Key words : kyushu communities
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20200714_16/
A new onslaught of heavy rain may bring even more flooding and landslides to Japan. Some 10,000 people in Chugoku region are urged to evacuate more than a week after severe weather first devastated Kyushu communities.
Officials called on people to leave their homes Tuesday, after a river in Shimane Prefecture burst its banks.
Parts of Fukuoka, Kumamoto and Hiroshima Prefectures saw intense downpours overnight.
The water caused a hill behind a home to collapse. Rescue crews are now struggling to move heaps of mud and debris.
No one has been able to contact the two people who live there.
Already hard-hit areas won't see any relief soon as the search continues for more than a dozen missing people.
Seventy-two others have died.
A weather expert says the rain that hit Kumamoto earlier this month poured in "like a river." It spread over an area as wide as 500 kilometers and carried more than half a million tons of water vapor per second.
Professor Tsuboki Kazuhisa at Nagoya University said, "The Amazon, the world's largest river, carries about 200,000 tons of water per second. A rough estimate of twice that amount was flowing into the Kumamoto region. The situation has not changed much, so we can still expect a substantial amount of vapor to flow in."
In the aftermath of the intense rain, communities are also pulling together to help those in need.
Officials say more than 14,000 homes and other buildings have been damaged.
Key words : weather Yoko Komagata China
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Many young Americans tracked the outbreaks in other states but refused to follow experts' advice. Now, their states are seeing record numbers of cases. NHK World's Catherine Kobayashi reports.
Key words : world health warn
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20200714_07/
The head of the World Health Organization has warned that many countries are not handling the coronavirus pandemic properly.
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters on Monday that 230,000 cases of COVID-19 were reported to the organization on Sunday.
He said "too many countries are headed in the wrong direction."
He also warned that "if governments do not roll out a comprehensive strategy focused on suppressing transmission and saving lives, the pandemic is going to get worse and worse and worse."
The WHO chief added that there will be no return to the "old normal" for the foreseeable future.
The head of the WHO's Health Emergencies Programme, Michael Ryan, referred to countries in North and South Americas where the virus continues to rage. He suggested that limited lockdowns may be required in specific areas where transmission is out of control.
He also referred to a two-member advance team that the WHO sent to China to lay the ground for a study into how the coronavirus began spreading there.
Ryan said that the two experts are in quarantine at the moment, and that they are already working with Chinese health authorities remotely.
He said the advance team will "lay out what the main questions, what the approach, what the studies that are going to be needed by a much larger international team that will work in collaboration with the Chinese colleagues over the coming weeks and months."
China's Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying told reporters on Monday that the two WHO experts had arrived in China for research on the source of the coronavirus.
But she did not elaborate on the schedule of their activity in the country.
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Key words : hong kong sudden
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Hong Kong has tightened measures against the coronavirus after a sudden spike in new cases.
Hong Kong had contained the local spread of the virus since May but the number of new cases started rising again in early July.
About 180 new cases have been confirmed for the past eight days through Monday.
Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam announced on Monday that gatherings of more than four people in public will be banned from Wednesday.
In restaurants, customers will not be allowed to dine inside establishments from 6 p.m. to 5 a.m. Only takeaways will be allowed during those times.
Other measures include mandatory mask-wearing on public transportation, including taxis and buses.
Violators will be fined up to 5,000 Hong Kong dollars, or about 645 US dollars.
The Hong Kong government introduced a range of preventive measures in March when the virus spread across the Chinese territory. It began to ease measures in May as the number of new cases declined.
The annual Hong Kong Book Fair, which attracts more than a million people, was scheduled to open on Wednesday. But the event has been postponed.
Key words : group infection
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Experts are urging people across Japan to remain vigilant, despite a slight reprieve Monday in recent daily coronavirus numbers. Officials in Okinawa are also concerned over a spike in cases connected to the US military.
Tokyo officials confirmed 119 new cases on Monday. The daily tally had topped 200 for four days in a row. The increase brings the total number of confirmed cases to more than 8,000 in the city of 14 million people.
Many of the recent cases are young people who work at or have visited nightlife districts. But officials have confirmed group infections in other areas too.
A total of 22 children and staff at a nursery in central Tokyo have been infected.
At a theater, 16 actors, five staff members, and 9 patrons are also among the latest numbers.
Clustered infections were confirmed at two hospitals near Tokyo.
Kaku Mitsuo at Tohoku Medical and Pharmaceutical University says, "Some cases may be derived from nightlife districts. But there are invisible threads of infection at other places. I believe community transmission is beginning to occur on the local level."
Kaku also says Japan should gradually resume social and economic activities while closely monitoring the situation.
In the southern prefecture of Okinawa, 98 people connected to the US military have been infected, including 71 from the Marine Corps Futenma Air Station.
More than 22,000 people have tested positive for the coronavirus in Japan. Nearly 1,000 people have died.
Key words : government considering allowing
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Sources tell NHK that Japan's government is considering allowing corporate executives from the United States and European countries to enter the country on certain conditions.
The government plans to allow in businesspeople from countries where coronavirus outbreaks have been largely contained.
Tokyo has already reached an agreement with Vietnam and aims to start negotiation with 10 other locations. These include China, South Korea and Taiwan.
Japan is also studying a plan to welcome corporate executives from the United States and European countries, where new cases are still appearing.
If allowed, it will likely be in small numbers and short periods of stay, after undergoing PCR tests for the coronavirus. Some government officials are calling for the executives to come to Japan by private jet.
Japan plans to beef up its testing capacities at airports to the point where around 10,000 people can be tested daily by September.
The government is also studying ways to ease entry restrictions on athletes and officials for the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics, which have been rescheduled for 2021.
Key words : death hong kong
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20200714_04/
Activists in Hong Kong have observed a moment of silence for Chinese activist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo, who died three years ago.
A civic group held a memorial ceremony on Monday, the third anniversary of his death, pledging to pick up where the Chinese pro-democracy icon left off.
Liu was imprisoned after criticizing the communist government's one-party rule. While in prison in 2010, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
He died on July 13, 2017, at the age of 61.
The memorial service has been held each year. It was staged this year as well, despite an intensifying government crackdown under the recently-implemented national security law.
During the event that was live-streamed online across the globe, a civic group member called on participants to keep the memory of Liu alive and continue to build on what their predecessors have achieved.
Key words : huawei
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20200714_21/
Huawei Technologies is reporting that sales in the first half of this year rose more than 10 percent from the same period a year earlier. But the pace of growth slowed, as the US stepped up its trade restrictions on the Chinese telecom giant.
Officials at Huawei say the figure for the six-month period stood at about 65 billion dollars. That's up 13 percent in yuan terms from last year.
The first half of 2019 saw a bigger rise of 23 percent. Other earnings details are not available as the company is not listed.
In May, Washington banned sales to Huawei of products made with US chip-manufacturing equipment. The restriction covers items made outside the US.
Huawei saw an increase in shipments of 5G base stations. Analysts believe that the Chinese government's call for more investment in the field of so-called "new infrastructure," which includes 5G networks, helped push those sales higher.
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