanese government bonds. Their prices have been rising, with the yield on the benchmark 10-year JGB heading lower to touch its lowest level since July of 2016.
Those currency and bond moves have triggered a plunge in share prices in Tokyo. The Nikkei 225 ended the morning session 451 points, or 2.2 percent lower, at 20,258. Most stocks in the index were trading lower.
The benchmark was down more than 500 points at one point.
Looking at other markets in the Asia-Pacific region -- many have also been trading in the negative.
South Korea's Kospi plunged more than 2 percent after it opened, on a tech selloff.
Hong Kong is down around 3 percent, after a flare-up in the street protests.
Key words : Tokyo international conference seventh
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Final preparations are underway in the Japanese city of Yokohama which will next week host a three-day conference on economic cooperation between Japan and African countries.
The Tokyo International Conference on African Development, or TICAD, has been held on a regular basis since 1993. Japan has been leading the conference which is co-hosted by the United Nations and other organizations.
The seventh TICAD will open next Wednesday. Leaders from 54 African countries will take part to discuss ways to strengthen economic relations with Japan, promote aid in development and other issues.
The conference will be overseen by 550 foreign ministry and other officials as well as 250 volunteers, mainly university students.
At the newly set-up office of the conference's secretariat, staff are working to adjust schedules with participating countries and confirm details of related events.
Among the attendees will be Japanese and African business leaders who will discuss how to improve the environment for expanding private investment and trade and foster human resources. Also on the agenda will be climate change, food security, refugees and migrants, and other issues facing African nations.
Key words : Motoki Takahashi
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Key words : warning shot concern
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A warning shot fired by a Hong Kong police officer on Sunday has heightened concerns that violence could escalate in the territory as protests continue.
Demonstrations against a bill that would allow criminal suspects to be sent to mainland China for trial have intensified since June.
On Sunday night, six police officers drew their guns on demonstrators. One of the officers fired a warning shot into the air as protesters clashed with police, and some attacked police vehicles with steel pipes.
The warning shot was the first fired by a police officer since the protests began.
Police defended the action at a news conference, calling it a sensible measure taken in a life-threatening situation.
The warning shot received extensive coverage in Hong Kong newspapers on Monday. They carried photos of police pointing their guns at protesters.
Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam appealed once again for dialogue in a Facebook post on Sunday. Meanwhile, protesters are growing increasingly resentful of the police.
Key words : Lebanese media
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Lebanese media have blamed Israel for explosions in eastern Lebanon early on Monday.
Leading Lebanese newspaper, An-Nahar, says drone attacks by the Israeli military caused three blasts in the Bekaa Valley.
The alleged attacks are believed to have targeted a base of a Palestinian group with suspected links to the Iran-backed Shia Muslim organization, Hezbollah.
A news outlet close to the group says there are no reports of injuries, as no one was at the base during the attacks.
The Israeli military declined to comment on the reports.
On Sunday, an alleged Israeli drone attack damaged a Hezbollah facility in the Lebanese capital, Beirut. The group has warned of retaliation.
In 2006, major fighting broke out between Israel and Hezbollah and lasted for a month.
Key words : Brazil sent tens of
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Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro has sent tens of thousands of troops to the Amazon to contain massive fires, but there is no end in sight to the disaster.
Up to 44,000 people, mostly from the Brazilian army, navy and air force, have been fighting wildfires in the Amazon since Saturday.
Bolsonaro has also deployed firefighting aircraft that can drop 12,000 liters of water per flight.
The National Institute for Space Research says the number of fires in the Amazon rainforest is rising at a record pace. It says there were 79,000 blazes between January and August 25, up 82 percent from a year ago.
Brazil is home to more than two-thirds of the Amazon -- the world's largest rainforest.
Brazilian farmers sometimes start fires at this time of the year to illegally clear land for livestock.
Bolsonaro blamed drought for the spread of the fires. He said military personnel will strictly monitor farmers.
Bolsonaro said US President Donald Trump told him that the US is ready to assist Brazil.
Japan's top government spokesperson voiced concern about the issue when he spoke to reporters on Monday.
Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said the Group of Seven nations have agreed to do what they can to help Brazil, and Japan is ready to provide support.
Key words : tokyo electric
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Tokyo Electric Power Company has cautiously suggested it may consider scrapping one or more of the reactors at its nuclear plant in Niigata Prefecture.
The city of Kashiwazaki has set decommissioning as a condition for TEPCO restarting two of the seven reactors at the plant.
TEPCO President Tomoaki Kobayakawa told the mayor on Monday that within five years of a restart, the utility would take steps that could lead to some decommissioning.
But he said this would depend on the company being able to secure sufficient power resources at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant.
He said that prospect remains unclear at the moment while the utility studies the use of offshore wind and other forms of renewable energy.
Mayor Masahiro Sakurai says the city will decide whether to accept TEPCO's plan after hearing the views of assembly members and residents.
All seven reactors at the plant are offline following the earthquake in Niigata in 2007 and the nuclear accident in Fukushima Prefecture four years later.
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Key words : tested bus
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Organizers of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics and Paralympics have tested a plan to transport athletes by bus across the city from their accommodation to the opening ceremony venue.
In the test on Sunday evening, 75 buses left the site of the athletes' village in Tokyo's Chuo ward one by one for the journey of about 20 kilometers via the Shuto Expressway in central Tokyo.
The buses reached the New National Stadium that straddles Shibuya and Shinjuku wards in about 30 minutes, 10 minutes less than expected.
Traffic around the national stadium had been regulated from around 6:30 p.m. to 11 p.m.
There was no major disruption, even though there was a traffic jam at one point on Aoyama-dori street in the busy Aoyama shopping district.
The street, which usually teems with traffic, has an exclusive lane for vehicles related to the Olympic and Paralympic Games.
Organizers of the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro are said to have used about 300 buses to transport athletes to the opening ceremony.
The Japanese organizing committee and the Tokyo Metropolitan government plan to discuss the number of buses needed and how to regulate traffic based on results from Sunday's test.
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