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Donald trump vows to put America First as president but his own partys convention highlighted division rather than unity. Yes, pokemon go has finally come home to japan. The augmented reality mobile game has gone viral in the u. S. And around the world. And now players in the country where pokemon first came to life have the opportunity to get their fix. Nhk worlds john ledoux went out to find out what people think of the game. Reporter instead of me trying to find them. I made it easy for them to connect with me. Reporter pokemon go has taken the world by storm. Players use their smartphone cameras and gps to interact with virtual monsters in locations. The release in japan was delayed to ensure enough server capacity. But it wasnt enough for everyone. Only one of these three High School Friends has been able to get the game. Some fans had difficulty accessing the app because of heavy demand. Another issue thats concerning people is safety. Now that the game has finally landed in pokemons country of origin, authorities are trying to prevent the same accidents that have been happening elsewhere. Theyre urging players to stay aware of their surroundings especially concerning tokyos density. Thereve been reports of accidents related to the game in other countries. So authorities here are urging people to exercise caution. Theyre warning against playing while walking or riding a bike. Still, the delays and warnings arent dampening most peoples enthusiasms. This tourist was relieved the game was released on his last day in he place pokemon was born. Id like to find some rare pokemon. Reporter Developers Say they hope the players will enjoy the game. Exploring the world around them and interacting with others. But they urge players to stay safe while theyre on their adventures. John ledoux, nhk world, tokyo. Syrians are using pokemon go to draw attention to how children are suffering in their war torn nation. People have posted pictures of pokemon characters on twitter. They also put up photos of children holding messages like, i am from syria come to save me. And do something to find me. They want the International Community to help young victims of war. A syrian designer posted images under the title syria go on facebook. One shows a first aid kit that pops up in front of the ruins of a building. The idea is to get people to send medicine and other aid. The designer says he wants people around the world to be more aware of how people in syria are suffering from the ravages of war. Donald trump has painted a grim picture of the state of the u. S. And vows to confront its threats. He spoke to thousands in cleveland accepting the republican nomination as president ial candidate. While laying out his plans, he reiterated his mantra of putting America First. Americanism, not globalism, will be our credo as long as we are led by politicians who will not put America First then we can be assured that other nations will not Treat America with respect the respect that we deserve. Assured that other n not Treat America with respect the respect that we deserve. Trump says crime has been on the rise under the Current Administration and he vowed to restore law and order in the country. At the same time he made his case against the Presumptive Democratic nominee who served under president obama as secretary of state. This is the legacy of Hillary Clinton. Death, destruction, terrorism, and weakness. But Hillary Clintons legacy does not have to be americas legacy. He also reiterated one of his most controversial proposals. We are going to build a great border wall to stop illegal immigration. To stop the gangs and the violence and to stop the drugs from pouring into our communities. Trump also highlighted his protectionist trade policies. Thursday was the conventions final day. The Democratic Convention is set for next week and the president ial election for november. Campaigning for the election will soon ramp up but trump may not be able to solely focus on fighting the democrats. The Republican Convention was meant to strengthen unity, instead it highlighted severe divisions within the party. Sara cook reports from cleveland. We will make America Great again god bless you and good night i love you. Reporter but behind the big show and warm welcome, a major question lingers. Can trump unite the party. Delegates protested the nomination process and tried to block trumps win. There were massive protests throughout the week outside the venue as well. Many prominent republicans including bush family skipped the convention. One of his rivals did show up but refused too endorse the nominee. Vote for candidates up and downwn the ticket who you trusto defend our freedom and to be faithful to the constitution. Reporter that led to anger and some say created further division. He deserved to be booed off the stage tonight because he was supposed to come here and unify and all he did was come here and divide. Reporter the entire trump family gathered to deliver speeches and show americans a more personal side of the candidates. But even that approach led to prproblems. You work hard for what you want in life. That your word is your bond and you do what you say. Reporter trumps wife melania gave an address that led to accusations of plagiarism. Some sections were virtually the same of parts of an old speech from the democratic first Lady Michelle obama. Campaign managers tried to focus on something they think can unite republicans attacking the Presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton. They invited survivors and family members of americans killed in 2012 during an attack on a diplomatic compound in libya. Clinton was secretary of state at the time and was widely crititicized. I blame Hillary Clinton personally for the death of my son. If Hillary Clinton cant give us the truth, why should we give her the presidency . Reporter the strategy of attacking the democrats could be an effective way to bring the republicans together. Trump certainly needs to unite the Republican Party because one of the most important things that a an analt looks at in terms of Election Outcomes is the strength of partisan support. He has to move into the september phase of the campaign with the united party behind him. Reporter despite trump trying to portray united fronts, its clear divisions remain. The Campaign Still seems anxious about how it can overcome its issues. The convention is over, but the real fight begins now. Sara cook, nhk world, cleveland. The view from the slopes of mt. Fuji is known to be breathtaking. That became literally true for thousands of friday as they tried to catch theirir breath oa grueling race up japans tallest peak. With the crack of a gun, more than 3,500 runners began their assault on the unforgiving course. Normally participants race along a 21 kilometer trail to the top. Rain during this years high elevation dash meant the finish line was set six kilometers short of the summit. Translator i really felt i was climbing japans highest mountain. As the altitude increased, my breath couldnt keep up. Translator its a shame about the weather. I hope to come again. Some of the runners gave up the fight. But the runners finished in a little over 77 minutes and 94 minutes respectively. Top financial officials from around the world will gather in china this weekend to discuss ways to keep the Global Economy on track. Gene otani has the details and all the other business headline. Finance ministers and the group of 20 economies will meet on saturday and sunday. They will focus on how to cope with possible risks following the brexit referendum. Ahead of the meeting, chinese premier spoke to reporters at a News Conference in beijing with the leaders of financial organizations. Translator china has room to take countermeasures even if the Global Economy faces new uncertainties and challengnges. He said china will step up fiscal and financialeasures to maintain stable Economic Growth in the risks emerge that threaten a Global Economic slowdown. The head of International Monetary fund d Christine Lagar said theyll look at increasing fiscal spending. Theyll also discuss progress in a structural reform a as well a debt held by businesses and Financial Institutions in emerging countries. Tokyo stocks fell on friday due to a stronger yen and fading hopes for a monetary stimulus from the bank of japan. Phoebe amoroso reports from the tokyo stock exchange. Investors were disappointed after boj chief kuroda said in a bbc interview he saw no need to use helicopter money. This dampened Risk Appetite and we saw traders buying the yen. The nikkei fell 1 . The topix ended up down 0. 89 . Exporters were hit hard by theh stronger yen. With a auto makers among the strugglers. Komatsu has signed a deal to buy rival joy global. Nintendo shares rose 0. 8 . Investor confidence faltered on friday. Theyre avoiding risk until they can better assess the economic situation. Theyll be watching the g20 meeting in china t this weekend. Phoebe amoroso at the tokyo stock exchange. Many other markets of the Asia Pacific Region joined the global fall on equity prices. The shanghai composite closed at 3,012. A report that has cast down on additional monetary easing dampened sentiment there. In indonesia, the jakarta composite ended down. Many analysts had expected a further cut. Hong kongs hang seng index declining by 0. 2 snapping a twoday gain. Singapore bucking the trend up nearly 0. 2 . Its been one month since the people voted to leave the european union. To get insight into where things are heading after brexit, nhk world spoke with jim rogers in singapore. Hes a high profile investor. Rogers bet on the decline years ago. He has been an active trader. We started by asking rogers for his take on the impact of the brexit vote on the asian region and the risks that lie ahead. Many markets seem to have recovered and stabilized from the initial brexit shock. But jim rogers thinks the uk should be prepared to deal with major disruptions. Before its over, were going to have a serious crisis in the uk. The uk has huge dedebt. The uk has a huge balance of trade deficit. Uk has a huge government deficit. And if scotland leaves, which they say they might, that takes a lot of the oil. Then you got to leave the oil behind. So england loses a lot of its income at that point. With that develops the city of london, the financial district will come under more and more pressure. The europeans are already saying were going to take our financial business away from london now. Because youre not part of the eu. Well, paris orr frankfurt or amsterdam or some place is going to get a lot of that business. The uk is going to be like portugal or poland. These were great countries once upon a time. These were great countries once upon a time. Rogers believes the effect of the brexit vote may not be immediately felt in asia. But he protects hitting over the region through financial channels. Its not going to have much direct effect because most Asian Countries dont trade that much with the uk now. But when the uk financial problems start hitting all of us, then that has a snow ball effect. In 2007 or so, iceland went bankrupt. It was a snowball. The next thing you know there was ireland and the u. S. And the next thing you know we were in a terrible financial situation. Reporter rogers says the Global Economy is dependent on unprecedented monetary easing from Central Banks around the world. And he believes the side effects could leave the world reeling. Im very pessimistic on whats going to happen in the world. Asia, europe, america, these Central Banks have been printing money for eight years now at least. Interest rates have gone to nothing. This has never happened in World History that youve had all the major Central Banks, japan, europe, britain, america, printing huge amounts of money driving Interest Rates to absurd artificial levels. Its going to end. And when it ends, were going to pay a very serious price. Reporter asia may be thousands of kilometers away from london and brussels, but the region is not immune to repercussions. Rogers expects investors will be dealing with a challenging set of risks in the coming months and possibly years. Nhk world, singapore. Economists at Japans Cabinet Office are forecasting that the countrys primary balance for 2018 will worsen due to a delay of the consumption tax hike. Nhk has learned that the primary deficit is calculated to expand to 1. 9 of the countrys gdp. It will worsen from 0. 2 from an earlier estimate. This will make it difficult to limit the primary deficit to 1 in fiscal 2018. The calculation reflects the shinzo abes decision to delay the consumption tax by 2 1 2 years. They want to hike the levy from 8 to 10 . Exceeds its revenue. Heres a look at some of the other stories were following. Officials at Mitsubishi Motors are planning to temporaririly tranansfer some of the Company Employees to nisissan motors starting next month. The two firms agreed on a capital tieup in may. Mitsubishi will dispatch 200 workers to work at a plant of a nissan subsidiary six months to one year. Its aimed at helping mitsubishi secure jobs. The company was forced to scale back production because of the fallout from the firms fuel efficiency data scandal. The Japan Business federation has calledd for majo economic stimulus and bold dereregulation to create new industries. The chairman told Business Leaders at the summer forum that japan is at a crucial stage to end deflation and reviet hawatae economy. Thats a look at business news. Ill leave you with the markets. Nhk newsline comes to you live from tokyo where its overcast and unusually cool for this time of year. The current temperature reading is 23 degrees celsius or 73 degrees fahrenheit. For the World Weather outlook, heres jonathan oh starting out with the u. S. Hello. We are looking at least another day of very warm weather. Whats happening in the United States especially over the cecentral area is the jet strea which is the fast moving area moving along the northern periphery this time to have year is lifting further up. Thats a line for warm air to surge in from the sosouth. Thats creating very hot conditions. Temperature highs on thursday reach up near 40 degrees in portions of the dakotas. Rapid cicity 38. 9 degrees. Austin saw a high of 38. 3 degrees. Thats warm even more people in texas. But when you look to the dakotas, its very hot to see highs near 40. And on top of that, there is moisture in the area creating higher levels of humidity which means heat index values are pushing past the 40 degree mark. Its very hot. We are looking at another day of this weather pattern. We have a couple areas of High Pressure thats going to help usher moisture towards the north. So we may deal with thunderstorms near the canadian u. S. Border. Further to the south, were dealing with the possibilityty more hot weather. Just be on the lookout for that. Also thunderstorms into the grgreat lakakes and some instaby ininto the carolininas may brine possibility of an afternoon shower or thunderstorm. Looking at the forecast for friday, notice highs anywhere from 35 in d. C. To 34 in atlanta. And 39 in oklahoma city. Take carare if yououre going t outside for a prolonged period of time. Chicago and denver also looking at hot weather with thunderstorms. And the heat continues into the weekend. Toronto, wichita, phoenix and death valley looking at warm temperatures. From the 30s to near 50 degrees through the weekend. As we look over the pacific ocean, were looking at the Tropical Storm darby. The track is expected to take this right along the big island in hawaii as we go throughout the weekend. So saturday toto sunday. Tropical storm w watch is in place. Were looking at Tropical Storm force winds on top of flash floodings and very large surf. Be on the lookout for this as we go forward in time. Honolulu may not get the central area of pressure right over it, but still windy and heavy rain conditions possible into sunday and other portions of hawaii through the weekend. As you look at the forecast for east asia, we are finally seeing a drying period for portions of japan, meanwhile a low pressure system thats now moving into mongolia has been bringing moisture i into places like beijing in china. Because of the heavy rainfall that has already fallen earlier this week, additional rainfall is going to be a bit of a problem. Little warm in tokyo. Coming up with a high of 27 degrees. 29 in beijing. All looking at wet weather because of that low and hot weather continues further to the south. We are looking at temperatures to be a little bit cooler relatively speaking for average temperatures in tokyo. Naha v very warm into the weeke. I do wanant to wrap up with a lk at the middle east. Look at this. Temperatures exceeding 50 degrees for highs and were looking at hot conditions continuing into the weekend. Hope you have a good day wherever you are, heres your extended outlook. Tourism officials are adding more appeal to one of japans most iconic cities. Theyve opened up the kyoto state guest house year round in a bid to attract more foreign visitors. Until recently the facility was only open to the public for about ten days in the summer. And even then access was granted through a lottery. Enthusiastic people lined up thursday even before the gates opened. Many had made advanced bookings online. The facility is japans second state guest house for welcoming foreign dignitaries. It was designed with traditional japanese architecture. Visitors flocked to one of the facilitys highlights called the room of the evevening glolow yubaenoma. It depicts a mountain sunset. Translator i wanted to see this at least once in my life. So im thrilled to view it so closely. Kyotos imperial palace is also due to open to the public year round starting next week. Good news for tourists visiting the city. Im james tengan. Thanks for watching this edition of nhkbq at the end of this month to complement the operational availability of Security Forces across the country, we will up lament these Human Resources we will supplement these Human Resources by calling on army reservist, who will be able to provide support. I have called upon young people to provide support in the form of Civic Service or joining the Police Services because we must

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