We are really excited to have them here. They know what is going to happen in this summit because everything is worked out. I dont know how much theyre going to share with us but i suspect it will be a good session. It will be a conversation led by Chris Johnstone who leads our japan program. So can i ask you for your very enthusiastic applause, welcome, ambassador yamada and ambassador emanuel. Thank you, doctor. Thank you for joining us. Thanks to all of you for being here today. I am Senior Advisor and japan chair. We will have a 30 minute or so conversation up here and try to open things up for a question or two at the end. So let me start. This is the First Official visit of a japanese Prime Minister to the white house since 2015. These visits are a big deal. I think this is only the fifth that the Biden Administration has done since it took office. Theyre a prime opportunity to showcase progress in the relationship and highlight the importance of the alliance. I would like to off
We are really excited to have them here. They know what is going to happen in this summit because everything is worked out. I dont know how much theyre going to share with us but i suspect it will be a good session. It will be a conversation led by Chris Johnstone who leads our japan program. So can i ask you for your very enthusiastic applause, welcome, ambassador yamada and ambassador emanuel. Thank you, doctor. Thank you for joining us. Thanks to all of you for being here today. I am Senior Advisor and japan chair. We will have a 30 minute or so conversation up here and try to open things up for a question or two at the end. So let me start. This is the First Official visit of a japanese Prime Minister to the white house since 2015. These visits are a big deal. I think this is only the fifth that the Biden Administration has done since it took office. Theyre a prime opportunity to showcase progress in the relationship and highlight the importance of the alliance. I would like to off
We are really excited to have them here. They know what is going to happen in this summit because everything is worked out. I dont know how much theyre going to share with us but i suspect it will be a good session. It will be a conversation led by Chris Johnstone who leads our japan program. So can i ask you for your very enthusiastic applause, welcome, ambassador yamada and ambassador emanuel. Thank you, doctor. Thank you for joining us. Thanks to all of you for being here today. I am Senior Advisor and japan chair. We will have a 30 minute or so conversation up here and try to open things up for a question or two at the end. So let me start. This is the First Official visit of a japanese Prime Minister to the white house since 2015. These visits are a big deal. I think this is only the fifth that the Biden Administration has done since it took office. Theyre a prime opportunity to showcase progress in the relationship and highlight the importance of the alliance. I would like to off
Including children. And well show you how some young people in yes or no japan are getting a helping hand to fight prejudice. Prodemocracy demonstrators in hong kong are turning up the pressure on authorities. They say if chief executive cy leung doesnt step down by thursday night theyll escalate demonstrations. Students and activists took to the streets late last month. More joined them this week. Theyre protesting chinas decision to change the choices voters get for the next election of the hong kong leader. A commentary in the communist partys daily newspaper calls demonstrations illegal and says the Chinese Government has full trust in hong kongs leader. Tv did not show the demonstrations. It showed people waving chinese flags and singing the national anthem. The Chinese Government is censoring foreign tv coverage of the protest. People watching nhk,bbc world and cnn saw their screens go blank. U. S. President barack obama brought up a protest with the foreign minister and urged ch
There is no reason for new yorkers to be alarmed. Officials say the doctor had been in the hospital with a fever. They say he was working for Doctors Without Borders in west africa, where the epidemic is spreading. They say the man is now in isolation at a hospital in new york city, designated for treating ebola patients. If it is confirmed the doctor has ebola, he will be the second person to develop symptoms in the u. S. After contracting the virus in west africa. Now, once again, Officials Say a doctor has tested positive for ebola. Well bring you more details on this developing story as they come in. Now, an increasing number of medical workers in countries outside of west africa have been falling sick with the ebola virus, as weve been reporting. Now, officials at the Japanese Health ministry are about to take steps to make sure medical institutions in japan safeguard their staff. The officials plan to call on medical institutions to confirm whether anyone who shows up with a feve