here in japan it's 7:00 p.m. on a wednesday. i'm james tengan in tokyo. welcome to nhk "newsline." more information is emerging about japan's worst mass killing in decades. police are detailing the suspect and the event. police have begun searching the home of suspect satoshi uematsu

for clues as to why he went on the stabbing attack. it took place at a facility for those with disabilities. he turned himself into the police. he was arrested and sent to the prosecutors. he had worked at the facility for three years before becoming unemployed in february. investigators say while uematsu is saying he wanted disabled people to disappear, he's also saying he wants to apologize to the victims' families. police have found two more knives stained with blood at the facility. they believe uematsu used them together with three other knives that he was carrying when he was arrested. they also say he tied two workers at the facility to handrails with zip ties during the attack. the big question being asked is why authorities were unable to prevent the rampage from happening. the local governor says information that forewarned of the attack was not shared properly.

the first warning came months ago. uematsu wrote a letter to the speaker of japan's lower house in february. it detailed a plan to attack the care home at night and tie staff members with zip ties. that's precisely what happened during the attack. he also told colleagues at the facility that he thought people with severe disabilities should be euthanized. those comments led officials to have him committed to a hospital. but he was released 12 days later. after a doctor examined him and decided he was no longer a threat to others. following his discharge, the care home installed more than a dozen security cameras based on police advice. kanagawa prefecture oversees the facility. the governor says none of that information was shared with him. >> translator: we believe there have been problems in the way

authorities share information. we will cooperate with the authorities' concern so this never happens again. we will verify the matter thoroughly. >> holding him any longer would have created a human trafficking issue. they wants to consult on how best to deal with the situation. reactions are emerging from a nation in shock. people have gathered at the care facility in sagamihara. they're offering prayers and flowers. >> translator: i have a disability. it's an intellectual disability. so this attack really affected me. i'm afraid that this incident may lead to discrimination against people with intellectual

disabilities. >> an organization of people with intellectual disabilities and their families called new inclusion japan issued an urgent statement. it read, we are shocked by the killing of vulnerable people with disabilities. we are extremely shaken with sadness and outrage. the statement called the crime heinous and unforgivable. the document also touched on the suspect's disrespect towards those with disabilities. it urged people that each and every life is invaluable. a chinese court has slapped prison terms on two hong kong media professionals. their magazines are known for reporting on rifts within the leadership of china's ruling party. the sentences have fueled deep concerns in hong kong as people fear freedom of speech is under threat. publisher wang jen ming and the

other man was arrested. schengen sentenced them to two years. they were charged with an illegal business. selling magazines. work criticizing the communist party have been detained in mainland china. hillary clinton has made history in the u.s. she's the first woman to be nominated for a political party. vermont voted last and her primary rival bernie sanders helped make it official. >> i move that hillary clinton be selected as the nominee of

the democratic party for president of the united states. >> emotions in the crowd ran high as sanders attempted to bring the party together. >> senator sanders has moved in the spirit of unity to suspend the rules -- to suspend the rules and nominate hillary clinton by acclimation as the presidential candidate of the democratic party. >> clinton will formally accept the nomination on thursday. she appeared on a live video feed from new york. >> a and i can't believe we jus put the biggest crack in that glass ceiling yet. >> and her husband made a personal case for her candidacy. >> she's a natural leader. she's a good organizer. and she's the best darn change maker i ever met in my entire life.

>> hillary clinton will face off against republican nominee donald trump in the presidential election in november. with just over a week before the games begin, dozens of russian athletes have been ruled out from competing in the rio de janeiro olympics. global sports federations are analyzing the athletes' records amid evidence of a russian state-sponsored doping program. the investigations come after a decision by the international olympic committee on sunday. it said that none of russia's nearly 400 athletes will be allowed to play unless they're cleared. 35 have been banned since then. on top of over 60 track and field competitors who are already disqualified. the world rowing body has announced just six of the country's 28 rowers meet the criteria. it said it based its decision on independent testing. international federations for swimming, canoeing, and modern

pentathlon have ruled out 13 others. they incnclude alexander jishen. and yulia elmova. on the other hand eight other federations sasaid they are goi to allow russians to compete. they include judo, sailing. tae kwon do federations are expected to announce shortly. the japanese government will spend hundreds of billions of dollars to revive the economy. gene otani joins us with the details and other business headlines. >> prime minister shinzo abe has announced the scale of the government's new economic stimulus plan. he says the draft packagege wil exceed 28 trillion yen or about $265 billion.

>> translator: this package is an investment in the future. we want to give a strong b boos to expanding fields such as agriculture and tourism. we're also planning for a brighter future by offering more support for nurseries and aged care. measures such as these will allow more people to participate in society. >> abe made the announcement during an economic policy speech he gave in kyushu. he said the measures will include public spending of more than 13 trillion yen or $123 billion. low interest loans by the government and financial institutions will form part of the package. abe says the measures will be compiled next week. checking the markets. news of the economic stimulus lifted the nikkei ending three straight days of losses. here are the details. >> investors bought a broad range of shares as there was a

lift of the average. the nikkei added 1.7% to close at 16,664 reversing declines from the previous day. the broader topix rose 1.1%. on to currency markets, the dollar rebounded hitting the mid 106 yen level at one stage. the currency retreated on the fiscal stimulus and speculation of monetary easing from the bank of japan. the drop in the yen helped export oriented shares where corporate earnings also led to big moves. nissan motor gained nearly 5% while both alps electric and murata manufacturing gained 5%. got a boost from better than expected earnings at apple. and kem shin-etsu chemical rose 14%. now the focus will be on how asian markets react to the outcome of the federal reserve

policy meeting. i'm giang nguyen. starting off with china, the shanghai composite down by almost 2% closing at 2,992. report that the country's security authority would tighten restrictions on wealth management projects dragged down the index. the jakarta index closing at 5,274. lifted by news of cabinet reshuffles. many investors remain cautious before the fed's decision. seoul's kospi inched lower by 0.11%. hong kong gained by a fraction there, 0.4%. members of a ministry have decided a rise in minimum wage. set at 822 yen an hour. that's nearly $8.

the increase is 24 yen an h hou or about 22 cents. locals are expected to make their own decisions by fall based on the national standard. the minimum hourly wage -- the minimum hourly average wage has been increasing in over a decade. shinzo abe wants it eventually to reach 1,000 yen or nearly $10 an hour. here's a look at some of the latest earnings reports by some major japanese companies. game maker nintendo has posted a net loss of $232 million for the april through june quarter. it's a major stake holder in the smartphone app pokemon go. executives have kept unchanged their net profit forecast for this fiscal year at around $330 million. they say pokemon go was developed by a u.s. company and the impact on earnings will be limited. nissan motor posted a net profit

from april of june period of $1.3 billion. that's down more than 10% from the previous year. executives say the stronger yen hit vehicle exports. they also had sluggish selling following a fuel scandal. executives at messangng app l le have reporteted a bigig spike i earnings. made a net profit of $24 m milln for the first half of this year. line m made i its initial publi offering two weeks ago in both japan and the u.s. the figure is in sharp contrast to last year when it posted a net loss. they attribute it to a big rise in advertising. working at home. it sounds like a great idea, but anyone with young children will tell you staying focused on the job can be difficult. our next story looks at a new service in japan that's offering working mothers another option. >> reporter: it looks like a trendy cafe.

but this room is a shared office. the clients are all freelance professionals. translators, accountants. it's the perfect setting to get some work done. downstairs the noise level is a little higher. this is where their children play. three certified nursery staff are on hanan t to ensure the ki don't disturb their mothers. >> translator: this is very helpful. the best thing is we can see what our children are doing. >> translator: when my child starts crying at home, i have to drop what i'm doing. an environment where i can concentrate on something is very important. >> reporter: these days more fathers in japan are helping out at home, but they rarely take paternity leave. a shortage of child care centers makes things even harder for

mothers who want to work. shiro ichihara has a 20-month-old daughter. every morning she the drops her daughter at a care facility. then she goes downstairs and starts working in a shared office just one floor below. ichihara edits a website. she spends the morning focused on her work. at the computer or in meetings. then it's lunch with her daughter and other people using the office. the rest of the day is free time with her child. that routine is a far cry from her work at a lararge companany. ichihara used to work from 9:00 in the morning to late at night. she now earns less money, but she says her new life pays off in other ways. >> translator: our lifestyle has changed dramatically. i can spend time with my child while working. and i form new relationships with others. all of them have positive

effects on me. >> reporter: the office managers say they are meeting a need. offefering a service that gives mothers a new way to work. >> translator: mothers usually have to choose from one of two options. leaving their children at day care centers and working hard or quitting jobs and rearing children at home. but we thought doing both is possible. we believeve we can offer mothe a new option. >> reporter: share offices won't meet the need for all mothers, but for some it strike this right balance between n work an parenting. >> that's it for business news. i'm going to leave you with the markets.

japan's nuclear regulators say they won't change the formula they use for calculating ground movements in projected earthquakes. it's in response to recent questions about their methods. last month a former nuclear regulatory commissioner questioned their effectiveness at a plant in central japan. they are in the process of inspecting reactors there for possible restart. they concluded it wasn't trustworthy. so they decided to stick with their current method. they say it takes enough risk factors into consideration.

nra chairman says they will use it until new scientific findings emerge. possible earthquake effects are a key factor in screening whether reactors meet new requirements introduced since the fukushima accident in 2011. pokemon go has become a global phenomenon. but managers at many public and private facilities around japan are telling the developers of the augmented reality game that they don't want to play along. officials at several japanese railway companies are worried that players absorbed in the game will bump into others or fall off platforms. they have asked the developer to exclude their properties from the game. but many of the characters have appeared despite the promises to keep them away. in hir show mee and nagasaki, directors of the peace parks are

also saying no go. they say those locations are dedicated to the souls of the victims and should be off limits to pokemon characters. tokyo electric power company has asked the developer to exclude the three nuclear plants from the game including the crippled fukushima daiichi compound. the u.s. state of ohio,, teens wandered into the parking lot of a nuclear plant. tepco has instructed its employees and contractors not to play the game at any of its plants. the supreme court has also issued a request to the developer that the 486 courts across japan be excluded. it says courts should only be used by people on official business. a woman on a mission to defeat world hunger is with the

u.n. food and agricultural department. >> thank you so very much for joining us. let me start by asking you about the current situation of food security in asia. what is the outlook? >> if you look at it from absolute numbers, asia, asia pacific region has perhaps the largest number of hungry and undernourished people in the world. talking about close to 795 millioion people still beieing hungry in this world. 490 million are in asia pacific region. so we have a lot of work to do in the region. >> how is climate change affecting food security in asia? >> you know, this 2015-16 has

been pretty hectic here because of the el nino. if you look at the last hundred years we have never had any el nino phenomenon that is so vast in term of its impact. let's take the case of fiji. fiji which had some time in march/april this year a category 5 cyclone. as a result it has had hugee crp damage and livelihoods impacted. $61 million for a small country like that. amamong the m mekong countries, every one of them have been impacted in one way or the other. vietnam alone, 83% of the country was affected because of the drought situation. 18 provinces were declared drought and it also had some serious salt water intrusion that caused emergency at different levels.

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hang me. k "wsline" comes t y live fro tokyo. let's rnur atttiono world ather th sayakmori o tellss about e deadly andcorching conditis on the other si of thpacific. >> yes. 3,000 firefighters a are battli the blaze.e. that is occurring near santa clarita. strong winds and high temperaturures are worsening th situatation. let's go to some image coming out of the area. crews battling wildfires were blasted with another day of hot weather in southern california tuesday. temperatures were averaging around 39 degrees celsius during the afternoon and low humidity made the situation more difficult. one person was found dead over the weekend. as many as 30,000 peoplple have been forced to evacuate due to the fire. most residents were given the all clear to return to their homes monday. so to put out the fire, we need lower temperatures and also rainy weather. but as you can see, no rain is expected this week.

and temperatures remain on the hot side. death valley could see 50 degrees, extremely high temperatures will continue throughout this week. now across the opposite side of the united states, it's been raining and there's a low pressure sysm in front bringing heavy rainfall l and ao ththe risks for thunderstorms. now temperatures are still on the hot side over the east. 34 in washington, d.c. with high humidity. 34 degrees in new york city with plenty of sunshine on your wednesday. across the northwest it's quite gorgeousus. 24 degrerees in vancouver and 2 degrees in seattle with plenty of sunshine.e. now let's go to the middle east. now, last week we talked about quitite high temperatures.. kuwait had a a high of 54.0 degrees on thursday. this is the highest ever in the

eastern hemisphere or asia. the current record holder is death valley, california, where the temperature rose to 56.7 degrees. this is the hottest area in the world so you'll see the highs into the mid to upper 40s into the weekend. let's go to asia then. the system made landfall last night as a tropical storm. still packing winds of 83 kilometers per hour. it is now heading towards vietnam. it is expected to hit the north of vietnam by tonight or early tomorrow morning as a tropical storm. if it does so, it's going to be the first tropical storm to hit vietnanam of the year. now, this systetem could cause some heavy rainfall. probably in additition of 200 millimeters. windnds will be strong as weweld waves are going to be quite high. please be prepared for the storm. now, across japan, scattered heavy rain is falling with a

record high -- record heaviest rainfall across central portions of japan over 240 millimeters of rain. as we go into friday, more heavy rain is expected for hokkaido. there's a front moving into the area. we're expecting heavyvy rainfal up to 200 millimeters of rainfall. that's quite a lot for hokkaido. so watch out for stormy conditions. now, across tokyo, we are looking at sunny weather to prevail as we go into next week. so we can finally say good-bye to the rainy weather in tokyo. but rainy weather in sapporo into the weekend. all right. here's your extended forecast.

we'll have more updates for you at the top of the hour on "newsroom tokyo." in the

>> hello, and welcome to the program. hollande meets with religious leaders. the government discussing stepped up security. one of the attackers has been identified -- he was wearing an electronic surveillance tag. witnesses described the teenager as troubled. hillary clinton makes history, officially becoming the