Gas prices makes it difficult to sustain that growth going forward. In the summit talks, abe will pledge to be support japanese firms investment in the country and help build its infrastructure. Japans defense minister general nakatani will visit vietnam early next month to meet his counterpart general phung quang thanh. They are expected to discuss chinas unilateral activities including major reclamation projects and the construction of military facilities. Vietnam is one of the parties involved in territorial disputes with china over the south china sea. Nakatani is likely to explain japanese security legislation enacted last month. The new laws allow japan to exercise the right to the collective selfdefense and expand the role of the countrys selfdefense forces. Relations between people in japan and china appear to be warming up. Most people who answered an opinion poll said their impressions of each other are negative but not as negative as last year. It was conducted bid a japanes
Here in japan its 7 00 p. M. On a friday. I am james tengan. Welcome to newsline. Here are the stories that were following this hour. U. S. Secretary ash cart can er has visited the waters in South China Sea. The German Government plans to speed up the screening of people seeking asylum in the country and deport those that fail to meet the criteria. Later we look at the Tokyo International Film Festival and giving them a place to take the unique places on life. U. S. Defense secretary visited and it came a week after a week destroy er was being built by china. Nhk has more. He has the field and theres a lot of concern about the chinese behavior in the region. The the captain of the uss that sailed close to the dispute also spoke to media on the aircraft carrier. It was shadowed for about ten days before approaching the reef. Chinese workers have been building the artificial islands and the land for more than a year. It shows a nearly run way and theyre building two other run ways this
Visiting a warrelated shrine that has been a source of tension with china and south korea. U. S. Lawmakers have passed a bill to avoid a debt default just hours before a thursday deadline. Democrats and republicans have been arguing for months over the countrys borrowing limit. But members of both ho of congress voted to raise the debt ceiling and reopen the government. The motion is adopted. Without objection, a motion to reconsider is laid upon the table. The republicans control the house of representatives. Many of them joined the democrats, voting to raise the debt ceiling. The government can now borrow additional funds for the next four months. Thats a shorter period of time than president barack obama had hoped for. The lawmakers also approved a stopgap budget to end the partial shutdown of Government Services that began two weeks ago. The white house instructed federal employees to return to work on thursday. The bill calls for setting up a panel to discuss deficit reduction ove
Some cities just before 3 00 a. M. Japan time. A 40 centimeter wave reached a port in iwaki prefecture and one in kuji port. A 30 centimeter wave was seen in ishinomaki. And a 20 sent mytory in the city in iwate prefecture. Officials say they lifted the tsunami advisory because sea level fluctuations became smaller. Tohoku Power Company observed a 55 centimeter tsunami just after 3 00 a. M. Japan time at a port near the plant in miyagi prefecture. Translator the tsunami advisory has been lifted. We think slight fluctuations in sea level will continue for about half a day. We want people on or near the coast to exercise caution. Officials have lifted a tsunami advisory for the countrys east coast. They issued that a few hours ago after a magnitude 7. 1 earthquake struck. The Prime Minister says its vital that the diet pass two bills. He was speaking in a Plenary Session of the lower house. He says a National Securit council would strengthen the command functions of the Prime Ministers o
Law enforceme lawmakers approved a bill to remove the debt ceiling. They could not agree on a spending bill so at the beginning of the month the government started laying off 800,000 employees. Now fair lowed staff at the white house and government offices have returned to work. And museums and monuments and memorials are opened again. Im personally glad that all the memorials are open for the tour guiding business and so that students can learn. More than 100 people lined up to get into the Smithsonian National air and space museum. Translator the exhibition was great. I came all the way to the u. S. To see this. Many Business People welcomed the deal to pay the governments bills over the next four months. Others are skeptical. I think it was forced and not well thought out but we got to a time crunch and needed to be done. I mean, around the world, our reputation is slowly dwindling. The lawmakers reached their compromise hours before a deadline that would see the government default