Asian View
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/upld/medias/en/radio/news/20210122183000_english_1.mp3
Key words : people in Japan close attention change
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Key words : united nations banning
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20210122_02/
A United Nations treaty banning nuclear weapons enters into force on Friday.
The UN adopted the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in 2017, with 122 members voting in favor. The treaty takes effect from Friday in the 50 parties that had ratified or acceded to it by October 24.
The treaty includes a comprehensive set of prohibitions on participating in any nuclear weapon activities, such as the development, manufacture, possession, and use of such arms.
The treaty says its parties consider "that any use of nuclear weapons would be contrary to the rules of international law applicable in armed conflict, in particular the principles and rules of international humanitarian law."
As of Friday, the treaty had collected 51 instruments of ratification or accession as well as 86 signatories.
The signatories include neither nuclear-armed countries nor nations that rely on nuclear deterrent, such as NATO members, Japan, and South Korea. This means nuclear arsenals around the world will not shrink right away despite the treaty kicking in.
Countries that promote the treaty hope nuclear-armed nations will come under pressure if a new international norm is established under which nuclear weapons are considered illegal.
Focus is on whether the treaty will gain enough support to boost efforts on nuclear disarmament.
Key words : survivor kodama
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20210121_28/
Survivors of the 1945 US atomic bombings of Japan have urged the Japanese government to join a UN nuclear ban treaty that will take effect on Friday. They say Japan should take the lead in seeking the abolition of nuclear weapons.
The survivors, known as hibakusha, spoke about the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in a news conference at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan in Tokyo on Thursday.
Among the hibakusha is Kodama Michiko, who experienced the atomic bombing of Hiroshima when she was 7 years old.
Now 82 years old and assistant secretary general of the Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations, she said she was very pleased that the treaty makes nuclear weapons illegal.
But Kodama said it is really regrettable that the government of Japan, the only country to have suffered from the wartime use of atomic weapons, has not joined the treaty even now.
She said it should lead global efforts to eliminate nuclear arms and must join the treaty as soon as possible.
Another assistant secretary general of the group, 77-year-old Wada Masako, is a survivor of the Nagasaki atomic bombing.
Wada said US President Joe Biden should think about how inhumane nuclear weapons are as they destroy everything.
She said no progress has in effect been made since 2009, when Barack Obama, the US president at the time, said that he was pushing for a world without nuclear weapons.
She expressed hope that Biden will work for peace not only for the US but for the world.
A key Japanese member of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, or ICAN, Kawasaki Akira, told the news conference that the treaty will be a driving force in reducing nuclear arms in political, economic and social terms.
Kawasaki said they will work to increase the number of treaty members to more than 100 within a few years.
The treaty was adopted in July 2017. Last October, it reached the 50 ratifications required to go into force 90 days later.
Nuclear powers and countries such as Japan that fall under the nuclear umbrella have not joined the treaty.
Key words : Beijing mass
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20210122_01/
Authorities in a district of southern Beijing have conducted mass coronavirus testing after a strain prevalent in Britain was found there.
Daxing District has reported 11 infections since Sunday, with two confirmed to be the strain.
Local authorities placed some parts of the district under lockdown, with roughly 24,000 residents going into self-quarantine at home.
Officials said they had almost completed nucleic acid testing on about 1.55 million residents of the district by Thursday afternoon.
They said residents planning to travel outside Beijing should submit a negative test result obtained within three days of their departure.
China's government appears to be rushing to prevent the spread of the virus as the number of infections has been climbing in the country this month.
Infections are on the rise in the northeastern province of Heilongjiang. Some cases were also reported in central Shanghai on Thursday.
Key words : survivor deadly
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20210122_03/
A week has passed since a deadly earthquake rocked the Indonesian province of West Sulawesi last Friday. A medical volunteer organization says food supplies are running short, with some coronavirus cases found among survivors.
Authorities say the magnitude-6.2 quake has left at least 91 people dead and 1,172 injured. About 9,400 people remain displaced.
Rescue workers are searching for people believed to be trapped under collapsed buildings in Mamuju and Majene.
The Indonesian chapter of Japan-based international medical volunteer organization AMDA sent a 16-member team to areas hit by the quake two days after the disaster. The team has been providing medical care and handing out relief supplies.
Authorities have not announced the discovery of any coronavirus infections among survivors. But the AMDA team said it had confirmed infections in five people in just three days.
The head of the AMDA local branch pointed to serious food shortages in disaster areas and insufficient government support due to severed road access.
The leader added that the team has been calling on survivors to take anti-infection measures such as washing their hands, but that physical distancing in small tents is a challenge.
Key words : Setsuko Thurlow vow from hiroshima
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