this sash is weaved by one of the most established textile makers in kyoto. they make the textile for the imperial family. among those who joined the project was this man. he agreed to design a kimono garment for south africa. matsuta specializes in a process that involves his depiction for flowers. for this garment he applied several shades of purple to create these flowers. for a very short time each year, south africa's highland desert becomes fields of flowers. takakura dedicated an image of this scene to the spirit of the late president nelson mandela. he used a variety of techniques to achieve a sense of depth and dimension in the scene, which includes south africa's national flower. >> translator: i'm so moved. i've never seen a show like this. it was wonderful. i'm very satisfied with my work. >> reporter: the south africa garment appeared at the beginning of the show. embassy officials were among those who watched the show. people loved it. >> this catches the beauty of south africa. it's our national father. the other flowers are to us as japan's sa

. >>> some people in the japanese capital of kyoto kicked off their new year the traditional way. they took part in a calligraphy event and they wrote down their wishes for 2015. kitano tenmangu shrine hosts the event every year. the shrine is dedicated to the scholar sugawara michizane who is a master calligrapher. young and old wrote words such as new spring. and sheep, which is this year's zoed ack sign. >> translator: i wrote gratitude. my family and everyone around me help me to pass my upcoming exam to enter a high school. >> the good wishes will be put on display at the shrine later this month. >>> and that's "newsline" for this hour. i'm gene otani in tokyo. r detectors are brought into scan the java sea. brazil's dilma rousseff is sworn in for a second term as president.

snow is on tap in kyoto on your saturday. all right. that's it for now. up next is your three-day forecast. >>> we have been talking about the breaking news out of jordan. jordanian state television says the government is prepared to free an iraqi death row inmate. but it says only if the jordanian pilot captured by islamic state last year is released. the prisoner is sajida al rishawi. she has been sentenced to death for her role in the 2005 bomb attacks in the country's capital amman. jordanian authorities blame the violence on al qaeda in iraq. the predecessor of islamic state militant group. a video posted on the internet on tuesday demanded rishawi's release in the next 24 hours or both goto and the pilot would be killed. moaz kasasbeh was captured by the militants last month after his jet went down during an air strike. the station did not mention if japanese hostage kenji goto will be released, as part of the potential deal. and we will keep you updated -- we'll keep updating you on this news as we get more information. >>> and that's "newsline" fo

goal for this year is to create an environment enabling more tourists to visit not only tokyo and kyoto but other parts of the country. >> some regions have been short of accommodation at sight seeing buses during certain seasons. the shortage of parking for buses has led to problems with onstreet parking. ministry officials will meet with the local governments and come up with measures by the end of june. the government plans to raise the number of foreign tourists to an annual 20 million by the time of the tokyo olympics in 2020. >>> all right. time to get a check of the markets now. investors are concerned about the coming earnings season in europe with siemens and erickson posting profits. benchmarks are all down with both frankfurt and paris losing 0.6% right now. london is lower by 0.3%. turning to the asia pacific region in tokyo the benchmark nikkei index closed up 1.7% 17,768. market players are betting on good news and earnings reports here. they're expecting japanese exporters to benefit from the weaker yen, and importers to reap a windfall from the slide in oil prices. well,

the company that makes the patry is based in kyoto, gsu archon.hem to tell us what had gone wrong. hi, how are you. al jazeera. >> al jazeera. >> yes. >> i wonder whether you might be willing to do an interview. >> they refused. the battery is only one part of the complex system. there's a charger made at a factory thousands of kilometres away. what happened there showed boeing learnt years ago how dangerous a lithium-ion battery could be. in tuscon, arizona, we track down michael layon, an electrical technician. >> i've been working electronics since i was 17, and i joined the paratroopers and was assigned to an electronic communications battalion in the 2nd airborne. this is the first time i have been here since 2007. it's hard to believe that this is what's left of the 3-storey engineering structure. >> on a november morning in 2006, layon and dozens of others clocked in at secure plane, the charger. >> and i started a pot of coffee. i went into the lab and started unit. >> then it happened. >> there was a loud explosion. all of a sudden i was

he has ma degrees from kyoto university in japan where he has lived for quite a while and also from yale university where he has a phd in history, he has been a visiting professor in japan, belgium and at swarthmore and also wrote books including "war and national reinvention: japan in the great war, 1914-1919," and also another one, "world war i and the triumph of a new japan 1919-1930." welcome to frederick dickinson! [applause] >> thank you very much, and thank you to all of you for sticking around for the final bash here. i am honored and delighted to be the last headliner and to use the opportunity to sort of go a little global. we have steadily made our way up europe and i want to take us a little further if you don't mind. i want to thank the macarthur memorial and the hampton roads naval museum for inviting me here to this wonderful occasion it is a personal honor and a privilege to me, but i also think it is a personal honor and privilege to asia to be included on the program of world war i. i think it you guys thought of it because you have macarthur. i hate to admit it, but th

he has degrees from kyoto university in japan and yale university where he has a phd in history. he has been a visiting professor at institutions in japan belgium, in this country among his books are "war and national reinvention," "world war i and the triumph of a new japan". he will spike on the great war as world war. welcome to professor dickenson. [ applause ] >>> thanks very much. thanks to all of you for sticking around for the final bash here. i'm honored and delighted to be the last headliner i guess and to be able to use the opportunity to sort of go a little global. we have sort of steadily made our way outside europe. i am going to try my best to get us even farther. i do want to thank the mcarthur memorial also the hampton roads naval museum and old dominion to inviting me here. it is a personal honor and privilege for me and i think it is a personal honor and privilege for asia to be included on the program of world war i. thank you for that. you guys thought of it because you have mcarthur. i should have made my pilgrimage a long time ago. for us i do realize he is

he has ma degrees from kyoto university in japan where he's lived for quite a while. yale university where he has a phd. from history. he's been a visiting professor in institutions in japan, belgium, swath more in this country and the reinvention, japan the great war from 1914 to 1939 -- sorry, 1919. and another one world war 1 and the triumph of a new japan 1919 to 1930. you can see the dawn of the asia pacific world. welcome to professor dickinson. honored to be the last headline. going global. with made our way up europe and i'm going try our best to get us even further. i want to thank the mcarthur memorial and the hampton roads navy museum in old dominion for inviting me here. it's a personal honor and privilege to me. but i think it's a personal honor and privilege for asia to be included on the program. of world war i. so thank you for that. and i think you know you uh guys thought of it. because, well you have mcarthur. i hate to admit it but it's the first time i've been to norfolk, even though as a japan specialist i made my pilgrimage a long time ago. japa

so they joined in a kyoto-type treaty in stopping their emissions. they imposed a carbon tax on the economy a few years ago and it caused horrendous damage. it caused $9 billion in lost economic activity per year and destroyed tens of thousands of jobs. it was so bad that the government recently voted to repeal the carbon tax that they imposed just a couple years ago. and their economy is now better for it. in fact, it was announced just following the repeal that australia experienced record job growth of 120,000 jobs, far more than the 10,000 to 15,000 jobs the economists had expected. we also looked closely at this bill because the scientists are having a difficult time explaining the 15-year hiatus we've seen in temperature increases. this isn't me. this actually is the ipcc -- the ippcc agrees with this, the "economist" magazine agrees with this. reputable publications. and reviewing the science is one thing they have to do in the e.p.w. committee the committee that i chair. because it is on the disputed science -- it is on this disputed science

one developing country status in the kyoto per call, which means they are not obliged to set emissionsgets, but the former president made a key strategy in his administration, and this new administration is pushing that through. >> how does the carbon trading system actually work here? >> first of all, they will set the pricing, so companies are trading based on that system. that will be the platform. the government, first of all, set the initial price, and then company start trading. there's no guideline on the which woulde kau, be one ton of carbon dioxide, but officials hope it would be around nine dollars. major korean companies are now part of the system. 525 companies. the quotas for individual companies have and sent to them, but they have not been made public. one environment minister official telling me that depending on how trading goes, they may increase their quota by about 10% for the companies. >> interesting. has been long overdue. from what i understand, it has been more than three years since the carbon emission laws was actually enacted. why the delay? >> as you can i

i--i went to kyoto and spent you know, a good deal of that summer there. and, you know, i'm chinese, so what am i doing with an affinity towards japanese architecture? i always felt a little guilty. and then my mother takes my brother and i back to china, and we get to visit my father's childhood home. and... c-span: to fukien? >> guest: fukien province. c-span: province. where is it? >> guest: it's built on a river it's--god, it's near xuzhou. i'm terrible. we sort of did a circuit. we went from shiyan, shanghai, xuzhou, then into fukien. and i'm looking at this house or what remains of it, and it's a japanese-style house. and i'm going to my mother `mother, what is this?' and it's, like, `oh, your grandmother loved--your grandmother loved japanese architecture,' and they had this house built in the style of a japanese house. so there i am--obviously, my dad grew up in this house. he designed much of the furniture in the way out of our house in athens, and i--you know, you grow up and you absorb what your cultural surrounding is. so i--i--again, something

administration when al gore went down to south america and came back with this idea, they had the kyoto treaty and we're all going to sign it and if we don't do this, the world will come to an end and we'll all die because of man-made gases. we started to look at it to see if the science was there because the only science we heard from was the united nations science which was ipcc. we started getting phone calls from scientists all over the country. put that chart up there on the scientists. i came down to the floor -- this was a long time ago -- and i started naming scientists calling in and groups of scientists. we got up to 100 and then up to 1,000 and then 4,000. this is all in my web site even though it is a long time ago. you look at all these renowned scientists, all of them -- here's one. richard lindzen is with m.i.t. richard lindzen is one who is considered by a lot of people to be the foremost authority on this and he's the one who came out adamantly and said science is not there, it is not settled. so several others started calling in. he in fact, i will quote him if i have

bill to ratify the kyoto protocol for a program that reduced city facility energy consumption by overreased city to efficiency by 10% in its first five years. these kinds of efficiency initiatives often pay back and save money very quickly at a local level making an economic focused argument about the clue to local decision-makers. if i had more time i could highlight adaptation oriented examples as well. strategies also can shift branches such as using the court to force action by the executive or legislative branches to create action independent of the. we've already heard from any about the dynamics that preceded and followed a massive epa case. about a book coming out in a few months with cambridge with but co-author jackie on the red to impact both directed impact of climate change litigation. and wha we found in this work that isa helped inspire our partisanship project is with respect to partisanship, the interaction with this litigation is complex. the is complex. so on the one hand the supreme court is respected institution and it help land legitimacy as well as provide a way

he has ma degrees from kyoto university in japan where he's lived for quite a while. yale university where he has a phd. from history. he's been a visiting professor in institutions in japan, belgium, swath more in this country and the reinvention, japan the great war from 1914 to 1939 -- sorry, 1919. and another one world war 1 and the triumph