Missile. The government says its special task force on the north korean situation is doing analysis at the Prime Ministers office. Well bring you more information as it becomes available. On to other stories now. The japanese Prime Minister will soon reshuffle his cabinets, the lineups will be announced on wednesday afternoon, but nhk has already learned most of the changes from various sources, abe is expected to appoint the woman as the defense chairman. She will be the second woman to assume the post following the n new lly elected government. According to sources some of abes team ministers will be staying put to maintain the basis of his government. Those include the foreign minister and the chief cabinet secretary. The Prime Minister is also changing party executives. Abe is expected to appoint the new secretary general. The new General Council chairman and the new policy Research Council chairman. After the new cabinet is announced, members will attend a ceremony at the imperial
That north korea has fired a missile. The government says its special task force on the north korean situation is doing analysis at the Prime Ministers office. Well bring you more information as it becomes available. On to other stories now. The japanese prime ministe will on reshfle his cabinets, e lineups will benced onweesy ters already learned most of the changes from various sources, abe is expected to appoint the woman as the defense chairman. She will be the second woman to assume the post following the n new lly elected government. According to sources some of abes team ministers will be staying put to maintain the basis of his government. Those include the foreign minister and the chief cabinet secretary. The Prime Minister is also changing party executives. Abe is expected to appoint the new secretary general. The new General Council chairman and the new policy Research Council chairman. After the new cabinet is announced, members will attend a ceremony at the imperial palace
Koike was given a warm welcome Tuesday Morning as she visited the metropolitan government for the first time as governor. Shes the first woman to administer japans capital. In her first address to her staff, she referred to the political funds scandals her predecessorsrs were involved in. She instructed them to work hard to regain the public trust in the government. And in a News Conference she pledged to fulfill her promise to drastically reform tokyo. Translator we will scrutinize efficiency of work, organization, own budget of the government. And affiliated bodies as well. And we will report the results to citizens. We will reorganize the system to citizens first. She also touched on the budget for the 2020 games which is expected to balloon from the initial plan. She said she plans to set up a panel of experts to study whether its reasonable or not and release the interim report next month. Its been one week since japans worst mass killing in decades. An attack on a care home for p
Damaged by the earthquake and myanmar soldiers are clearing ththe debris now. At the top of the tower being down here. The ancient city of bagan is about 30 kilometers away from the quake center. The quake caused 185 pagodas to partially collapse. No, no, no r reporter one is the templ which was built in the 12th century and is known for its beautiful paintings. The quake knocked off the top part of the temple. Its now off limits due to the risk of further damage if aftershocks strike. Very scary. Yeah. We was Drinking Coffee and we hid under the tables. The whole building started to shake. Nobody knew what was happening. Then the staff came out and everybody got under the tables. Reporter myanmars government has been campaigning to have bagan added to this list of sites. Concerns are growing o over h h much it may cost to repair the structures here. And the impact on the tourism industry. Daisuke iijima. In italy they are still looking for survivors. Rescuers combing through debris in
Fifa officials this week for allegedly taking kickbacks from media firms. Blatter has come under fire for not cleaning up the organizations culture. A volcano on an island in southern japan has erupted. Officials with the Meteorological Agency described the explosion on kuchinoerabu island as powerful. Theyve issued the highest level warning and evacuated all the residents. Nhk worlds ayaka hatta has more. Reporter mount kuchinerabu erupted a little before 10 00 a. M. Friday local time. It sent smoke 9,000 meters into the air. About 140 people live on the island. One resident says he heard a huge explosion when the volcano erupted. Observers say rapid flows of gases and rocks have reached the coast. Translator more strong and large scale explosions could happen. We want people in areas where paraclastic flows are possible to follow directions issued by local authorities, including evacuation orders. Reporter kuchinoerabu is a small island located in kagoshima prefecture. Its about 15 k