Digitalization. Translator my cabinet is ready to serve the people. We will try to deliver tangible results and live up to their expectations. Sugas cabinet started work on thursday, one day after the longtime chief cabinet secretary became japans 99th prime minister. He met with new ministers who are in charge of key policies. Administrative reform m ministe kono taro has launched a new web page to complain about government regulations. Translator i have already received about 7 emails. Im afraid the suggestion box is about to explode. Those messagess include specifi requests for regulatory reform, which i find reasonable. Im convinced its a worth while effofort. Suga also met witith digigit transformation minister takuya. He said hes been instrucucted speeee up the process to createa neww Government Agency in charg of digitalization. He said he plans to prepare relalated to bills to be sububmd to the diett session starting i january, aiming to set up the new agency before march 2022.
Migrants and turkey criticizes the response to the refugee crisis. Fresh face. Japan students and parents attend University Entrance ceremonies with hope and concern. U. S. Researchers say they have detected suspicious activity at a north Korean Nuclear facility. They have zeroed in on a Laboratory Complex used to produce plutonium, the material used in nuclear bombs. The researchers at Johns Hopkins university released what they say are recent satellite images of the complex. They say in recent weeks exhaust plumes were detected from a thermal plant used to reheat the main plutonium reprocessing lab. The plumes may indicate significant activity is or will be under way in the lab. It remains unclear what that activity is. The top u. S. Intelligence official warned in february that north korea could start extracting plutonium at the complex. James clapper said it could happen in a matter of weeks or months. Under an agreement in 2007, north korea disabled the reactor in exchange for int
Aung san suu kyi on her election victory and promised a smooth transfer of power. The new administration will be sworn in at the end of march next year, ending decades of rule by the mill tru or a militarybacked government. The military will, however, retain considerable unfluns over the countrys politics. The constitution allocates it a quart he of parliamentary seats, getting it veto power over constitutional change and the head of the military can pick the ministers of defense, home affairs and border affairs. Aung san suu kyi met military chief who said they had a fruitful discussion. Japanese officials are calculating how much tax theyll be able to collect for the current fiscal year that ends in march. Gene otani has the details on that and a wrapup of other business headlines. Thanks, james. The japanese government is likely to earn far more than it forecast. Officials say tax revenue will exceed a projection made this january by more than 1. 5 trillion yen, over 12 billion. Tot