Translator the evidence, documents and findings we have obtained corroborate the prediction that this attack was carried out by the Islamic State militant group. The findings point to them, but this will be declared officially once the investigation is completed. Turkish media report that the man from southern russia had been operating in istanbul since late may. He reportedly traveled from raqqah, the northern syrian city that the Islamic State group calls its capital. People are shocked and concerned by the attack not only in the country but in places like japan. More than 4,000 people from turkey live here, and nhk world spoke to some of them. Reporter this man came to turkey five years ago. He teaches turkish at a center. People are studying the language and culture here. He says he is sad another terror attack struck his homeland and that many were killed and injured. He says true muslims would never even think of committing a terror attack and Islamic State militants shouldnt be called muslims. The attack hit close to home for this woman. She doesnt want to be identified because of safety concerns. Some of her relatives work near the istanbul airport. Theyre safe, but she says its still shocking that the attack happened in the holy month of ramadan. I called some of my friends, theyre also so afraid for turkish people, muslim people, ramadan month is so important because this months meaning is peace. Reporter this japanese student is very interested in turkish literature. She hopes people in the country overcome this difficult situation. Istanbul is i think its a city of diversity and also it has the ambience of freedom little by little. I think we can stand up and we have to move on. Reporter despite the shadow these attacks have cast, turkish people in tokyo say theyre staying strong and will keep praying for peace. Kurando tago, nhk world, tokyo. Former mon done mayor Boris Johnson has ruled out trying to replace David Cameron as leader of britains conservative party. Cameron announced his resignation from Prime Minister when his remain side lost the brexit vote. Johnson who pushed to leave the eu was considered a frontrunner for the position. Having consulted colleagues and the view of circumstances in parliament, i have concluded that person cannot be me. Johnson faced growing criticism within his party for switching to the leave camp. He was initially believed to have a pro eu stance. Critics saw the switch as a chance for him to become new Prime Minister. New party leader and Prime Minister is expected to be in place by early september. That person will have the task of negotiating the uks exit from the eu. Japanese Prime Minister shinzo abe said he spoke with two of his eu counterparts after britains exit from the eu. He spoke to David Cameron and Angela Merkel in two separate phone conversations. He told them he hopes britain and the eu will cooperate to eliminate market concerns. He cited the consensus reached at mays g7 summit in japan. The leaders agreed to take all necessary measures at appropriate times to avoid a new crisis. Translator i hope the british and german leaders will exercise strong leadership. Abe says he asked cameron to ensure japanese businesses in the uk are not adversely affected. He also says cameron pledged to take every possible measure to protect japanese firms. Prosecutors in okinawa has indicted a u. S. Base worker and former marine for murder and other charges. Hes responsible for the death of a 20yearold japanese woman in april. The written indictment says 32yearold Kenneth Franklin shinzato attacked the woman while she was out for a walk. He reportedly hit the woman with a club while attempting to rape her. Shinzato then stabbed and killed her. Prosecutors havent commented on whether the defendant has admitted to the charges. Law enforcement Officials Say shinzato hinted at committing the murder shortly after he was arrested. Shinzato has reportedly said nothing about the alleged crime since. The womans body was found abandoned in a wooded area. Police have yet to find the knife used in the crime. Prosecutors apparently decided the defendants quick confession is credible supported by other evidence collected by investigators. Its time for the latest in business news. Bank of japan officials have just released important data that tells us about the mood among businesses. Ai uchida joins from us the business desk. Good morning. What do the numbers say . Good morning, catherine. The tankan comes out every quarter. Boj officials reached out to 10,000 firms across japan and asked them what do they think about business conditions. The latest data Shows Confidence was unchanged for large manufacturers, but it did worsen for nonmanufactures. The index expresses the difference in the percentages of firms that say business is good from those who say its bad. A positive reading means more companies are optimistic. Now, the survey shows the headline index of sentiment by large manufacturers was at plus six. Thats unchanged from the previous quarter. The index for major nonmanufacturers was plus 19. Thats down three points from before. Now, japanese officials have released other key economic data, too, so lets start with the latest Consumer Price index. The Officials Say the officials at the internal affairs ministry, that is, say the may cpi was down 0. 4 from the same month last year. That is the Third Straight month of decline. The index includes oil products but not fresh food. Now, the reading was up 0. 6 when all types of energy and food are excluded. That figure has risen for 32 straight months. And consumers continue to keep a grip on their wallets. Household spending declined for the third month in a row, too. Officials say households with two or more people in may cut back by 1. 1 from a year ago. Average spending per household was about 282,000 yen. Thats more than 2,700. And the Officials Say the Unemployment Rate in may stood at 3. 2 . That figure was unchanged from the previous month. Meanwhile, officials at the Labor Ministry say the ratio of job offers to people looking for work was 1. 36. That means there were 136 openings for every 100 job seekers. The figure edged up 0. 02 points from april. Many people were expecting the tankan index to worsen, but it actually came in roughly in line with analysts estimates but cpi and Household Spending were as affected as well. Lets see how that is affecting markets here in tokyo. Well go to Ramin Mellegard for that. Good morning, ramin. Tell us what youre seeing over there. Good morning, ai. A lot of data there that you just went through. And markets here taking it pretty positively. Lets come to the opening levels here for the nikkei and the topix for july 1st, and you can see the nikkei and the broader topix up 0. 84 . A pretty positive. Of course, analysts looking at the outlook for the Tankan Business sentiment survey. Now, lets not forget june was quite a volatile month. The nikkei fell 9. 6 on the month and thats the biggest monthly fall since may 2012. And a week after brexit vote we have seen somewhat calmer markets as we now enter the third quarter. Overnight the bank of England Governor Mark kearney said that the bank would probably need to pump more stimulus into britains economy over the summer. He said the Economic Outlook has deteriorated after the brexit vote. Now, following his comments, londons ftse surged more than 2 actually hitting its highest level since august 2015 and paris cac 40 and the dax gaining on the screen. Looking at the u. S. Markets. Positive sentiment spilled over to wall street. The dow jones and the nasdaq rose for a Third Straight day. Both rising 1. 3 . The negative sentiment has eased on hopes for central bank accomodation. Of course, the latest that weve seen is from the bank op england. But many will be looking at the bank of japan and the Federal Reserve as well. Tell us about how the pound, the british pound is trading following kearneys comments that you mentioned and also whats happening with some other pairs today . Exactly. We have seen volatility in the pound sterling thaerks for sure. The pound against the dollar 1. 3339. Sterling fell 6 against the dollar. It neared its 31year low touched on monday. The dollar and the euro are up against the yen. Dollar yen right now top of the screen, 103. 08. Euro yen 1. 114. Now, emerging economies have also seen a bit of a rebound as fears of an imminent rate hike by the Federal Reserve are receding somewhat after the brexit vote. Thats helping to boost local currencies and stocks into indonesia, thailand and singapore. Today we may see some trading as markets in the u. S. Will be closed as many taking an early weekend for the Independence Day celebrations. Thats all from me. Back to you. All right, ramin, well touch base with you in a few hours time. Now, more and more people are making the switch to l. E. D. S, energyefficient lights are an obvious way to save money, so Product Developers never sit still. Theyre looking for ways to shine the light into a whole new space. Reporter a tokyo art gallery. You can hear music, but where are the speakers . The soothing sounds are coming from a vibrating l. E. D. Lamp. A tiny light and sound show beaming from above. Translator this functions as a lamp and as a speaker. I decided to use it because it doesnt stand out and distract from the works of art. Reporter a major electronicsmaker is setting the mood. It started selling the dual lamp speaker last month. A peek inside shows the speaker mounted in front of the l. E. D. That setup creates a problem. The speaker casts a shadow. Designers fix that by tweaking the cover. They found just the right thickness and angle to bend the light. The final result hardly any shadow. Users can choose from 192 colors and dim to 32 levels. Translator when it comes to audiovisual development, were working on products that do not draw attention and that fit in well with the surrounding space. Reporter conjuring sound from light is just one of the possibilities. This small Venture Company is working on l. E. D. Lamps that communicate. This l. E. D. Light is not just illuminating the room. Its doing another job that we cant see. Its transferring wireless information down to this computer and then back up to the light again. Just connect a usb adapter to a computer and youve got wire also internet fast enough to watch a video. Its called visible light communication. Heres the proof. Block the light and communication stops. The signal range is very tight. Within 120 degrees of the signal light. Its going to move. It stopped. Reporter that means less chance of data theft. Translator at present many use this light for security and factories use it to prevent precision measurements from malfunctioning due to radio waves. Reporter heres another application. In a product showroom, a customer approaches a display shelf. Holds a smartphone or tablet under the lamp to learn more information about the items. Setting aup smart lamp is a normal operation using a normal l. E. D. By developing new services and apps with lighting and Communication Technologies combined, we want is nonexist e reporter a new technology is taking shape promising to light up our lives in a very different way. John la due, nhk world, toke yok tokyo. Thats the latest on business. Ill leave you with a check on the markets. A hong kong bookseller says a power struggle behind the chinese leadership is behind his detention in china along with his colleagues. Former bookstore manager lam wingkee spoke with nhk. His detention on the mainland began in october, and he returned to hong kong in june. Four others related to the bookstore also disappeared last year. The shop sold titles critical of the Chinese Communist party. Lam said during his interrogation authorities showed him several books his store had been selling. He said they pressed him to identify the authors and Information Sources of titles criticizing inside stories about the administration of president xi jinping. Translator the authorities dont intend to force our bookstore to close but aim to contain the sources of information. If they knew the sources, they would crack down on them. Protests in hong kong have been growing ever since the detention of the booksellers came to light. Freedom of expression is guaranteed in hong kong under the one country, two systems policy. Friday marks the 19th anniversary of hong kongs return to china from britain. Local authorities will hold a ceremony to celebrate the reversion, but pro democracy civil activists are planning a massive demonstration. In less than two weeks an International Court will deliver a verdict on a territorial dispute between the philippines and china. China has been building runways, control towers and radar facilities on Artificial Islands in the South China Sea. Thats upset the philippines, vietnam and other claimants to the disputed islands. They suspect beijing is Building Military outposts. Chinas claim of jurisdiction over most of the South China Sea has led the philippines to take the case to court. They argue that the claim is baseless and invalid, according to international law. China says only the parties involved should resolve the issue through talks. The country has boycotted the Court Proceedings and says it will reject any ruling. Despite that tough outward stance, nhk has learned that beijing is considering a response in the event of an unfavorable ruling. Diplomatic sources say that more than 20 government officials and experts met in beijing in late march. The sources say a senior official of the state Oceanic Administration suggested that an unfavorable ruling was increasingly likely and called on others to cast away an optimistic illusion and make preparations. Oceanic Administration Officials and experts have proposed steps to establish chinese control of the area before a ruling comes out. One proposal was to build an Artificial Island in the scarborough shoal. Another was to take over the second thomas shoal in the spratly islands. The philippines effectively controls the shoal. Another suggestion was to establish a chinese air Defense Identification Zone in the South China Sea. The sources say a Senior Foreign Ministry official expressed concern that other parties including vietnam and indonesia may follow the philippines example and file for arbitration. An expert on Maritime Security says theres concern among leaders in beijing. Translator if the ruling is unfavorable for china, it is likely to cause fierce repercussions in public opinion. To mitigate such public sentiment, the Chinese Government may demonstrate that it will strengthen control over the region. The Chinese Government has been stepping up diplomatic efforts since april. Foreign minister held a meeting with his counterparts and chinas Foreign Ministry is calling on the philippines to solve the dispute through negotiations and call a halt to the Court Proceedings. The head of the selfdefense force is worried that the Chinese Military is stepping up activity around the sea of japan. More and more aircraft are flying towards japanese air pace. Air selfdefense force jets were scrambled more than 90 times between april and june. Thats over 80 more than the same period last year. Translator theres been an escalation of activity by the Chinese Military both at sea and in the air. And the range of these activities has been expanding. Kawano says theyve observed activities in the Senkaku Islands in the east china sea. The japanese government maintains that the islands are an inherent part of japans territory. The numbers scrambled against planes totaled 873 for the fiscal year that ended in march. 500 of those were carried out against chinese aircraft. A senior u. S. Marine said his country will boost its military presence in the pacific. He said commanders will form a new unit. Lieutenant general John Whistler said there will be 2,000 marines in the unit that will operate with the navys amphibious group. When those marines come from the continental United States, whether they come from hawaii, whether they come from the Unit Deployment Program marines in japan, all those details are being worked out. The idea is to create additional presence, particularly in southern asia. Whistler said that in the future a unit currently based in okinawa will operate mainly in northeast asia and a new unit will focus on the western pacific region. He said it will likely happen in two or three years. The u. S. Has stationed marines in Northern Australia since 2012 as part of its socalled pivot to the asia pacific region. It is designed to put pressure on china. It is time for a check of the weather. Emergency crews in many areas of the western United States are fighting massive wildfires. Meteorologist jonathan oh joins from us the latee. We are keeping an eye on the conditions that hammer the western portion of the United States. We see clouds from time to time along the rocky mountains, but its not enough to really suppress that really dry persistent pattern that has been creating these fires or helping to aid the fires as we move forward in time. Let me show you video coming out of idaho. It will give you an idea how massive these are. This is boise battling a wildfire early thursday morning. The blaze started shortly after midnight north of table rock. More than 300 hectares have been impacted and four structures have been destroyed. Residents in the area have been asked to leave but the evacuations are not mandatory at this time and there have been no immediate reports of injuries. We do have a couple of areas of moisture that may try to help with this particular situation. We have a low coming out of the north and west. That will bring some showers. But again, not a huge amount. Most of the focal point will be colorado rather than montana and idaho. Meanwhile, a low pressure system down through the south and west will continue to try to bring in moisture but a lot more drier weather and so the what is developing into the Desert Southwest monsoon bringing in that moisture may try to help with it. But still looking at the dry conditions in southern california. Were watching out for a couple of systems on the eastern side of the United States. One is a stationary system with alp area over the carolinas, thats going to bring a chance for afternoon scattered thunderstorms. Then towards the north. We do have a cold front moving in. We have warm air coming in from the south, cold air further to the north. And that particular setup will lead to the possibility of some strong thunderstorms. Look at some of these highs here. 21 in chicago. 23 in winnipeg and also toronto. This is very warm weather for this time of year. Were seeing rain down to d. C. With thunderstorms possible as we go throughout the day friday. Just be on the lookout for that. As we go through the july 4th weekend. Well see scattered showers d. C. And houston. Los angeles seeing some hazier conditions and some rain into honolulu. Meanwhile, we look at the forecast for europe, were seeing some very warm air due to a High Pressure system bringing temperatures up into the mid30s into the balkens, look out for that. Rain and thunderstorms with that air surging in and the trough that bring thunderstorms into warsaw and vienna and paris a chance for rain. High of 22 degrees. Wrapping things up with a look at east asia. I want to draw your attention to this band of clouds. Theres a low pressure in northern shanghai. This will bring a lot of rail. Were talking about the possibility of 200 millimeters of rain as we go just through the day on friday, that will dump a lot of moisture there. Be on the lookout for the possibility of some localized flash flooding as we go forward in time. That low will eventually approach the mountains of japan as we go through the weekend. Well see spotty showers, maybe thunderstorms as we go throughout saturday and sunday. For friday, were going to see some dry conditions. Waurl conditions as well. 20 in sendai, 30 in tokyo and over to kagoshima and kyushu getting a little bit of a break from the rains we had this week. We should see dry conditions as we go through friday. Hope you have a good day wherever you are. Heres your forecast. That wraps up this edition of nhk newsline. Im Catherine Kobayashi in tokyo. Thanks for joining us. Rita aspinwall on this edition of native report, we watch as glass artist jes durfee transforms simple glass rods into incredible works of art. Ernie stevens we attend a communitywide celebration of Indigenous Peoples day. Rita aspinwall and we interview dr. Bob powless, who helped found one of the First University indian studies programs in the United States. Ernie stevens we also learn about what we can do to lead healthier lives, and hear from our elders on this native report. Narrator production of native report is made possible by grants from the Shakopee Mdewakanton sioux community, the blandin foundation, and the Duluth Superior Area Community foundation. [music playing]