abe did not visit last august either. then too he made a similar offering. but he visited in december, a year after he took office for a second time. a group of lawmakers did pay a visit to the shrine on friday. the 84 diet members included senior members from both ruling and opposition camps. three cabinet ministers visited the shrine separately. people in tokyo rallied for and against the visits to yaskuni by political leaders. former supreme court chief justice toru miyoshi represents a group of more than 1,400. they reject the view that the shrine glorifies war. >> translator: it's a universal sentiment to want to express gratitude and honor to those who died for the country. it transcends religion and ideology. >> and a group of about 90 gathered to oppose the visits. some say japan should never forget its history of aggression in other parts of asia. >> translator: i'm aware that my brother, in a way, was one of the perpetrators against people of asian nations during the war. when we talk about peace, i think both perpetrators and victims should forgiv

abe did not visit last august either. then too he made a similar offering, but he visited in december a year after he took office for a second time. a group of lawmakers did pay a visit to the shrine on friday. three cabinet ministers visited the shrine separately. >>> officials from china and south korea criticize the offering to the shrine and the visits by cabinet ministers. a spoerks person released a statement saying beijing is firmly opposed acts that represents the government's wrongful attitude toward issues. it deeply reflects upon its history of aggression. the ministry did not summon the ambassador to lodge a protest this year as it did last year. a south korean foreign minister spokesperson also issued a statement. this year's commentae mementary the environment. they need to demonstrate genuine remorse through actions. >> japan's ties with south korea and china have been strained. there are new signs seoul and even beijing are changing their stance. >> reporter: south korea and chinese leaders met in seoul in

last year, the day after christmas, prime minister abe made a surprising visit.it took many koreans, it was like a kamikaze visit by the prime minister, which shocked many countries. it was an unpleasant surprise to the united states as well. that has made a very fatal blow to the perception of sincerity by the koreans. again, recently japanese government came out with an idea that we should review the admission of the mistakes and made an apology. he announced the statement, the chief cabinet secretary. he was a deputy prime minister and the leader of the democratic hardy. he was the government's top spokesman. we wonder why japan, at this time, has to review this statement. it should not have started in the first place. it gave the impression japan was trying to see if the legitimacy and the actuality was wrong. the most important thing is that through the review itself, japanese government, abe government, has reconfirmed the content of the gulf corner statement. that is an important aspect of this drama. i want to tell my japanese friends and japanese governm

that is unbelievable. >> reporter: abe was a passenger on the rented cess nathat crashed only about 50 yards after take-off at the airport. his life, at 18 years old, was just beginning to take off. >> he was so sweet. so sad that this happened. >> reporter: anna is abe's step mother. >> he always had a smile on his face, offering help, how can i help you all the time. >> reporter: the other three passengers were abe's school mates, including the 20-year-old pilot who had his temporary license for a year and regular pilot's license for a month. abe and two of the other passengers were on the wrestling team which is set to begin practice in october. >> they're all hard working good students. they're respectful and a joy to coach. >> reporter: according to his social media, abe was excited about continuing his sports career at case western, a career he shared with his father who helped coach some of the teams. >> his father would go out with him to the field and practicing football the father will go to school, and make sure that he -- that he is doing great and the wrestling team. >>

abe distinguished himself at gorge town prep. in his senior year he suffered a football injury and couldn't wrestle. >> he was looking forward to wrestling at case western. i talked to him last week when he moved in, actually. one of the first things he did was go right to the wrestling room and sent me a picture in the wrestling room. >> reporter: the georgetown prep community is devastated by the news that 18-year-old abe pishevar was one of four students from case western reserve university was killed when this aircraft crashed shortly after takeoff last night near cleveland, ohio. georgetown prep held a prayer service in the school chapel. just before the service i spoke with athletic director by phone. >> he was an energetic, enthusiastic, fun young man who probably wanted to please you more than any other young men we have. >> reporter: friends oth family shared their grief at the home where abe's mother lives in rockville. she had already left for cleveland. family friends say they have known abe since he was small. >> all

he's the one tasked with making abe nom micks work. we had an exclusive interview with the minister and he stressed even though japan posted negative growth of 6.8% in the june quarter due to the consumption tax hike there's no need for undue pessimism. >> translator: it's important when identifying actual economic trends to look at the average growth of a certain period. so from january to march and then april to june, when you see this big jump and a dip, you have to make sure to look at the average and compare that to what happened, for example, the year before. the key is what happens from july to september. many analysts predict we will see 4% growth in that period. we have not given any official projections, but we do believe we'll see a good recovery. i think we should not be too worried. >> translator: the administration is facing a crucial decision by the end of the year. whether to further raise the consumption tax from the current 8% to 10%. he says the best scenario would be to hike the tax as planned, but the government ne

. >>> japan's liberal democratic party has met shinzo abe. it is the first time he will renew his team since he launched his government in december 2012. abe wants ishaba to resume a post to allow japan to exercise the right to collective self defense. but ishaba declined the office and indicated he wants to stay on as the party's secretary general. >> translator: i will fully support prime minister abe and will keep in close contact with him. >> abe still wants to give ishaba a key cabinet post to boost unity. >>> people in japan are seeing the first locally transmitted cases of dengue fever in 70 years. three students contracted the disease. it is rarely fatal but it can be severely painful. >> reporter: visitors to this area don't often see sights like this. authorities believe the students were infected in this park so they blocked it off temporarily and started spraying with insecticide. >> translator: i'm scared. >> translator: i'm afraid because there are still mosquitos at this time of year. i will try to keep up with the news so i wo

appointed by babes people -- abe's people. is totally out of context. if it does not follow democratic values, where's the whole argument that it's based on democratic process? could you comment? i think the issue is still politically divisive in japan. decision toabinet allow legal changes to reinterpret the standing article nine is announced. changes does that law will be legislated into ? the debate about that will not even start until next april. the process even if you ask some of the people who are feeling that the changes are necessary, there are some short-circuits that have been done. prime minister abe came up with this advisory commission to mid-may and he clearly says he's not in a hurry to do it. lo and behold he just decided to do this in a cabinet decision within a month. that made it even more politically divisive for the government to handle this. thate hand, if you see from outside of japan where you youally -- the only thing see is sporadic reporting of how for is done, if you recall the cabinet decision the

there has to be an acknowledgment by south korea that the problem did not start with abe. anyone who has worked with these issues, it is cyclical. so that we need to correct a lot of the misperceptions and mischaracterizations. when south korea took two hours of a summit with noda and spent a lot of time talking about comfort women, that is a mis-prioritization of issues. some in seoul need to correct when people make a mischaracterization. that is not correct. that is a falsehood. and also, i think in seoul a need for realization that will -- they will never have 100% compliance. there were always be someone in japan who says something inflammatory. when the president said as long as there are some politicians in japan who say heinous things are incorrect things, we will have problems. you are never going to be able to control 100% of the population from saying some. as i mentioned before if you can get behind the scenes discussions between the two countries where seoul identifies what it wants, what are the words, what are the examples that they want so that japan can se

the two have not held talks since abe took power. more than half said a japan china summit is needed. 11% said there is no need. more than 60% said they welcomed japan's decision last week to impose more sanctions on russia after the downing of a malaysia airlines jet. 28% said they disapprove of the action. it will be his first visit in five years. he will spend seven days in japan. he will deliver lechl turs on international relations in tokyo and osaka. the former president has been to japan six times since leaving office. he was forced to cancel last year for health reasons. he is 91 years old. chinese leaders have criticized his previous trips to japan. they express concern that he might promote taiwanese independence. they haven't reacted to news of the upcoming trip. officials have stepped in to help. >> there are so many species that are unique to these islands, that it's been called the galapagos of the orient. there are almost 600 species of animals and plants here that can't be found anywhere else in the world. snails are

shinzo abe has confirmed he will reshuffle his cabinet on september 3rd. he has had the same lineup since he launched has government in 2012. abe made the announcement on tuesday at a meeting of executives of the governing liberal democratic party. he said he want the change in order to launch the second chapter of his administration. he want the ministers to tackle national security and revive regional economies. the big focus of the reshuffle is the fate of ldp secretary general shigeru ishiba. abe is expected to ask him to assume a new cabinet post in charge of national security legislation that will allow japan to exercise its right to collective self-defense. ishiba has suggested he will decline the offer and ask to retain his current post. >>> u.s. military commanders are concerned about a series of near messes involving chinese fighter jets. they say the pilots are flying too close to u.s. planes over the south china sea, so they'll sit down with chinese military officials to try to establish some rules of behavior. the talks will take place on tues

year, the day after christmas, prime minister abe made a surprising visit.it took many koreans, it was kamikaze visit by the prime minister, which shocked many countries. it was an unpleasant surprise to the united states as well. a very fatal blow to the perception of sincerity by the koreans. again, recently japanese government came out with an idea the we should review admission of the mistakes and made an apology. statement, thee chief cabinet secretary. he was a deputy prime minister and the leader of the democratic hardy. he was the government's top spokesman. we wonder why japan, at this time, has to review this statement. not have started in the first place. it gave the impression japan was trying to see if the legitimacy wrong. actuality was thatost important thing is through the review itself, japanese government, abe government, has reconfirmed the content of the gulf corner statement. that is an important aspect of this drama. i want to tell my japanese friends and japanese government that comfort women issue, the sex slave issue, wartime sex sla

comment on items 13 ab? seeing none, public comment is closed. commissioner antonini >> yeah. i have some questions for staff. in regards to some of points revised earlier. my understanding from reading the report what happens is in the wet years the water will be allowed to accommodate to keep us above the level needed for supply of the different participants who use the ac what but in dry years urging the surplus the city and county will take you forget the figure 6.9 million gallons per day up to that amount to supplement the waters from the hetch hetchy am i correct >> yes, sir. this is a project to provide additional dry year water supply. >> but it sounds like based on what i'm reading there are mitigations to keep the ac what at a level to supply the needs for example, of the cemetery and the golf course. >> that's dealt with in the mitigation measure 14 a 6 that is extremely detailed and technical but the bottom line if the puc through it's monitoring predicts an adverse effect to the neighboring wel

item 7 for case c alters 3463, 6 street request for conditional use authorization, item 8 ab at 5421 geary boulevard request for discretionary review authorization and a request for variances. i do have one speaker card for item 7. to the member of the public wishing to speak to item 7 ma'am, we'll pull that off consent if you wish to talk about that >> very good commissioners items 8 ab. >> is there any public comment on items 8 ab seeing none, public comment is closed. >> commissioner antonini. >> move to are approve item 8 a. >> on that motion to approve commissioner antonini. commissioner johnson. commissioner moore. commissioner sugaya. commissioner fong. and commissioner president wu. so moved, commissioners, that motion passes unanimously 6 to zero the zoning administrator will say and the closed session to the variance clearance >> very good. >> commissioners, if we may go back to the continuous calendar for the request request on mason street. >> thank you to continue the variance on 25 mason street until november 18th and the public hearing remains open. >> commissioners it

the first abe administration agreed with china's then-president, hu jintao, t establish that kind of mechasm for maritime communications, unfortunately, our discussio stopped two years ago. we will keep urging china to work on this. >> reporter: what are the prospects? >> translator: i believe the chinese have the same intent that we do, unfortunatel say japan and china have problems involving the senka islands. i don't think this single is should stand in the wa efforts to establish a hotli. a co ta so we will keep letting the chinese >> reporter: t much. >>> it's time now for a check the robert speta. good morning. you have been tracking a storm in southern japan. what's happening with ? >> yes, catherine. we have been seeing out here this storm pushing over the southern japanese islands an actually, right now the cent of circulation very close to okinawa, what we have been seeing is that wind field extending out well to the ea and toward the west, we also have been seeing winds as hi as 120 kilometers per hour o here to kagoshima and heavy rainfalls across much of area. i want to

prime minister shinzo abe announced plans four months ago re nuclear power generation. the nuclear story in japan is compromised because institutions have grown too close. the government is tied to the nuclear industry, tepco spends money on advertising and media outlets don't want those avenues to go away. >> advertising budgets is one of the most important ways that industries exert pressure on the media in japan. electricity companies are involved in this. industry advertising budget is about $70 billion each year. tepco spends $20 billion on advertising alone. media outlets are concerned about this funding. >> translation: japan's nuclear energy industry is controlled by the i.a.e.a. the experts and journalists under the control of i.a.e.a. writes articles and reports. they aim to restart the nuclear power plants which are not operating. this is the mission that the specialists have been given by the government. to achieve this, it's better that the true facts about the effects of the accident don't exist. >> there's a lot of money to be lost. most people at the top

prime minister abe aims to resolve the issues. he atebded the opening a ceremonies of the sochi winter olympic games. they agreed on putin's visit to japan. russia's ties with the west deteriorated rapidly following the downing of the malasian passenger jet. the visit to japan is going remain unchanged for putin. >> japan will make a decision that takes in to account its national interests. professor is an expert on rush politi politics, he said that it's in the russian leader's interests to strengthen ties with japan. >> from russia's point of view, japan is a part of this strategy, but it has not adopted tough sanctions, i think russia is probably expecting japan to obtain a somewhat neutral attitude in this regard. it was our intention -- so, in a way russia is promoting japan preparations for the next step. japan has been limited to restricting entry of more than 20 russians in to japan. observers say that it would not cause much damage to either of the countries. they have to confirm the date of the visit. -- >> takes in to a

abe also plans to host a private dinner for modi in kyoto before the summit. modi is keen to revitalize the indian economy after its worst growth in a decade. >> modi views japan as a key business partner for his country. he expressed willingness to improve india's business environment by easing regulations to encourage japan to invest more. india is increasingly concerned about china exerting greater influence in the asia-pacific region. india held a joint naval exercise with japan and the u.s. in late july. and security is likely to be high on the agenda when modi meets abe. >> modi said he is hoping to obtain concrete cooperation for a nuclear energy pact that will allow india to use japanese technology, and modi also wants to discuss a planned high-speed train network for india. >>> medical specialists gathered in bangkok on friday to discuss ways to regulate surrogate births. thailand does not have any laws on commercial surrogacy. the thai authorities are working on a draft bill that would ban commercial surrogacy and brokerage services. the chairperson

i look back and think back on the past year, danny russell from july of 2013, before prime minister abe visited yasir cooney -- visited thatuni talked about problems be dealt with in a peaceful and thoughtful way. fore see the preparations president obama bringing president part and president abe together at the hague, there is an effort that creates conditions necessary for that including occur, essentially laying the groundwork for the japanese respectnt commitment to the statements. this brings me to another point. in order to stabilize the relationship among i think the u.s. will continue to be involved. but one of the tasks on the u.s. side will be to tried to hold both japan and south korea to a non-revisionist approach. for japan, it is about history. for korea, it will end up being 1965 maintaining the normalization treaty as the basis for moving forward in the relationship. it is going to be very challenging. the u.s. is engaged and involved to a great degree. point is i have friends who look at the japan-south korea relationship and say the best we can do is just to manage it.

abe has gone out there to show him around. move for the japanese prime minister. >> they are very close. only three people that he follows and the renter modi -- is one of them. there is a formal summit coming up tonight in tokyo. what can we expect from that? >> they are getting down to the official business today. there are two main items on the agenda. one will be the security relationship and then, obviously, the business relationship. in terms of security, they both in the seas with china. there are concerns that they have and they will probably agree to stick together to manage exercises and have foreign and defense officials talk together more frequently. on the business side, there were reports that abe will promise a target of doubling private sector investment into india over the next five years. >> thank you so much for joining us. the latest on that visit to japan by modi. time for a look at some other stories we are following for you. >> the supplier at the center of the tainted meat scandal that affected mcdonald

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. >>> investors around the world have been watching closely to see if prime minister shinzo abe can live up to his promise of bringing japan back. the man largely responsible for jump starting the economy and fulfilling that promise is with us today. ai uchida joins us from the business desk. >> akita amari is the one tasked with making abe nommics work and those around him have said this is japan's last chance for the economy. we have seen the stock market grow in the last 18 months and corporate earnings grow. but, gdp in the april to june quarter fell largely because of the consumption tax hike. amari has been watching it all play out. a business magazine says he has what it takes to deal with what's ahead. it has chosen him as one of the top 50 most influential leaders in the world. he is juggling economic reforms including cutting the corporate tax to overhauling social security to negotiations to reach a free-trade pact with asia-pacific nations. minister amari thank you for joining us. for our viewers watching we are going to be switching to simultaneous translation now. >> transl

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there has to be an acknowledgment by south korea that the problem did not start with abe. anyone who has worked with these issues, it is cyclical. so that we need to correct a lot of the misperceptions and mischaracterizations. when south korea took two hours of a summit with noda and spent a lot of time talking about comfort women, that is a mis-prioritization of issues. some in seoul need to correct when people make a mischaracterization. that is not correct. that is a falsehood. and also, i think in seoul a need for realization that will -- they will never have 100% compliance. there were always be someone in japan who says something inflammatory. when the president said as long as there are some politicians in japan who say heinous things are incorrect things, we will have problems. you are never going to be able to control 100% of the population from saying some. -- saying something. as i mentioned before if you can get behind the scenes discussions between the two countries where seoul identifies what it wants, what are the words, what are the examples that they want

but some important measures, ab enomics, still has a way to go. and he joins us from tokyo -- andy joins us from tokyo. tell us about abenomics and how far abe still needs to go. >> it is interesting are now. is whole plan of abenomics to come in and reflect the company after 15 years or more of deflation and economic drift. and he is getting that. he is getting what he wished for . pass inn the fastest years. , seeinglem is now that the rising prices, income not going up, and exports. with the weaker yen introduced has notary policy, this given exports the boost we had hoped. it is hurting the cost line of many japanese companies. so it is kind of a double-edged sword at the moment, mr. of it -- mr. abe. >> a lot of the perception of the weaker yen is that it would stoke export demand and job start the economy in japan. we have not seen that. what are the indications? l exactly. exactly. they are making more money. the profit line has gone up a bit. the volume is not rising. that is the issue. companies have a lot to do themselves a turnaround si

others say it points to failures of abe-nomics. which camp are you in? >> abe-nomics is sailing. the inflation rate, of course, is over 3%. if they were smart, they would leave the field. there's about two percentage points of a consumption tax in there. and the inflationary excludeing that, one of three quarters percent a few months ago, entirely because of import pricing increases which resulted entirely because of devaluation. for the last year, there's been no change in the exchange rate. as a result, import prices are level and cpi excludeing the effect of import prices is going to drift back. >> okay. i see you're pretty skeptical of abe-nomics. i want to play devil's advocate here. cut him some slack. abe is shooting the third era in business about structural reforms. this is not going to take effect for a couple of years. maybe this won't even be visible for another two or three years. >> abe's structural reforms are making the basic problem of japan worse. japan's exports share of world markets has come down by half over the last 20 years. the main reason for this is tha

abe has been building a personal relationship with russian president vladimir putin. putin is scheduled to visit japan in the autumn, but some government officials believe the trip will have to be postponed. others believe they should work on improving ties. earlier this month, japan and other group of seven countries imposed additional sanctions on russia over the situation in ukraine. in response, senior officials in moscow postponed talks with their japanese counterparts scheduled for later this month. russian officials have reacted sharply to japan's protest. a foreign ministry spokesperson said the islands legally belong to russia, and russians can decide where to hold their own military drills. the spokesperson said the drills are routine and not aimed at japan, so the country has nothing to worry about. >>> manufacturers in china have taken off. squl this has something in common with the beautiful gang. the people here are playing the world's most popular sport, soccer. kpept their version is a lot bouncier. the object of the game is the same. to score goals. b

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a panel of experts is discussing how to achieve abe's goal. it is being discussed by representatives from corporate management and labor sectors. they will discuss legislation and strategies. officials plan to submit a bill later this year. companies will likely be encouraged to set numerical targets for training positions. >> translator: it's important that the law doesn't put a heavy burden on each company. these concerns should be considered when the bill is written up. >>> the government surveyed about 4,000 firms nationwide in 2011. it found the proportion of women in management was only 6.8%. >>> computers and other modern >>> it's time now for a check of the weather with mai shoji. good morning. you have been tracking a typhoon headed toward southwestern japan. people there are feeling its effects. what's the latest? >> yes, good morning, catherine. we are tracking typhoon now off of okinawa. it has passed over the island. let me go straight to a video to show you the conditions there. this is coming off the islands during the evening h

. >> an ab workout to carry the balloons around. >> this is her warm up, the trend mill abs warmup, doesf a knee and leg raise, squats, yeah, she has the built in weights. >> in good shape. can't blame her. >> legitimate workouts. the side shuffle is hard. >> that's tough. >> leg lifts are hard. >> with the treadmill going? that's going to dump people on their face. and the kicks. >> i can't focus. there's -- it's so distracting. >> it is, it is -- yeah. i'm sure some people may watch the video not for the workout. >>> this guy hears an amber alert, and he's the suspect. >> oh, no! >> see it next "right this minute." zblmpl >> and still to come, a dude proves he's a tough guy giving himself stitches. >> at one point, he's like, oh, this needle is not sharp enough. this is terrible. >> the story behind mr. machoman's self-operation. >>> plus, a squirrel chows down on nuts, but see what gets him going nuts. >> are you serious. exhibitionist. >>> okay, so my dad thinks he' mach and he got c so now he's g himself stitches. >> you heard that right. little girl says my dad is going to give him

had rushed out to buy big ticket items such as cars and home appliances before prime minister shinzo abe hiked the consumption tax from 5% to 8%. but consumer spending appetite has since faded. as for capital investment, that dropped 2.5%. business managers have tightened their budgets after upgrading their computer systems. those moves came after microsoft stopped supporting its windows xp operating system. >>> japan's economic revitalization minister remains optimistic. akira amari said the contraction is within a normal range. he compared it to the time when japan raised the consumption tax in the past. >> translator: some of the aftereffects of the tax hikes are lingering but they're gradually receding. we're expecting the economy to continue to recover moderately. we think our economic policy measures are working. >> amari said his upbeat assessment is based on recent improvements in consumer confidence and business investment. >>> store managers across japan are wondering when their customers will come back. some worry that could take a while. more from nhk world's kyoko fujita. >>