>> kokoro. it means "heart." >> stick with it, and "easy japanese" will give you all sorts of phrases you can use every day. > welcome back. thank you for joining us again on nhk " "newsline." we begin in tokyo where 107 -- in hong kong, where the new security law has led people to taking steps to protect themselves from being targeted. a prpro democracy advdvocate ha

said that h he has left the territory. he is not saying where he is, but he said that he will keep up the advocacy work on the international stage. he called on the people of hong kong to speak up and urged other countries to watch out for the country's growing authoritarianism, he said on facebook, that he braced himself for the possibility that he would have to leave when he decided to testify. the u.s. congress has passed a bill imposing sanctions on chinese officials involved in efforts to under mine hong kong's autonomy, the senate approved the bill on thursday. the legislation had passed the house of representatives the prevevious day. ththe bill becomes law once it' signed by president donald trump. a chinese foreign ministry spokes person responded to the move saying china will react strongly and the u.s. shall bear all consequences, unquote.

other countries are also condemning beijing for breeching the one country two systems principal that protected hong kong's autonomy, the british -- is allowing those from hong kokg to the a apply for citizenship. score. >> and japan's ruling liberal democratic party is moving to have a planned state visit by chinese's president called off. they note several hundred arrests that have occurred in the after math of the latting affect. the resolution expresses serious and grave concerns and said the situation cannot be ignored.

it calls on the japanese government to take appropriate measures to protect the nationals in the territory, and to consider support for hong kong residents. including issuing work visas to those that want to leave. xi's visitit was schedululed in early april and was postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic. the ldp plans to adopt the resolution as early as friday. ♪ here in tokyo, 107 new coronavirus cases were reported on thursday. it's the highest daily tally since the national state of emergency was lifted in late may and the first time the city has hit triple digits in two months. cases have been been calendar increasing in the capital with the number topping 50 every day since last friday. >> translator: over 100 today? i think we need to reconsider our behavior.

we need to hold off on going out like this. >> t translator: i think the hi is because of more testing. but i'm a bit scared. our business will be hit again if the restrictions return. >> tokyo's governor is calling for a higher alert level for people in the capital. >> translator: our current stage is, caution requireded against spreading infectction. we need your cooperationon with your everyday activities to help contain the virus. >> koike attributes the rise to people who eitheher work at or visit nighttime entertainment spots, such as host or hostess barsrs. she says many are in their 20s and 30s. and the top spokesperson for the central government says it's also looking into the situation closely.

>> translator: we don't think the currrrent situation immediately requires a state of emergency. we will deal with the matter in clclose association with the metropolitan government. >> across the nation, more than 190 new cases were confirmed on thursday, again, the highest daily increase since the end of the emergency declaration. that brings the total number of cases to over 19,000. the death toll stands at more than 970. scientists that japan are set to investigate reports of lingering symptoms in people who have recovered from covid-19. some people have complained of persistent fever, fatigue, and shortness of breath for months after testing negative and being rereleased f from hospspital. this uniniversity student t say symptoms have bebeen so severe, he's had to take time off school. >> translator: what worries me

most now is i don't know why i still have a fever. i don't know why the symptoms are continuing. >> members of the japanese respiratory society say they'll focus their research on damage to lung function, among other problems. the society chairman says nothing is known about how many such cases there are in japan. >> translator: we need to find out how frequently these aftereffects present themselves and what kind of patients have them. >> the researchers plan to big collecting data from medical executions across japan as early as next month. sources s say that jetro wi teteam up with alibaba group, t aim is to help small and mid size companies to have access to the world's largest online trade show run by the company. they want to support companies

that are not able to hold face to face meetings overseas. jetro will seek applicationons from companies and other entities that w want to join alibab's online exhibition. it will select 400 of them to set up sites with the fair for one year starting this fall. the process will be less burden ensom than in the past. the expo boasts registered buyers from 200 countries and territories. jetro will analyze data such as how many views each site at the fair attracts and where the views are coming from. it will use the information to provide advdvice on winning business contracts. north korea's latest move toward the south was to blow up a joint liason office last month

and warn of military action against seoul, then kim jong-un decided to suspend military escalation and there's been no further action since that announcement. we sat down with the former north korea envoy for insight in to ininterkorean relations. >> he is a veteranan south kore dip who low mat and negotiator with t the nonorth. he was seoul's chief delegate to the six party talks from 2006-2-2008. he also served as national security adviser to the former president. referring to kim's decision to postpone military action, he said that north korea never planned to do anything in the first place. >> they mementioned military pls

in order to add impact to their threats. for their intimidation tactic. if they actually went ahead with their military threat, they lose everything. they lose everything. and that would bring huge humiliation to kim jong-un, they are very smart. by pretending to carry out the threats to achieve all the puose they have intended by >>e e said thahehe sth korea an government's response to the threats by pledging to prosecute defectors, sent ding leaflets across the border is not smart

action. >> any aspects of negotiating with them that we should be more careful or pay more attention in order to produce more good results sns. >> i think in negotiations, the most important thing is the leveraging you have. the leverage means the power to affect the outcome, or to determine or effect north korea's fate. what north korea values most is sanctions relief. security guarantees. all those things that are stipulated in the joint statement. but if you ease sanctions before they make the progress, then you lose all the influence to move

forward. >> he stressed the importance of the u.s. south korea alliance if the negotiations are too ill to results. >> we have no leverage with north korea. we can expect to have it when we have power to persuade u.s., when we cannot communicate with the u.s. properly, then we cannot borrow the leverage from the u.s. to use against north korea. so, what i would recommend is to repair our u.s. relations to restore the credibility of the alliance. to strengthen our leverage with north korea. >> nhk world. >> and now to world weather. a few days after a rain storm last western and eastern japan,

another round of stormy weather is under way. we have the details on what residents need to watch o out f. fronts started to bring heavy downpo downpours, as the frontal system moves fourth, the showers will move north as we go in to the weekend. another storm system will arrive in the same location on sunday. through the next couple of days, rainfall could total 400-450 millimeters in southern areas. the ground is loosened by the downpours in many areas so the potential for flooding and land slides will be the biggest concern. stormy weather is expected in tokyo and shizuoka in the latter

part of the day on friday and in to saturday morning. some showers will be heavier at times in osaka and fukuoka over the next couple of days. it's affecting central and eastern china. showers will per assist on friday, and a daytime heat will also create thuhunder showewers hongng kong, taipei and manila, with highs in the 30s. hot weather is effecting southern parts of europe. some of the thunderstorms have brought large hail and damaging winds. the highs will climb in the 32 degrees, that is ten degrees warmer than usual for the area. showers may bring some cooler conditions this weekend. in the meantime, temperatures will rise in the southwest. highs for lisbon and madrid, will warm up to the upper 30s

over the next couple of days. stay safe and have a nice weekend. ♪

that is all for this edition of nhk newsline, thank you for watching and hopeful to see you again. xxx welcome to "newsline indepth" we come to you from the rooftop of nhk headquarters. behind me, japan's capitol is slowly coming back to life after the lifting of the state of emergency. the world has become a strangely

different place since covid-19 has arrived on the scene. working at home, wearing face masks and spacing apart in the supermarket is part of the new reality. we have come out in the open air looking for the big picture. today, we bring you an exclusive interview with historian hararri, at this time of great anxiety and uncertainty, questionss are being asked of hw we should all transition to the post pandemic world. -- it's the timime when we most need democracy.

governments are now handingng o billions and trillions of dollars and yen, and we need democrat democratic supervise, otherwise, busineness owners could help hi businesses and supporters and let otherer businesses fafall. we need emergency measures, definitely. but even in emergencies we still need checks and balances and we ststill need supervise to make sure that the government is reallyly serving the interestt everybody and not just of those connect to o power. >> isn't it often the case when, during the time of emergency, people are bound to even support some draconian measures, what will it mean? >> so, that's the danger.

in a time of emergency, and this is a double emergency. people are afraid for their lives from the epidemic itself and a lot of economic concerns. people are losing their jobs. businesses are collapsing. entire industries, likee the tourism industry are collapsing. so, a lot o of people are, b be they are soo afraid they just want somebody wisee and powower to take over like some kind of father figure and decide everything for us. andd take care of us. >> yes, yes. >> a and this is, again, very dangerous. because if you give so much power to just one person, and that person makes a mistake, the consequences are far, far worse. >> he said that citizens can and should speak out on what direction the government should take at this uncertain time.

he believes people's voices can carry weight in the increasingly fragmented world. in the absence of the viable leadership would you think, like fillll out o of the vovoid. >> part of the void can be filled by businesses, orgaganizations, and ordinary citizezens. prince, by sharing information. >> hm-mm. >> butut also, i think byy asserting polititical pressure ththeir own governrnment. ifif the public tells the government we don't care a abou anybodyy else. we just want you to gets many ventilators as possible for our country. and if you have to fight other countries for it, w we don't ca. then the governmenent will d do. if on the other hand, the public isis more responsnsible and sho greaeater g global solidarity a

people tell the government, look, this is an emergency, we need medical equipment, but we know that other couountries aren even worse situations, and w we want to, wee w want to o be mor responsible and to s show great solidarity. so, please help the other countries. we are willing t to carry t the burden of it. then government at least in some countries will respopond to it. and i hope that we will see these greater global solidari solidaritisolidarity not just because it's essential for dealing with this crisis. but also because it will affect the world after the crisis. if in thihis crisis, countries e just fighting each other it will poison international relations for years to come. >> the specter of countries fighting each other in a crisis is all too familiar.

we have witnessed china blocking taiwan from attending the w.h.o. emergency meetings and the u.s. blaming china for the spread of what is sometimes called the wuhan virus. the news is not all gloomy. the w.h.o. is considering a new mission to i investigate t the source of the coronavirus in china and said, it's in discussions with beijing. which road will nations take. corporation or conflict? to fight in glglobal challenge will have an enduring impact on future. if human kind learns the lessons of history, getetting our actct totogether is the only way forward. >> in previous big pandemics like the black death. the biggest problem in human kind, was that we didn't know what we were facing. people were dying in their millions. and nobody knew why. on or what could be done about

it. in the case of coronavirus, it took us two weeks to sequence the genome and develop an effective test to knowwho hasasi and who doesn't. sciencee is now is in a stronge position than in any prerevious time in history. soso there's no question that w will defeat this virus provided that humans all over the world cooperate effectively. >> some say that the key lies in deglobalization, if the pandemic was to result out of more globalization. obviouously you do n not agree. >> no, when n pan pandndemics developed before,

there was noo airplanes,s, and still it was much worse. if you think you can prevent pandememic by isisolation, you actuallyly could go all the way back to the stone age a and obviously we cannnnot go backk there. so the real anti-dote is not isolation, it's cooperation and information. our biggest advantage ovever th rus is thahat humans can cooperate in ways that viruses cannot. a virus in china, cannot give information to the virus s in t usa about how to infect or how to avoid the human immune system. but a doctor inn china can give adadvice to a dr. in the u.s.s. government off china can help te government o of the u.s. theyy come, they can form a common plan of how to fight the virus globally. this is our biggest advantage

over the virus. as long as the epidemic spreads in any country, it endangers the whole of h human kind. >> the fundamental program of fighting a war against the coronavirus, the invisible enemy. is that it is hard to know when the battle is over. and this explains why governments are so cautious about lockdown exit plans and he said that successfully navigating the pandemic requires a new mind-set. that means that dropping the metaphors of war. if you could define victorory. howw do you define it. coronavirus is not somomething that can be eradicated. >> we should not think o of it a war. it's the wrong metataphore, inn war, you have soldiers with guns

kiing eachh other. it's a different kind of situation. i mean, the heroes of this situation is a nurse and hospital changing bed seats. the whole crisis is about taking care of people. nonot about k killing and wins. yes, we need to win again the virus. bu no human being should be seen as an enemy. so, thinknk we though leave asi the met for of war and batattle and victctory. and success, i think would be, if we take c care of all humans around the world. if we protecting humans all over the world from the spreaead of e virus.s. and if we prorotect humans all over the world from the economic conseqequences of the crisis. if we protect people in just our country and other c countries would completely collapse, i would not define that as a success. >> and in the long history of

human beings, in the entiree history, what is the signifificance of the c coronav pandemic. >> thehe humans will survive it. the h humans are stronger than e virus. we have survivedd other epidemis inin the past. no question about it. soso, u ultimately the impacactt predetermined. it's up to us. we choose howow it w wl end. if we choose wrongly, if we choose n nationalilistic isolat. thee result will be a big catastrophe in history. millllions of people dying,g, political chaos.

if we choose wisely. if we choosose global solidarit. if we choose democratic responsibility. if we choose to believe, will look like a good moment for human kind. and a a momentt when we overcam not just the virus but our own internal demon. thee moment when we overcame, d hatred and emotions and delusions and came o out as muc stronger and more unified. >> he reminds us that the post coronavirus world is not about eradicating coronavirus it't's t going to go away and we have no

choice but to learn to live with it. we have other choices and we need to make them wisely. they are going to define a way of life for many years to come. that's it for todayay's host: as coronavirus cases rise

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