To and from five specific prefectures including tokyo where the number of infections remained relatively high. The government is also releasing an app designed to notify user who is come into close contact with someone confirmed infected with the virus. The app is called covid19 contact confirming. It will record encrypted data of users when they come within a certain distance of each other. If a user tests positive for the virus, they register their information. People with the app who spend at least 15 minutes within about one meter of them will be identified. The app deletes contact data after 14 days. It also does not collect phone numbers, location data, or other information that could identify its users. The government says it can better protect user privacy than Similar Software introduced abroad. Translator this will be an important tool to protect lives. I hope many people will install it. The app was developed under the supervision of the Health Ministry with the goal of prev
We will hear from japanese epidemics at the center for strategic and international studies. Good afternoon. Thanks for joining us. I am mike green and a professor at georgetown, we are delighted to have all of you join us in discussion over the next two hours with four of japans rising academic thinkers on Foreign Policy and economic affairs. This is the seventh cohort we have invited under a program called strategic japan. Eight years ago we discussed with the Prime Ministers Office how to expand Strategic Thinking dialogue, planning between the us and japan. One thing to think about which was new for japan was the need to go beyond the traditional bureaucratic sources and to tap into the growing expertise among japans academic experts on issues that affect foreignpolicy and to bring more academics into the tent in japan and expand the dialogue with the us and to make sure japanese scholars who are making an impact in japan are sharing their ideas with the us, getting reactions and re
President trump is in the uk meeting allies at a nato summit in london this week. The labour leader, jeremy corbyn, has welcomed the us president with a letter, demanding that he will not push medicine prices up through a post brexit trade deal. Dominating trumps agenda, though, are threats posed by china, including its dominance of 56 telecoms networks. America has warned its allies against using equipment made by chinas huawei, saying the kit could be used by beijing for spying. These concerns stem from a chinese law that requires Domestic Companies to co operate with the government on security matters. Critics saying that this law could compel huawei to be a vehicle for spying. The Company Denies the allegations made by washington. Meanwhile, germanys chancellor Angela Merkel has also sounded a warning, saying europe a key part of nato needs to have a unified policy on the rollout of the next generation sg networks to address espionage concerns. Mike weston is director at advisory s
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Minutes. Good morning. I call this meeting in the Senate Committee on agriculture forestry to order. The ambassador doud, mckinney and johansen we are happy to have you back again for the committee to discuss the need for certainty and our Global Agriculture markets. International trade policies and their impacts on the United States agricultural economy. Has been a topic of great interest over the last few years. And more particularly the last few months. In fact, it is the second time in the last year we are hearing about the efforts being made at the office of the United States trade representative and the department of agriculture. I hope eventually it will result in a longterm, reliable markets for the United States agriculture. A great deal has happened in the nine months since you all appeared before this committee perhaps the most significantly to our members was the successful passage and enactment of the 2018 farm bill. With the help of everybody here. Much like the negotiati