Key words : campaign officially kicked off
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Campaigning officially kicked off in Japan on Tuesday to choose the next leader of the main ruling party.
Three candidates are making their pitches in the hopes of being named president of the Liberal Democratic Party. The winner is set to become the country's next prime minister, as Abe Shinzo is stepping down because of health issues.
Representatives from the three camps are filling out paperwork at the party headquarters to launch their official campaigns.
The race will likely focus on how much each candidate would stick with Abe's policies, including on the coronavirus, the economic fallout, and revitalizing rural areas.
Ishiba Shigeru is running to be party leader for the fourth time. The former LDP Secretary-General and defense minister has long been seen as Abe's rival.
Ishiba says he would improve living standards in rural areas by creating jobs and raising incomes.
Chief Cabinet Secretary Suga Yoshihide has been one of Abe's closest aides. He has served as the top government spokesperson throughout Abe's nearly 8 years in office.
Suga is promising to continue Abe's policies. That includes his goal of containing the new coronavirus, while maintaining economic activity.
LDP policy chief Kishida Fumio says he would promote economic policies prioritizing middle-income earners.
He is also pledging to use his experience as a former foreign minister to put Japan's technology and culture at the center of the country's diplomacy.
535 votes will decide the winner next Monday.
394 of those will be cast by party lawmakers. The remainder will come from representatives of local LDP chapters, which have three votes each.
The party will announce the new president later the same day.
Key words : GDP
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Japan's GDP for the April to June quarter has been revised downward, confirming that the economy shrank at a record pace as the coronavirus impact was bigger than initially estimated.
The Cabinet Office now says the economy shrank at an annualized rate of minus 28.1 percent in real terms. That's a bit worse than preliminary figure of minus 27.8 percent announced in August, which was already a record.
Corporate capital spending was the biggest drag. Businesses are holding off from making investments due to the economic uncertainty.
Personal consumption, which accounts for more than half of Japan's GDP, was hit hard as well.
The quarter-on-quarter figure was revised to minus 7.9 percent from minus 8.2 percent announced earlier.
But things may be turning around. Many private research firms are forecasting that the Japanese economy will grow in the July-September period.
The focus is now on whether Japan can quickly put its economy back on track while trying to contain the coronavirus.
Key words : Japan entry
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The Japanese government is easing entry restrictions for travelers from Taiwan, Malaysia, Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar on Tuesday.
Long-term residents, like expatriate workers, will now be able to travel back and forth between Japan and these regions.
The move is in line with the government's stance that Japan will allow in travelers from countries and territories where the coronavirus pandemic is largely contained.
Japan has already eased travel restrictions for long-term residents from Vietnam and Thailand.
The government aims to strike a deal with Singapore by the end of this month to mutually admit both short- and long-term visitors.
Tokyo is also in negotiations with China, South Korea and Australia. It hopes to revive Japan's economy by gradually reopening its borders.
Key words : motegi
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Japan's Foreign Minister Motegi Toshimitsu has pledged to help Mauritius restore the country's ecosystem which was damaged by an oil spill from a Japanese cargo ship that went aground in July.
Motegi talked with Mauritian Prime Minister Pravind Jugnauth by telephone on Monday.
Motegi told Jugnauth that he takes the oil spill seriously. He said Japan will work for safe navigation, a recovery in the ecosystem, and provide fishery equipment as part of efforts for an economic recovery in Mauritius.
Motegi said the cooperation will be of an unprecedented scale and include financial support. Japan has already sent disaster relief teams.
Jugnauth expressed gratitude for Japan's offer. He said he does not think Japan is responsible for the accident, and thanked Japan for its cooperation.
After the talks, Motegi told reporters that Japan's package of support measures has almost been finalized and he outlined it in his conversation with the Mauritian prime minister.
He said they agreed to work closely together for an environmental restoration and economic recovery. Motegi also said he wants to quickly proceed with supplying equipment to fishermen.
Key words : cleaning
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People in parts of Japan and South Korea are cleaning up after Typhoon Haishen battered both countries.
The storm left two people dead and several others are missing in southwest Japan. 96 others were injured in the country.
Haishen brought strong winds and heavy rain to Kyushu and other regions.
In Kagoshima Prefecture, a woman died from a head injury after falling into a gutter on her way to a friend's house.
In Saga prefecture, a man died after he fell trying to protect his house from the storm.
In Miyazaki Prefecture, rescue crews are searching for four people who may have been in buildings that were hit by a landslide and swept into a nearby river.
Two of them are Vietnamese trainees who work at a local construction company.
The owner of the company spent 10 hours trapped by a mudslide but was eventually able to free himself.
In South Korea, the storm claimed at least 2 lives after it made landfall on the southeastern tip of the peninsula.
Local media say about 3,000 people were displaced, two remain missing and five are injured.
Key words : report monitor river
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Key words : chinese government
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The Chinese government has expressed its support of recent remarks by Hong Kong's top leader over separation of powers in the territory.
Hong Kong's Chief Executive Carrie Lam said on Tuesday last week that the city's political system has no separation of powers between the executive, legislative and judicial branches.
She said that in Hong Kong, the executive branch supersedes the legislative and judicial branches.
Pro-democracy activists reacted sharply, saying her remarks show Beijing's intention to tighten its control over Hong Kong.
On Monday, a spokesperson for the Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office of the State Council said in a statement that Hong Kong's high degree of autonomy, including executive, legislative and judicial powers, was granted by the central government.
The official also said the central government still retains certain powers that embody national sovereignty, emphasizing that the separation of powers has never existed in Hong Kong.
The spokesperson said that late Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping had stated while making Hong Kong's Basic Law in 1987 that the city was not suitable for separation of powers.
The spokesperson criticized opposition leaders who advocate separation of powers.
The official said they are seeking to evade the central government's comprehensive governance over Hong Kong and challenge the constitutional order of the region. The spokesperson said the opposition seeks to turn Hong Kong into an independent political entity separated from central governance.
Key words : Belarus detained
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Anti-government protests are intensifying in Belarus after opposition activists were detained or expelled from the former Soviet republic.
The mass protests began nearly a month ago after President Alexander Lukashenko was reelected for his sixth term in August. His critics say the election was rigged.
The administration of Lukashenko has been cracking down on leading members of the Coordination Council, a body set up by opposition forces.
One of the council's senior members, Maria Kolesnikova, is believed to have been taken away by masked men into a vehicle in the capital Minsk on Monday.
Among the other six executive members of the council, two have been detained by authorities, one has been expelled and another has fled to Poland.
Only two executive members, including Nobel laureate Svetlana Alexievich, are still in the country, continuing the protests.
Supporters of the council are accusing the authorities of suppressing the opposition leaders by ruling with an iron fist.
Key words : weather Yoko Komagata
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