at 18:30 (JST), January 27

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Key words : toyota grandson
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20230126_34/

Japan's Toyota Motor says its president Toyoda Akio will become chairman on April 1. He will maintain the right to represent the company.

The 66-year-old is a grandson of the automaker's founder Toyoda Kiichiro.

He became president in 2009, marking the first time in 14 years that a person from the founding family took the top position.

Chief Branding Officer Sato Koji will assume the presidency.
He joined Toyota in 1992. The 53-year-old is also the president of Lexus International in the Toyota group.

Key words : taliban
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20230126_41/

Taliban officials have said that more than one hundred people have died across the country so far this year due to Afghanistan's coldest winter in a decade.

A strong cold air mass has flowed into the region, making temperatures lower than usual. In areas around the capital Kabul, temperatures fell below minus 20 degrees Celsius this month.

Authorities said many people, including children, have died of health problems or frozen to death.

In the southern Province of Kandahar, a woman named Najiba lost her one-year-old granddaughter Ahmedia early this month. She died after falling ill.

Najiba said that her granddaughter's father is a day laborer. The family had no money to buy enough food, or gas or firewood to heat their home.

She said her granddaughter "was like a light for our family. It was so cold this year that we couldn't warm her up."

The Taliban is calling for help from the United Nations and other countries. The UN estimates 28 million people, two-thirds of Afghanistan's population, are suffering from poverty and food shortages and need emergency humanitarian aid.

Key words : criminal court
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20230127_27/

The International Criminal Court has cleared the way for prosecutors to resume a probe into the so-called war on drugs in the Philippines.

Judges at The Hague-based court have authorized a prosecutor to reactivate an investigation into alleged crimes against humanity between 2011 and 2019.

The inquiry was suspended in 2021 after Manila said it was already examining the crimes, and argued the court didn't have jurisdiction.

Government records show more than 6200 drug suspects were killed, and many of them were people who lived in poverty.

Human rights advocates believe the actual death toll is much higher.

Former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte openly threatened drug suspects with death, but he's defended the crackdown as being "lawfully directed".

Duterte withdrew the Philippines from the ICC in 2019 after it opened the investigation, and the country's current President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has said his country does not intend to rejoin the court.

Meanwhile, the Philippine government responded to the ICC's decision in a statement on Friday, saying "our own domestic judicial processes should take precedence, and we can show that despite structural and resource limitations in our legal system, it is still a well-functioning system that yields positive results in its own time."

Key words : indonesia human rights
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