one of them is daiichi life insurance. nhk has learned that the insurer decided to open a representative office in the cambodian capital phnom penh. after gaining a license to do business there. daiichi executives are believed to have made the decision because cambodia is a southeast asian country with steady economic growth and a young population. life insurance products weren't even availilable there u until years ago. japanesese life insurers have bn looking overseas. life insurers in japan have also been affected by the start of a negative interest rate policy in february by the country's central bank. >>> here's a look at some of the other business stories we're following. japanese parcel delivery firm yamamoto transport i is teamingp with dena in a trial using self-driving cars. executives say the vehicles will run from next march. they'll be fitted with storage lockers. >>> a traditiononal japanese ho spring has opened in the heart of tokyo. the luxury old style hotel occupies a new building. it has 84 mat rooms and

. >>> japan's nuclear regulator has urged the operator of the fukushima daiichi plplant to ta measurures. they must inject water into the buildings to cool melted fuel. and about 60,000 tons of the water is pooling in the basement of the reactor buildings. the regulation authority urged the company to study measures on lowering the amount of water and radiation levels. the authority proposed two measures. one is building more tanks to store the water and the other is treating the water with a system that filters out radioactive material. and then recirculating it in the cooling sysystem. tepco will report on the results of its study at a meeting next month at the earliest. >>> a japanese court has sentenced a south korean man to four years in prison for an explosion last september. it happened at a tokyo shrine honoring japan's war dead. a judge at the tokyo district court said the man's actions were well thought out. no one was injured but the judge noted the man carried it out in a place where people could come and go freely. chong had pleaded guilty to detonating metal pipes at yasuku

now checkives a daiichi life insurance. nhk has learned that the insurer decided to open an office in phnom penh by the end of this month after gaining a license to do business in cambodia, the plan looks to start selling life insurance products in 2016. cambodia is a southeast asian country with steady economic growth and a young population. life insurance products weren't even available there until four years ago. japanese life insurance companies have been looking overskaes because demand is unlikely with japan's declining population. life insurance >>> 90% of eyeglass frames are even outside of japan, forcing them to innovate. and as this next report shows, some are launching their own brands. >> the famous producer of frames for eyeglasses, in may its hosted it's first city fair in about 20 years. the idea was to show off the city's long proudest tradition. >> producers and retailers must team up so they can reach out to a wider range of people and show what the city can do. >> one eyeglass frame company has gotten a n

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

>>> japanese government officials have lifted an evacuation order for near the crippled fukushima daiichi plant. over 10 tloir,000 residents are allowed to return to their homes. one area has a relatively high level of radiation. more than five years on, evacuation orders are still in place in other municipalities. nearly 90,000 people are taking shelter in and out of the prefecture. mena miso ma has to deal with a declining and aging population. young people moved out of the city following the accident. officials are also trying to mitigate public concern about the radiation, improve the transportation network, and attract commercial facilities. another key lifeline is medical care. we report on one man who is trying to provide those services to returning residents. >> reporter: hiro akimoma received permission to reopen a clinic in minamisoma's ward. it was special to him. it was his home before the disaster. moma's clinic is now making it possible for many seniors to return h home as well. they are r ructant to do soo if there'e's no access to medical care. >> translator: my doctor ret

five years on, cattle farmer has restarted on a trial basis in a town near the crippled fukushima daiichi plant. the town's government decided on test breeding to pave the way for reviving the livestock industry. >> four female calfs were delivered to his farm on wednesday. >> i'm so happy to be able to keep cattle once again. >> the test breeding will continue until the end of this year to confirm its safety. town officials say they hope farmers will resume full operations in january. >> we have to start all over again raising calfs. it will take a long time. >> a calf cost about $9,000. the town pries subsidies but farmers must shoulder half of the sum. it takes two years to ship the cattle meaning no revenues until then. let's get a check on the weather. authorities in taiwan are warning people there to prepare for stormy weather. a typhoon is heading their way. robert speta has the latest. >> this is a dangerous typhoon and people visiting taiwan need to be making the proper preparations, definitely heeding warning and evacuation advisories already in place out ahead of this. you can

pharmaceutical companies led by sumitomo and daiichi, were all up. energy related shares were down on lower oil prices. oil distributors showa and jx fell. yamaha motor fell almost 2%, recalling 900 motor bikes in india with defective parts. investors bought government bonds as safer assets. the jgb fell to another record low. following the turmoil of last week's brexit shock we've seen a positive mood this week but investors are watching the uk and eu relationship and brexit's wider economic impact. reporting from the tokyo stock exchange. >>> and moving on to other markets in the asia-pacific region in china the shanghai up by a fraction finishing at 2932 following a global rally but the gain capped on weaker than expected factory data. taiwan, gaining by almost 1%, 8738. hitting a three month high. investors cheered by the central bank's decision to cut its key interest rate. looking at the markets, the kospi index adding 0.1%. indonesia retreating down by almost 1% after hitting a one-year high on thursday. hong kong closed due to holiday. >>> ja

state minister for industry has ruled out the option of encasing nuclear reactors at the fukushima daiichi plant in a structure called a sarcophagus. it is a method that was used in chernobyl. yosuke takagi held talks with fukushima governor masao uchibori. >> translator: fukushima residents were very shocked to see the word sarcophagus. my first impression is that it is unacceptable. >> translator: the government has no intention of using such an option. >> takagi said completing the decommissioning process is the top priority, and the government's policy is to stand by the people of fukushima. on wednesday, the government body in charge of planning the process released its latest report. for the first time the report mentions the option of locking in radioactive materials with a concrete structure as was done at the chernobyl nuclear plant. officials said they remain committed to removing fuel from the reactors that had meltdowns in the march 2011 accident. >>> a court in okinawa prefecture, southern japan, has handed down a prison sentence to a u.s. sailor found guilty of sexual assault

this expert view we hear from an economist at daiichi life research institute. he's expecting to see considerable recovery in the u.s. jobs market. >> translator: a strike in may caused downturn, the end of the strike should push job numbers higher. payroll growth should reach mid 100,000 level. the corporate sector remained weak in the april/june quarter due to continueded low oil pric but personal consumption is showing signs of improvement and gdp growth will likely improve from around 1% to about 3%. >>> likely timing of u.s. rate hike, risk factors at home and abroad could cause feds to delay the long awaited move. >> translator: if you just look at the fundamentals, it seems likely the feds will raise interest rates in september, but the fed has become more sensitive to downside risks after stepping up its risk management. the risk factors on the horizon now are britain's exit from the eu and u.s. presidential election in november. the fed could go ahead with the interest rate hike in september if financial markets take an optimistic view of these risk fac

government officials have lifted an evacuation order for most of the city near the crippled fukushima daiichi nuclear plant. minamisoma is now the fifth and largest ever municipality to have the order lift since the 2011 nuclear accident. over 10,000 residents are now allowed to return to their homes. one household is still barred from returning because the area has a relatively high level of radiation. more than five years on, evacuation orders are still in place in several other municipalities in fukushima prefecture. nearly 90,000 people are taking shelter in and out of the prefecture. minamisoma has to deal with the declining and aging population. young people moved out of the city following the accident. officials are also trying to mitigate public concern about radiation and improve the transportation network and attract commercial facilities. another key necessity is medical care. nhk world reports on one man who is trying to provide that. >> reporter: this man is an orthopedist. in advance of the lifting of the evacuation order, he received permission to reopen a clinic in minamisoma'