ハービーと洪水の話。それから北の話。Warという言葉がアメリカ人から出るとなんとなく不安になる。
1) A US ban on its citizens travelling to North Korea has come into effect, at a time of heightened tensions over North Korean missile launches.
2) Houston’s recovery from Hurricane Harvey flooding will be a “multi-year project”, Texas Governor Greg Abbott has said.
3) Growing concern about children eating alone has spurred a drive in Japan to offer free or low-cost meals for them at makeshift cafeterias.
Since the launch of the first such facility in Tokyo in 2012, the number of children’s diners has sharply increased to about 500.
4) North Korea fired a missile that flew over Japan and landed in waters off the northern region of Hokkaido at around 6 a.m. on Tuesday, South Korean and Japanese officials said, marking a sharp escalation of tensions on the Korean peninsula.
5) President Donald Trump is pledging $1 million in personal money to Harvey storm relief efforts.
6) Hundreds of people have paid tribute to the late atomic bomb survivor and peace activist Sumiteru Taniguchi.
The lifelong activist who called for the elimination of nuclear weapons died of cancer on Wednesday at the age of 88.
7) A Japanese government body has officially recommended a method known as “dry removal” to retrieve nuclear fuel debris from the damaged Fukushima Daiichi power plant.
8) A civic group is suing Japan’s government for using an inappropriate arbitrary figure to lower the price of state-owned land sold to a school corporation in Osaka.
The state-owned land in Toyonaka City, Osaka Prefecture, was sold to Moritomo Gakuen last year for about 7.3 million dollars less than its value.
9) Britain must use billions of pounds into new power plants, grid networks and electric vehicle charging points if it is to avoid local power shortages when a planned ban on new diesel and petrol cars begins.
10) A conference on the future of Pacific bluefin tuna stocks has wrapped up in South Korea. The delegates from tuna fishing countries around the Pacific Rim have agreed to a Japanese proposal on managing tuna stocks, but with tougher conditions.