A deadly collision between a truck and commuter train in Yokohama, near Tokyo, was caught on camera.
Top cabinet ministers from North and South Korea both attended an economic forum in Russia, but did not hold a one-on-one meeting on the sidelines.
The city assembly of Busan in southern South Korea has approved legislation identifying some Japanese companies as war criminals and urging local educational institutions not to buy their products.
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Key words : deadly collision caught
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A deadly collision between a truck and commuter train in Yokohama, near Tokyo, was caught on camera. Investigators say footage taken at the scene Thursday shows the driver struggling with his truck's steering wheel before entering the railway crossing.
The 67-year-old driver was killed when the express train smashed into his truck. Thirty-four others were injured.
The force of the collision derailed the first three train cars and destroyed the truck.
The truck was apparently loaded with boxes of fruit.
Police searched the offices of the driver's company on Friday to learn more about his employment history and working conditions. They want to find out his route on that day.
Police have already learned the driver was travelling on a narrow street before he turned to cross the tracks. A camera installed at the railway crossing shows the driver turning the steering wheel in both directions.
After struggling to make the turn for longer than normal, the crossing gates came down, trapping the vehicle inside.
Meanwhile, the train operator is looking into why the train could not stop in time to avoid the accident.
Keikyu Corporation says its monitoring system detected the vehicle stuck at the crossing and activated a warning signal for the train's driver.
It says the signal was visible before the train came within 600 meters of the crossing.
That would have allowed a train traveling at 120 kilometers per hour to come to a halt before the crossing, if the emergency brakes were applied in time.
The train driver reportedly told Keikyu that he applied the emergency brake but could not prevent the accident.
The company plans to analyze data recorded on the train to determine exactly when that happened.
Keikyu says trains in the area will not resume operations until Saturday.
Key words : during morning rush hour
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Key words : top cabinet
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Top cabinet ministers from North and South Korea both attended an economic forum in Russia, but did not hold a one-on-one meeting on the sidelines.
North Korean Vice Premier Ri Ryong Nam and South Korean Deputy Prime Minister Hong Nam-ki took part in the Eastern Economic Forum which ended on Thursday in the Far Eastern city of Vladivostok.
Ri ranks higher than the officials North Korea had sent to the forum in the past. He only had a brief chat with Hong during the event.
South Korea has been asking its northern neighbor to resume dialogue, as denuclearization talks between North Korea and the United States have stalled.
But Pyongyang has refused the request, citing Seoul's joint military drill with the US last month.
Ri told media on Thursday that South Korea has failed to implement the inter-Korean declarations.
Key words : US research
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A US research group says the administration of US President Donald Trump should immediately seek a partial scrapping of North Korea's nuclear facilities.
A former head of the Los Alamos National Laboratory, Siegfried Hecker, is one of the authors of an article posted on the 38 North website on Wednesday. Hecker has visited a nuclear facility in North Korea.
The experts say that North Korea has likely added about 10 bombs' worth of fissile material over the past 18 months.
The article refers to the Nyongbyon nuclear complex, which North Korean leader Kim Jong Un offered to dismantle in return for a lifting of sanctions at his summit with Trump in Hanoi in February.
The United States rejected the idea, in line with its goal of complete, verifiable and irreversible denuclearization.
The writers say eliminating the entire Nyongbyon complex and allowing inspectors at the site would immediately put a major dent in the North's nuclear program.
They warn that the longer the US waits, the more the overall nuclear threat will grow. They call on the US to let North Korea make easy, but substantive steps to address US concerns in exchange for similar steps from Washington.
Other US experts are also urging the Trump administration to seek the gradual denuclearization of North Korea.
Key words : Hong Kong sent a letter
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Hong Kong's government has sent a letter promoting the city's safety to foreign countries.
The government said on Friday that the head of the Commerce and Economic Development Bureau sent the letter to consulates general in Hong Kong.
The letter says recent demonstrations affected the city's roads and international airport, but that they were soon put back to normal.
It says business activity in the city is as usual, and that the government will continue to maintain freedoms of speech and assembly. It also says the withdrawal of a controversial extradition bill was intended to move Hong Kong society forward.
The government is putting ads in leading US and Asian newspapers through next week to promote the government's stance.
A full-page ad in Thursday's edition of a major Australian paper says the government is "determined to achieve a peaceful, rational and reasonable resolution" and "resolutely committed to 'One Country, Two Systems.'"
The government estimates that the number of people who visited Hong Kong in August was down by half from a year before.
The government apparently aims to prevent the impact of the latest anti-government protests from further affecting Hong Kong's economy.
Key words : southern south
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The city assembly of Busan in southern South Korea has approved legislation identifying some Japanese companies as war criminals and urging local educational institutions not to buy their products.
The assembly passed the bill unanimously on Friday.
The bill labels Japanese companies involved in wartime labor by Koreans as World War Two criminals. It stipulates that educational institutions in the city have an obligation to make an effort to stop purchasing the firms' products.
It also stipulates that if such products are already in use, the institutions should work to identify them so that students can have a correct understanding of history.
The assembly also unanimously passed a bill to allow the installation of monuments on roads to mark historic incidents.
This may affect a plan by a civic group to install a statue in front of the Japanese Consulate-General that symbolizes those who they say were forced to work for Japanese companies during World War Two.
Key words : sources Mitsubishi
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Sources told NHK that Mitsubishi Aircraft has agreed with a US airline to negotiate the delivery of 100 of its flagship passenger plane.
The Japanese manufacturer is developing the country's first domestically built passenger jet, called "the Mitsubishi SpaceJet."
Mitsubishi Aircraft aims to deliver the plane in 2024. If the deal with Mesa Airlines is reached, it would be the first large-scale order of the 70-seat SpaceJet model.
Demand for passenger planes of that size is high in the US.
The firm has already received orders for its larger 90-seat model. The first deliveries are scheduled for next year, seven years behind schedule.
A series of technical problems prompted Mitsubishi Aircraft to rebrand its lineup this year, with the name changed from "Mitsubishi Regional Jet," or MRJ, to "SpaceJet."
The company now sees the smaller M100 model as its main product.
Key words : education minister
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Japan's education minister has asked that government documents use the traditional order for Japanese names written in English, with the family name before the given name.
Masahiko Shibayama made the request to other Cabinet members on Friday.
Japanese names written in English have been ordered in the Western style. But an education ministry panel said nearly 20 years ago that the traditional Japanese order should be adopted to honor the diversity of language and culture.
Shibayama told reporters that the panel's advice has not been widely shared.
The minister said the progress of globalization is making it more important to respect linguistic and cultural diversity.
He added that it's meaningful to write Japanese names in a way that reflects the country's traditions.
Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga told reporters that the Cabinet Office will lead discussions on the matter in line with the minister's remarks.
Asked whether the government will recommend the traditional order to the private sector, Suga said the education ministry will come up with ways to promote it while the government considers the matter.
Key words : Hokkaido remembering
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People in Japan's northern prefecture of Hokkaido are remembering the victims of a powerful earthquake that struck one year ago. Forty-four people died as a result of the quake and hundreds still remain in temporary housing.
Officials in Atsuma, the town hit hardest by the quake, paused at noon for a moment of silence.
The magnitude 6.7 quake hit a year ago early in the morning, cutting off power for millions of households.
Throughout the prefecture, buildings collapsed and roads cracked and buckled.
Most of the victims were here, where landslides off the mountainous slopes wiped out homes.
Now, many people are visiting to leave flowers and offer their prayers.
A man in his 50s said," I'm praying for the people of Atsuma town to be able to return to their normal lives as soon as possible."
A woman said, "I prayed for the victims' souls to rest peacefully and for there to be no more disasters."
Key words : cabinet decided first law
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Key words : researchers say
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Researchers say a dinosaur whose complete skeleton was found in Hokkaido, northern Japan, is a previously unknown species.
It has been given the scientific name of "Kamuysaurus japonicus," or "god of the dinosaurs." "Kamuy" refers to a deity of the Ainu, the indigenous people of Hokkaido.
The fossilized bones of the 8-meter-long dinosaur were unearthed in Mukawa Town in 2003. It is the largest complete dinosaur skeleton ever found in Japan.
The dinosaur is estimated to have weighed between 4 to 5.3 tons, and lived about 72 million years ago during the late Cretaceous Period.
The group led by Professor Yoshitsugu Kobayashi of the Hokkaido University Museum analyzed the lower jaw and backbone of the duck-billed herbivorous dinosaur and determined that it is a previously unknown species.
Kobayashi said research about these dinosaurs is only just beginning, and he hopes to find out how they lived.
Yoshiyuki Horita, who discovered the skeleton, said he is happy that the new name is related to Hokkaido.
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