Japanese officials want to hold the summit without any conditions. But their chinese counterpart said japan should first recognize there is an issue of sovereignty over islands in the east china sea. Japan controls the Senkaku Islands. China and taiwan claim them. The japanese government maintains the islands are an inherent part of japans territory. It says there is no issue of sovereignty to be resolved. China also said it wants abe to state clearly that he wont make any more visits to yasukuni shrine. The shrine in tokyo honors japans war dead. Those remembered include leaders convicted of war crimes after world war ii. Prime minister abe will fly on sunday to join other World Leaders at the apec meeting in beijing. Japanese Officials Say they have been engaged in quiet negotiations with their chinese counterparts on how to improve bilateral ties. They released the document that lays out their fourpoint agreement. It says that both governments have affirmed they will uphold principl
Nuclear plant to meet stricter government requirements is now a step closer to going back online. The leaders of japan and china are likely to meet oneonone early next week. Government officials from both nations have agreed to arrange their meeting on the sidelines of the Asia Pacific Cooperation Forum in beijing. It would be the First Official summit between the two countries since may 2012. Prime minister shinzo abe has been seeking a meeting with chinese president xi jinping. And hes been laying down the groundwork for the talks. He sent a senior Government Official to china this week for coordination. The head of National Security secretariat met with the Chinese State counselor. Japanese officials want to hold the summit without any conditions. But the chinese counterpart said japan should first recognize theres an issue of sovereignty over islands in the east china sea. Japan controls the senkaku islands. China and taiwan claim them. The japanese government maintains the islands
Good morning. Oh, i know you can do better than that. Lets start again. Good morning all right. Now i know it is a good morning. Thank you so much. He said retired . What is that . As my mother said, no, you breathe your last breath, then you retire. Our theme for the program is dare to act. The theme for today is dare to lead. But we have all of these dares and i just want to take a second to speak about them because i want you to own them, at least own one. So its dare to act for the conference, dare to lead for this morning, dare to impact, dare to include, dare to engage, dare to innovate. Now heres one i love dare to transform. Got it . Dare to transform. Dare to improve. Dare to empower. And then, my work dare to educate and dare to create. So how many of these dares have you had as a part of your life . Think about it. I can run through the list and think about the hundred years that ive been alive and ive been daring all my life. What about you . I certainly hope that you will
Fall under the agencys jurisdiction. So often times requesters are making rather broad requests. Agencies are then faced with trying to figure out what it is and what in the world is it that the person actually wants. One way to deal with this we have talked about this for ages. It was ultimately codified in the foia amendments in 1996 was for the agency to come back to the requester and say, i dont understand what your request is asking for or this is really too complex and its too time consuming and if you are willing to narrow the request and here are some suggestions, we can handle the request more expeditiously for you. Thats basically the tradeoff for the agency is that the request gets narrow and more manageable and the bone thats being thrown to the requester is that they will respond to it more expeditiously. That often times still is not it doesnt happen in practice. But thats kind of where the statute is supposed to be. I have a friend who is a litigator in the National Secu
Children in some parts of japan are bidding farewell to their schools. Theyre closing down due to the shrinking population. Authorities and experts are looking for clues after a german jetliner crashed into the french alps. They fear all 100 people who were on board are dead. Theyre hoping information from the flight data recorder will reveal what happened. Nhk world reports. Reporter the plane was traveling from barcelona to dusseldorf on tuesday morning. The airbus a320 was operated by lufthansas budget carrier germanwings. 144 passengers and 6 crew members, were on board. About an hour into the flight the plane crashed into a mountainside. Police and firefighters used helicopters to search the area until sunset. The plane was flying at 38,000 feet when it lost altitude and rapidly descended for eight minutes. The aircraft lost contact with the control tower after it came to an altitude of 6,000 feet. For the time being we say its an accident. Theres nothing more that we can say righ