Asian View
Key words : metropolitan few more
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The Tokyo Metropolitan Government has announced that Governor Koike Yuriko will take a few more days off from her duties.
Koike was hospitalized last Tuesday due to extreme fatigue. Tokyo government officials said on Sunday evening that she needs to continue to rest.
Vice Governor Tarao Mitsuchika will continue to take over her duties.
The governor's absence comes less than one month before Tokyo hosts the summer Olympics. Health experts also warn there are signs of a possible resurgence of coronavirus cases in the capital.
Residents will vote to select members of the Metropolitan Assembly on July 4.
Koike is the special advisor of a local political party called TOMIN First. But it's not clear if she will be involved in the election campaign.
Key words : athletes delta tested daily
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The Japanese government says it will ask athletes and others coming from six countries for the Olympic and Paralympic Games to be tested daily for the coronavirus for seven days prior to departure.
The measure applies to participants from India, Nepal, Pakistan, Maldives, Sri Lanka and Afghanistan, where the Delta variant is spreading. The highly contagious variant was first identified in India.
The measure will take effect on July 1.
The government and the organizing committee have already asked all foreign teams to have members tested twice within four days prior to departure, and every day in principle after arriving in Japan.
The latest step will also require that participants from Egypt, Vietnam, Malaysia, Britain and Bangladesh be tested every day for three days prior to departure.
Athletes will be allowed to practice, provided they do not come into contact with others not on their teams for three days after arriving in Japan.
Key words : 57-year-old
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Hong Kong police have arrested another senior staff member of the now-closed Apple Daily newspaper for allegedly violating the national security law. The paper was critical of Beijing.
Police said on Monday that they had taken a 57-year-old man related to the paper into custody. Officials said he was arrested on suspicion of endangering national security by colluding with foreign forces.
Hong Kong media outlets say the arrested man was an editorial writer for Apple Daily, Fung Wai-kong, who was also in charge of the pro-democracy paper's English edition.
The media outlets say he was detained at the airport on Sunday night, as he was about to leave for Britain.
The move has brought to seven the number of senior staff members from the paper who are under arrest.
Apple Daily was closed last week after its assets were frozen.
In a separate move, a Hong Kong-based online pro-democracy media outlet, Stand News, said in a statement on Sunday that it will temporarily remove commentaries and readers' letters published in May or earlier. It said it will speak with the writers.
The statement said Hong Kong has changed and that the publication must protect its writers amid the suppression of free speech.
Six of the eight directors at Stand News have reportedly resigned.
The media outlet has extensively reported on pro-democracy activities and protest rallies. Observers say it could be the next to face a crackdown by the authorities.
Key words : new museum opened
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A new museum about the history of the Chinese Communist Party was shown to domestic and foreign media on Friday.
The facility, built on 150,000 square meters of land, opened in Beijing this month, ahead of the party's 100th anniversary in July.
There are more than 6,000 exhibits, including footage of Chairman Mao Zedong proclaiming the founding of the People's Republic of China.
They are divided into four groups, one of which is dedicated to the period since President Xi Jinping took office. China's space development program and the country's response to the coronavirus pandemic are covered in detail.
Chinese state-run media say President Xi has visited the museum and instructed people to learn about the party's history.
Key words : ichiro
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Chinese leaders are preparing to mark the 100th anniversary of the Communist Party next month.
As part of events to celebrate the occasion, workers are busy putting the final touches on a new museum.
The building measures 150,000 square meters. Dignitaries and the media have already gotten a sneak peek inside.
The museum is packed with more than 6,000 exhibits. They include footage of Chairman Mao Zedong proclaiming the founding of the People's Republic of China.
There's also a section dedicated to the achievements of President Xi Jinping.
Other exhibits feature the country's response to the coronavirus pandemic and China's space program.
About a quarter of the entire museum is dedicated to the period since Xi became president.
The anniversary is being given a lot of attention by the country's print and electronic media. The state-run Xinhua news agency says nearly 100 TV dramas are scheduled to be aired throughout the year.
Beijing is not just trying to raise its profile domestically.
It is also eager to step up its messaging to the world at a time when the United States and Europe are expressing growing concern over the situation in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region and Hong Kong.
In a meeting last month, President Xi said they must work to create an image of China as a country that is "humble, trustworthy, loved and respected".
Professor Korogi Ichiro of Kanda University of International Studies said, "The Communist Party is not a party of elected people, so it needs to make an effort to stress that China's growth is thanks to the party."
He also said an issue at the party's national congress next year will be whether to extend Xi's term. The professor added that makes the centenary all the more important as an opportunity to raise his profile.
Key words : indonesia
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Indonesia is being hit by a resurgence of the coronavirus as its daily tally of new cases set a record high of more than 20,000 on Saturday.
Indonesia has had the highest number of coronavirus infections in Southeast Asia.
The daily tally of new cases in the country dropped to about 2,400 temporarily before rising again early this month to reach an all-time high of 21,095 on Saturday.
The Indonesian government attributes the surge to increased travel during the consecutive holidays in May following Ramadan. It says the Delta variant of the virus, first identified in India, has also been spreading in Indonesia.
The country's medical system has been acutely strained.
In the capital, Jakarta, 90 percent of the hospital beds available for COVID-19 patients are already occupied.
In the neighboring province of West Java, treatment is being given to patients in tents set up outside hospitals, due to the shortage of beds.
Health ministry officials have desperately been trying to secure more hospital beds by designating national hospitals at three locations in Jakarta exclusively for treating COVID-19 patients.
The government has also ordered domestic manufacturers of oxygen to ship their products for industrial use to medical institutions.
The Japan External Trade Organization, or JETRO, says some of the roughly 1,900 Japanese companies operating in Indonesia have begun to repatriate their Japanese employees, due to the increased infections.
Key words : nuclear power plant
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The operator of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant plans to start removing fuel debris from inside one of the damaged reactors next year.
The No.1, 2 and 3 reactors suffered meltdowns following a major earthquake and tsunami in March 2011. Molten nuclear fuel fell down and solidified again to form debris in the reactors.
Extracting the extremely radioactive debris is thought to be the biggest challenge in the decommissioning process.
Tokyo Electric Power Company and the Japanese government plan to start removal work on the No.2 reactor as they have obtained the most detailed data from inside the unit.
TEPCO had originally planned to begin the work this year. But the company had to postpone it by about a year because the coronavirus pandemic delayed the development of a robot to be used in the operation.
The company says the robot completed testing procedures in Britain and will likely be delivered to Japan as early as next month.
The utility is now aiming to start removing debris from the No.2 reactor in 2022, after putting the robot through performance tests and giving its operators the necessary training.
Meanwhile, TEPCO says it wants to conduct a robotic survey on the interior of the No.1 reactor by the end of next March to get more data on debris in the unit.
Earlier this month, the company started work to cut and clear metal floor segments, electric cables and other objects that may hamper the robotic research.
Key words : ichigaya
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Visitors to a World War Two underground bunker in Tokyo will soon be able to enjoy a virtual tour which covers the area not open to the public.
The bunker was built by the now-defunct Imperial Japanese Army during the war as a shelter from air raids. It is located on what is now the defense ministry premises in Ichigaya, Tokyo. The army's supreme headquarters was housed there during the wartime.
Japan's Defense Ministry has opened the bunker to the public since August last year, but some parts have been kept off-limits due to their deteriorated condition.
The ministry decided to give a virtual tour of the areas to visitors beginning Thursday.
Visitors will be given a tablet so they can have the virtual experience of moving around within a tunnel, viewing the remains of the army minister's room or stairs connecting to above ground.
Suga Yoshio of the public relations department of the Ministry says he wants visitors looking at the images to feel what it was like during the war. He called on people to visit the place as the measures against the coronavirus are fully in place.
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