Glad to have you with us on NHK Newsline. I'm Yuko Fukushima.
Danger Increases as Typhoon Nears
A large and powerful typhoon is moving north over the Pacific, bringing Japan's Izu Islands and parts of the Konto region within its storm zone.
The Japan Meteorological Agency has issued a level 5 emergency warning for Oshima Town in the Izu Islands, Tokyo Prefecture.
A level 5 emergency warning is the highest level of alert on the agency's scale.
Oshima town has received 781.5 millimeters of rain in the 48 hours through 4 pm on Monday.
That's more than twice its average rainfall for September.
The meteorological agency also held a news conference to share the latest information.
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It is extremely likely that some kind of disaster has already occurred in the landslide warning zone and other areas. People's lives are in imminent danger.
Please ensure your safety immediately.
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The agency added that if it is more dangerous to travel to designated evacuation areas, people should move to upper levels of buildings as far as possible from cliffs and waterways.
The agency says that as of 4 p.m. on Monday, Typhoon Dujuan was believed to be heading northeast over waters south of Japan at 30 kilometers per hour.
In the one hour through 3 pm, Yokohama city received 44.5 millimeters of rain, while Chiba city recorded 41 millimeters of intense rainfall.
In the Kanto-Koshin, Tokai and Tohoku regions, very heavy rain accompanied by lightning is expected.
A linear rain band may form in large areas of Kanto-Koshin and the Izu Islands.
It may develop in the Izu Islands and Kanagawa and Yamanashi prefectures through early evening and in Tokyo, Chiba, Saitama and Ibanaki prefectures through late Monday.
Weather officials are urging vigilance for landslides and violent winds.
They are also warning people to watch out for swollen or overflowing rivers, flooding in low-lying areas and high waves.
Rainfall and strong winds are expected to intensify further as the typhoon approaches.
People are urged to stay in safe places and avoid unnecessary travel.
Transportation services are also being disrupted.
People are advised to check the latest information.
Being safe and smart are key during a level 5 emergency warning.
Our meteorologist, Jonathan Oh, tells us what those of you in the affected areas need to do now.
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A level 5 emergency warning is in effect, which means if you are in the affected area, you need to take immediate survival action.
The Japan Meteorological Agency issues the top level warning when a natural disaster is imminent or the natural disaster is already taking place.
This means that you need to put your evacuation plan into action now.
Get to the safe location if it is all possible, make sure you take your emergency supplies with you, avoid drainage areas in the process and make sure that you pay attention to the latest weather warning alerts.
There are situations such as nighttime as well as things like landslides and inundation that could prevent you from getting to your safe location.
So if that's the case in the case of landslides, get away from sloped areas and in case of flooding, make sure you get to the higher floors and try to ride out the storm as much as possible.
Again, take immediate safety action right now.
World Leaders Set to Address UN General Assembly
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World leaders are meeting in New York on Tuesday for the start of high-level speeches at the United Nations General Assembly.
US President Donald Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Takaichi Sanae are among those scheduled to speak on the first day.
Trump criticized the UN in his speech last year, saying the world body failed to live up to expectations. He called UN-led measures against climate change a scam.
On Wednesday, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy are scheduled to address the assembly, both lead countries currently involved in conflicts.
Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas are expected to speak on Thursday. Abbas will appear via pre-recorded video.
The Trump administration has denied him entry into the US for a second straight year.
The General Assembly is taking place as the UN selects a successor to Secretary General Antonio Guterres, whose term expires at the end of the year.
His successor will be the first new UN chief in ten years.
Attention is focused on how world leaders will deal with current world conflicts and what stances they will take toward UN-led multinational cooperation on issues including climate change and artificial intelligence.
Ukraine Conducts Massive Attacks on Moscow Facilities
Ukraine has carried out large-scale attacks on Russia's capital.
The strikes on an oil refinery and other sites took place amid Russia's parliamentary election. The mayor of Moscow criticized Ukraine for the attacks.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in a social media post on Sunday that the long-range strikes had a very significant impact on the Moscow region.
He wrote that the key Russian oil and logistics facilities had been hit.
Zelenskyy also said drones and missiles, including a new domestic cruise missile, the Flamingo, were used in the strikes.
The mayor of Moscow wrote on social media on Sunday that the largest-scale attack by enemy drones on the capital had been repelled.
He said more than 1,600 drones were shot down across Russia and that 450 of them had been approaching Moscow.
The mayor also said several drones reached the premises of an oil refinery and a residential building in the city, but he said there were no fatalities.
Sunday was the final day of voting in Russia's lower house election.
The mayor said the attacks were clearly aimed at disrupting the vote but did not succeed.
German Election: AfD Gains in State Parliaments
Germany held elections on Sunday.
As a result, the Alternative for Germany, or AfD, party has become the leading party in one state parliament, while the center-right Christian Democratic Union, or CDU, has failed to secure any seat.
The AFD advocates anti-immigrant policies and has been designated as a far-right group in some states.
The public broadcaster ZDF says that the AfD has gained 32 of 71 parliamentary seats in the northeastern state of Mecklenburg, western Pomerania to become the largest party in the state.
The party had earlier won a plurality of states in the eastern states of Thuringia and Saxony and Holt.
The CDU, headed by Chancellor Friedrich Merz, failed to reach the 5 percent threshold needed to secure a seat.
This is the first time the CDU has lost representation in the state parliament.
Merz issued a statement after the polls closed describing the outcome as a disaster.
He indicated he will stay on, saying he will demonstrate his qualities as a leader of the CDU and as German chancellor.
As a result of the election, the AfD also became the third largest party in Berlin's state parliament.
WSJ: Washington Preparing Sanctions on ICC
A major US newspaper says the administration of US President Donald Trump is preparing to impose sweeping sanctions on the International Criminal Court.
The Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday that the sanctions would forbid most transactions with the ICC after a grace period of six to seven months.
The article said the measures could potentially cripple the court by prohibiting it from conducting transactions in US dollars, cutting it off from much of the global financial system.
The newspaper described the administration's move as a sharp escalation in Washington's efforts to dismantle the court.
The paper made the report by signing documents and US officials.
The administration implemented sanctions on the ICC's leadership, including President Akane Tomoko, last month.
The measures call for any assets held in the US to be frozen.
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Easy Japanese
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Hi there.
It's time for NHK World Japan's Easy Japanese.
I'm Erico Kojima.
00:10:15 話者 5
And I'm Michael Reese.
Let's have fun learning Japanese together.
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Today we bring you lesson 30 on expressing a variety of things such as what you've done or what you're going to do.
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The main character of our skit is Tab, a student from Vietnam.
She's come to a cafe with Mia, a photographer from China.
Tam tells Miya about her memories of a Japanese music student, Yuki.
00:10:44 話者 4
Listen to the skit for lesson 30.
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Now let's go through the conversation line by line.
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The waitress brings over parfaits and says.
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Here are your melon parfaits! Tam exclaims, They look delicious.
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As they enjoy the food, Mia asks.
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Tam, where did you first meet Yuki-san?
Tam replies, In Vietnam.
We were volunteering at an elementary school.
We sang songs and danced together.
Miya says, I see.
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Tam continues.
00:12:09 話者 4
Yes, I'd like to meet him again.
00:12:12 話者 5
It's a nice memory, Tam and Yuki singing and dancing with the children.
00:12:16 話者 4
I hope they have another chance to get together.
00:12:26 話者 5
Today's key phrase is We sang songs and danced together.
Once you learn this pattern, you'll be able to express various things, such as what you've done and what you're going to do.
00:12:42 話者 4
Now, let's break it down.
Ishoni means together.
Utattari is to sing utau with the ending becoming tari.
Odottari is to dance Odoru also with the tari ending.
Shimashita means did.
When you want to list some examples out of a number of actions, use the 'tari' form of the verb.
To make the 'tari' form, change the 'te' at the end of the verb's 'te' form to 'tari'.
00:13:20 話者 5
In the key phrase, out of the many things Tam did together with Yuki, she listed two: singing and dancing.
That's why she said 'utatari odottari'.
00:13:31 話者 4
And because the actions were in the past, the sentences ends with did, shimashita.
00:13:38 話者 5
Okay, give it a try.
Listen and repeat out loud.
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Udattari odottari shimashita.
Ishoni utattari odottari shimashita.
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Now, listen to a conversation.
A tourist is listing what he wants to do in Hokkaido.
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Hokkaido denani wo shimasuka.
Hai gingo study.
Onseni haitari status.
00:14:24 話者 4
Here is the meaning.
00:14:26 話者 8
Hokkaido denani wo shimasuka.
00:14:29 話者 5
What are you going to?
do in Hokkaido.
00:14:32 話者 4
Hokkaido de means in Hokkaido.
Naniyoshimasuka means what are you going to do?
00:14:40 話者 8
Hiking goshitari.
Onseni haittari staidus.
00:14:44 話者 5
I want to go hiking and go bathing in a hot spring.
00:14:48 話者 4
Hiking goshitari is hiking gosuru to go hiking in the tari form and onseni haittari is
to go bathing in a hot spring in the tari form.
In this sentence, the speaker is explaining what he wants to do.
So, he says, want to at the end.
See?
tari can be used to express things in the past as well as in the future.
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Listen and repeat out loud.
00:15:21 話者 4
Hai-king-yo-shitari, onseni-hattari shitai desu.
00:15:31 話者 5
Let's try some other examples.
Imagine you took a trip to Okinawa and someone asks you what you did.
How would you say, I went shopping and swam in the ocean?
00:15:52 話者 4
To go shopping is...
Tsuru or to do in the Tari form is Shitari and to swim in the ocean is Umi de oyogu.
Umi de oyogu.
To swim in the Tari form is Oyoi dari.
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Oyoi dari.
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Go ahead.
00:16:28 話者 8
Gaimono ostari.
Today's bonus phrase is what Tam says when she sees her parfait.
00:16:49 話者 5
So why don't you memorize it?
00:16:54 話者 4
Oishiso means it looks delicious.
To say delicious while eating something, use oishii.
But to say it looks delicious before you eat it, use oishiso.
00:17:08 話者 5
Give a listen to various people saying it.
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Oishiso.
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Now it's your turn.
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Now, listen to the skit once again.
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On now to Kaito is your food guide.
00:18:06 話者 5
In today's skit, Tam and Mia had melon parfaits, so the topic this time is Japanese sweets.
You can find all kinds of sweet things in Japan, such as traditional Japanese and Western confections.
00:18:22 話者 4
That's true.
But many of the items known as Western style have spawned variations in Japan.
For example, Shotokeiki.
It may look like strawberry shortcake, but it uses a sponge cake.
00:18:35 話者 5
Kind of a Japanese twist on it.
00:18:38 話者 4
Rice cakes, rice crackers, and bean paste buns are old favorites.
Others come and go with the seasons, like shaved ice in the summer called kakigori and sweet red bean soup called zenzai in winter.
00:18:51 話者 5
And then there are East meets West confections such as matcha flavored cake.
00:18:57 話者 4
Japanese sweets are also known for their visual appeal in spring cherry blossom motifs are all around and in summer some items look like starry skies and clear streams they're really pretty to look at.
00:19:11 話者 5
Indeed and we hope you'll have the opportunity to savor both the look and of course the flavor of Japanese sweets.
00:19:28 話者 4
Did you enjoy today's Easy Japanese?
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Join us again next time.
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Tokyo Skytree
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Japan has various kinds of landmarks that fascinate visitors.
They range from cultural and historic locations to modern buildings created with cutting-edge technologies.
What led to their creation and what were the challenges involved?
The Backstory of Japanese Landmarks brings you the stories behind these amazing places.
In this episode of The Backstory of Japanese Landmarks, we feature the world's tallest broadcast tower, Tokyo Skytree.
Tokyo Skytree is 634 meters tall.
Other landmarks such as the Tokyo Tower and Paris's Eiffel Tower have wide bases.
But Tokyo Skytree is slim and more like a spire.
Its color, named Skytree White, is based on the lightest shade of Japanese indigo blue.
The tower can be seen from a great distance, but when people first see it, something its form is rather simple.
Tokyo Skytree was built using state-of-the-art Japanese technology.
But that's not all.
Traditional skills, respected and handed down over generations of craftspeople, also played a vital role in its construction.
The base of Tokyo Skytree is triangular in shape when seen from above.
This was designed to let people enter from the three sides of the surrounding areas.
Meanwhile, the two observation decks at the heights of 350 meters and 450 meters are round and offer a 360-degree panoramic view.
This means the cross-section of the tower's base is a triangle but becomes round toward the top.
Looking more carefully, Tokyo Skytree's outline is not made of straight lines.
The lines are actually slightly curved.
Depending where the tower is viewed from, some parts of the tower warp inwards, while other parts bulge outwards.
This comes from traditional Japanese architecture.
The inward warp is called sori, while the outward curve is called mukuri.
Tokyo Skytree's towering outline is a combination of sori and mukuri.
A particularly important feature of Tokyo Skytree is its earthquake resistance.
The tower's construction began in 2008.
Three years later, in 2011, a massive earthquake struck eastern Japan.
After overcoming a number of challenges posed by the disaster, the tower was completed in 2012.
Tokyo Skytree has an outer frame and an inner column.
The two are structurally detached.
During an earthquake, the column acts as a weight and moves in the opposite direction as the outer frame.
This reduces the impact of tremors.
This anti-seismic structure was inspired by a traditional Japanese structure, the five-story pagoda.
Five-story pagodas of Buddhist temples have a column at the center, similar to Tokyo Skytree.
Due to their excellent quake resistance,
There are no records of any wooden pagodas collapsing in an earthquake in Japan's history.
Japan's oldest five-story pagoda is in Horyuji Temple in Nara, built more than 1,400 years ago.
The wisdom of ancient people lives on in today's advanced technologies.
Thank you for tuning in to the backstory of Japanese landmarks.
We hope you have a chance to visit these landmarks and see for yourself what makes them so special.
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