here in japan it's :00 p.m. and welcome to nhk "newsline." we star off with a quick look at some stories we're following. strengthening ties -- japanese prime minister shinzo abe is preparing for a meeting with donald trump. catering to tourists -- some people in japan's tourism industry are turning to wi-fi

data to better understand the needs of foreign visitors. and we meet one of the most promising young wrestlers ahead of this year's grand sumo tournament. world leaders are looking at america's new president-elect and wondering what a donald trump white house will mean for them. prime minister shinzo abe is no exception. he's sending a special adviser to the u.s. next week. terp trp i want to make the visit a fruitful one to lay the groundwork for a meeting between abe and trump. >> high on the list for discussion, japan's attempt to salvage the partnership for the tpp. japan's foreign minister said he's reaching out to the new administration to keep the deal on the rails.

>> translator: the government aims for an early approval of the tpp bills in the diet to reap the benefits from the deal as soon as possible. i will continue urging all member countries, including the u.s. to approve the deal. >> kishida says he wants to convey the significance of the security alliance between the two nations to the new administration. in washington, president-elect trump has met with key figure in the republican mainstream in an apparent bid to rebuild bridges burned. trump met with house speaker paul ryan. relations had been strained after trump made lewd comments about women and ryan refused to defend him. but the house speaker said he's ready to work with trump. >> we had a fantastic meeting about getting to work, rolling up our sleeves and going to work for the american people. donald trump had one of the most impressive victories we've ever seen and we're going to turn that victory into progress for

american people. >> it can't start fast enough. and whether it's health care or immigration, so many different things, we'll be working on them very rapidly. i think we'll be putting things up pretty quickly. >> trump walked the halls of congress with senate majority leader mitch mcconnell. the republican party retained control in both the house and the senate in the election. trump is trying to build good relations with the republican-controlled congress to insure smooth sailing for his administration. business news, markets have been volatile this week since the election of donald trump, we go to gene otani from our business desk for the details on that and other biz news. >> tokyo stokts r s >> tokyo stokts rtock markets r. but the rally seems to have lost some steam. the nikkei average moved in a tight range on friday afternoon, our business reporter reports

from the tokyo stock exchange. >> the benchmark index opened friday morning with strong upward momentum. but profit-taking kicked in after share prices touched a nine-month high. the nikkei 225 added 0.18%, the broader topix rose 1.4%. apart from that dip on wednesday, the nikkei had a solid week, adding 2.8%. the index logged the strongest weekly gain in ten weeks. the dollar held on to gains after nearing the 107-yen handle during tokyo trading, a solid recovery from the lower 101-yen level on wednesday. the stronger dollar was held by higher yields on u.s. treasury notes. insurance companies like daiichi life holdings and nomura showed strong gains so a lot has

changed since wednesday and investors are waiting to is he how donald trump will translate his platform into policies. but there's a lot of uncertainty out there keeping investors cautious for now. the trump victory caused volatility in other boreses across the asia-pacific region. many benchmark retreated after thursday's rally. hong kong's hang seng down by 1.35%. shares of the philippines plunging by 2.9%. indonesian shares tumbled as we can see 4.5231 for the closing number, many investors worried about capital outflow. but shares in mainland china extended gains to a second day. here's a long at the shanghai composite up by .8%, 3196, a ten-month high. resource shares continued rallying on hopes of more exports to the u.s.

japanese corporations in the united states have expressed hope that president-elect donald trump will continue business as usual. the japan chamber of commerce and industry of new york on thursday hosted its annual dinner in the city. about 900 people, including business people from both countries attended. the chamber's president takahashi gave the opening speech. >> a new u.s. president made a victory declaration right here. whether you are one of the supporters of him or not, we are sharing the flavor of victory here. >> other speakers at the event didn't refer to trump's victory but stressed the i importancee deepening japapan/u.s. tieses. >> i think mr. trump's radical announcements caught the public's attention, i hope that

he will become sincere now that he has won. >> translator: we want to contribute to the u.s. as a japanese company. i hope new policies will support our efforts, hopefully related to asia. >> indian prime minister modi has told japanese business leaders he wants to deepen economic ties between the two countries. modi attended a lunch in tokyo on friday hosted by the japan business federation and japapan chamber of commerce and industry. >> translator: direct investment from japan to india has increased by six-fold in the past decade. and more than 1200 japanese firms are now doing business in india. >> he asked modi to improrove t

business environment in his country by improving government transparency. >> we will of course want the greater influx of japanese investments. for this we will be proactive in addressing your concerns. >> modi said india offers cheap labor and a large market. matching japan's technology with india's people will be beneficial to both countries. here's a look at other business stories we're following. the toshiba group made an operating profit of more thann $900 m million from the april-to-september period. the group trying to recover from an accounting scandal released earnings report on friday. sales of flash memory chips for smartphones were brisk. demands for hard discs for pcs and game consoles were brisk.

analysts say the key to the company's recovery is improving transparency and getting the alert tag removed. meanwhile toshiba executives have announced a subsidiary company inflated sales by about $5 million. executives said employees have been padding sales by forging orders since 2003. toshiba's chief financial officer called the actions very regrettable and said the firm would do its utmost to prevent similar cases. company managers in japan are paying less for raw materials. the producer price index is down 2.7% from a year ago. the figure has been in negative territory for 19 straight months. but the rate of decline is slowing, the central bank officials say they will monitor the impact of the u.s. presidential results on producer prices. you can catch our report again online together with a full transcript, look for nhk

world and business wrap. that's a look at business news. i'll leave you with the markets. tens of thousands of people in western japan have taken part in annual drills to help them prepare for a possible disaster at a local nuclear power plant. one of the reactors went back online three months ago. the drills assumed that a major quake struck a nuclear accident

at the ikata plant. >> an emergency control center was set up on a hill near the plant following the 2011 disaster in fukushima to prevent it from tsunamis. this is the first time the drill involved evacuating people by boat. the ikata plant is located at the tip of a cape. that would make it difficult for isolated residents to reach safety if roads were cut off. >> translator: i'm worried whether this port will be the same after an earthquake hits. it could be damaged if a tsunami strikes. >> local officials have been reviewing evacuation plans since a series of quakes hit kumamoto prefecture in april. participants in the u.n. climate change conference in morocco have discussed how to cope with the increasing number of people forced to flee their homes due to events related to

global warming. on day four of the climate talks known as c.o.p. 2222, discussss centereded on climate migrants, representatative from the south-pacicific nation of fiji spoke about a coastal village that was forced too move ininla due to highh waveses and storm surges cauaused b by cyclones.. the represent i have beens stressed the need to take countermeasures. a participant from drought-prone ethiopia said global warming is prompting people to migrate. officials of the u.n. high cocommissioner for refugees sai statistics since 2008 show that around 22 million people are forced to migrate or evacuate every year in the wake of natural disasters. but the officials adddded that e agency has yet to grasp how many are compelled to do so by events linked directly to global warming. >> it's incredibly important that we develop and strengthen a system to insure that the rights of those persons are protected.

>> many participants said governments around the world should cooperate in promptly setting upp a new assistance framework based on the paris agreements. japan's environment ministry said more than half of the coral in the country's largest reef in okinawa have died from bleaching. experts suspect the die-off is related to global warming. the ministry conducted a survey on japan's largest coral lagoon between september and october. water temperatures around okinawa rose 1 to 2 degrees above average between july and september. bleached coral has been spotted in waters since then. researchers confirm that 97% of coral in the reef was bleached. and 56% had died. they said the remaining coral was at risk. an expert says water temperatures were particularly high this year due to the el nino phenomenon.

>> translator: corals are sensitive to warm water. they're more vulnerable to global warming than other ecosystems. we have a report about massive cocoral bleaching in australia' great barrier reef in april and may. >> he said water temperatures could continue to rise, and it's not clear whether coral can recover. he expressed concern about the long-term impact of the change on marine ecosystems. japan is going through a tourism boom these days, with more and more visitors coming here, people working in the industry are looking for ways to better serve foreign guests, for one company, the answer can be found by sifting through wi-fi data. nhk world's kagashi coda reports. >> reporter: a smartphone and wi-fi is all that tourists need.

>> when i've been walking all day and when i want to go back it's useful to look up which route to go back. >> wi-fi is also catering to businesses and tourists, wito gather information to improve services. this company asks users to register where they are from and determines their routes. >> translator: the location data doesn't lie it shows plain facts about how foreign visitors move about. the information tells us many things like trends according to nationalities and other things. >> reporter: smaller places tourism is benefitting from knowing such habits, this hot springs resorts in western japan has trouble attractcting tourur, but that's changed. >> i'm from italy.

>> london, britain. >> and i come from vancouver, canada. >> now more than 34,000 a year come to this city. city officials set up a task force to bring in even more. the team is made up of tourism staff. and an expert on data analysis. and they learned something unexpected. they had assumed visitors arrived directly from big cities like osaka. but they soon realized that many are coming from the city of himeji, it has a castle listed as a unesco world heritage site. but transportation out of there is a bit of a challenge. >> translator: many visitors

leave their hotels at around 9:00 or 10:00 a.m. but buses are earlier than that. >> translator: we didn't realize that so many people came here by way of himemeji. >> members of the task force asked bus operarators to make adjustments to their schedule in the number of buses on the route. > translator: byy a analyzin wi-fi data, we were a able to d out whatt we couldn't have know otherwise. i hope further data analysis will lead to attractining more foreign visitors and having them spend more money here. >> reporter: the company says there's no risk of losing personal information. it says it only keeps statistics. and it's the stats that are helping improve visits. they may even get people to come back again. tadashi koga, nhk world.

sumo wrestlers get to grips this sunday at the opening of the november grand sumo tournament in southwestern japan. one young rikishi is a hot topic, many say he's a sure-fire sumo champion. >> his name means to shine and 22-year-old kagayahi is a rising star. playing baseball to blow off steam he's still developing as a pro rikishi or wrestler. he may be young, but he holds his own in the ring. standing 1 3 centimeters tall and weighing 153 kilograms, he's bulldozing out opponents and knocking them down on a regular basis these days. he won nine matches in the last tournament and racked up no

losses in the for the first time in the top division. >> how do you think did you in the last tournament? >> i was able to keep my cool. not like the past contests. and i could feel the difference in my condition when i was able to go forward against opponents, i couldn't push against before. >> he may be a sumo natural. he developed so fast that by four years old he could no longer fit into clothes for his age. as a young boy he won both the team and individual divisions at the national junior high school sumo championship. he headed straight into the professional league after junior high graduation.. he fought his first professional match in march 2010 and won promotion to the third highest division after only eight toumts, that was when kag yakki hit a wall. his inability to fight cleverly in a lower body position stopped

his progress. >> translator: >> i was too cocky thinking i could rise through the ranks without working on my technique. my master told me if i didn't change my attitude, i'd be stuck in a lower division forever. >> upon turning pro, kagayaki entered a stable that has a reputation as one of sumo's strictest outfits. the owner competed at the third highest rank of sumo. he said coaching him is hard but good, because he's young. >> translator: there's not a single positive thing in kagayaki's sumo. it's fun to train him now because he has a lot of

potential. >> the intense master disciple relationship eases outside of training. >> translator: i don't want to just gain weight, i want to build up my body while training and be able to stay agile. >> translator: that's a cool comment. >> translator: i think of myself as a sort of parent to him. although he might not feel that way. >> translator: what's your goal for the upcoming tournament? >> i want to win in double digits so i can stay in the top division. i'll keep striving towards becoming a yokozuna. >> hello, i'm kagayaki, i will do my best. >> now the stage is set for this

outstanding young rikishi 0 to stir up some excitement. his fans hope he'll have a sparkling career just like his ring name. hiro morita, nhk world. you can follow all the action on nhk world's website. jonathan oh joins us with this hour's weather update starting with weather in europe. >> those living there would prefer it not to snow going into the weekend. they've had so much wintry weather, the good news is if they want a break it's on the way. you can see a huge sea of white in the area because of the snowfall. take a look at this video, give you an idea of how wintry it is over there. an early season heavy snowfall blanketed sweden and finland. stockholm recorded the deepest november snow since records began in 1905. most bus services and flights were delayed or canceled. and some schools were also

closed in the process. snow showers started to taper off, but some flurries are expected a little bit as temperatures continue to decline. you can tell right there as vehicles needed help getting out of the wintry weather. take a look at this map. give you an idea what it looks like. high pressure over the scandinavian peninsula. we may see a few flurries from time to time but in general things should start calming down and we will see dryer conditions going forward in time. that's not the case for italy into switzerland. you are going to see more snowfall up towards the alps and also rain down toward places like rome. some thunderstorms are also possible. that system will push to the east into the balkans and that's going to bring rainy conditions there as well. windy conditions have been reported in the central portion of europe. the big story coming up for friday is cold air coming in from the north. it is a going to settle over a good portion of the continent.

we are also looking at the possibility ofof snow in places like poland throughout the day. as t the low shifts to the east expect the area of snow to continue to expand. toward the wesest some showers g into the united kingdom. over the weekend we may be dealing with rain. so have those umbrellas handy. chilly as well. 8 in london. snow into warsaw and also into moscow. again it's going to be a bit cold. let's look at the foforecast fo northeastern portions of asia. we have rain finally getting out of the area. it was a cold, wet, drippy day. we are going to continue to see the item move to the north and east. behind it, high pressure will be coming in. what does that mean? a southerly flow coming into the picture and much warmer conditions are also expected. the chilly weather that we saw the past few days going away for the weekend and even into the first part of next week as warm air comes into the picture. in tokyo we may be dealing with highs approaching 20 degrees.

that's quite above what we're supposed to see this time of year. rain into sapporo, not snow. mainly rain. look at this. tokyo, 20 degrees by monday with a average high of 16. dry conditions in kyoto. dry for the weekend, wet on monday. wrapping things up with north america. talk about dry, that's pretty much most of the united states. even a good portion of canada. rain in the pacific northwest and over into the northeastern areas dealing with more in terms of rain n and windy conditions. that's just about it. everywhere else looking at relatively dry conditions as we go through our friday. hope you have a good day wherever you are. here's your extended outlook.

one more story before we go. farmers are gearing up for the christmas holiday season with poinsettia flowers. shipments of the decorative plant are now peaking. in the town north tokyo, about 30 farmers are producing potted poinsettia and princettia. shipments are now on the way to buyers. the red and pink colors are especially vivid this year thanks to cool temperatures last susummer. >> translator: i hope people will give these potted flowers as gifts or enjoy them at home during the christmas season. >> most will be shipped to areas in the tokyo metropolitan region and western japan until early december.

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