オリンピックでのアメリカ選手の強盗にあったという嘘が恥ずかしいよ。と言っていた。^^
1) Tokyo governor Yuriko Koike is on her way to Rio de Janeiro to attend the Olympic flag handover ceremony.
Koike took office earlier this month. She left Haneda Airport for the Brazilian city on Thursday, starting a week-long trip.
She will receive the Olympic flag from the city mayor at the closing ceremony of the Games on Sunday. Tokyo hosts the next Olympics in 2020.
2) Sweltering heat gripped eastern and western Japan on Wednesday. Temperatures rose to nearly 40 degrees Celsius in some parts of the country.
3) A human rights advocacy group has criticized an immigration facility near Tokyo for serving a Muslim detainee a dish containing pork.
Islamic teachings ban consumption of pork.
4) A school event meant to teach students about the plight of atomic bomb survivors in Nagasaki City, southwestern Japan, has been cancelled due to a bomb threat.
The school was to hold the event on August 9th, the anniversary of the 1945 atomic bombing, and on the following day. It is located near ground zero.
The cancellation came after the Nagasaki Prefectural Government last month received an email threatening to bomb elementary and junior high schools in the prefecture. The email stated the bombing would occur on August 10th.
5) Sweltering heat gripped eastern and western Japan on Wednesday. Temperatures rose to nearly 40 degrees Celsius in some parts of the country.
Daytime highs in Tatebayashi City, Gunma, rose to 39.6 degrees. At Sano City in neighboring Tochigi Prefecture, it reached 38.3 degrees.
6) The US Olympic Committee has apologized for what it called unacceptable behavior by 4 US swimmers who were found to have lied about being robbed at gunpoint.
The committee on Thursday confirmed the version of events given by Brazilian police who determined that the athletes were not robbed.
The swimmers include Ryan Lochte, who won a gold medal in the men’s 4-by-200-meter freestyle relay at the Rio Games.
Lochte first said they were robbed at gunpoint when their taxi was stopped on the way to the athletes’ village from a club in Rio de Janeiro early on Sunday.
7) Japanese direct investment in China continues to fall as a result of rising labor costs and concern about the slowing economy.
China’s Commerce Ministry says direct investment from Japan was 1.91 billion dollars from January through July. That’s down 10.9 percent from the figure for the same period of last year.
Officials at an association of Japanese companies in China say investment is especially weak among firms that seek to export products from China to Japan and other countries.