culture but japan town taught me about japan town and on christmas day i danced in japan i never danced so japan town really taught me what japanese are and more importantly, they teach me the sense of community. we lost that for years but the community was rebuilt after the 2011 the earthquake hit japan many survivors were deeply getting involved in the community to teach when the earthquake hit you have to go up to the hill so i was in a community but if you're not in a community you couldn't survive. but i already knew the importance of the community because of japan town. so i really appreciate japan town and city of san francisco and the united states that kept the importance of our culture. and i really want to appreciate my appreciation for the japan town people who are getting community together. really, really difficult and then i just really amazed by their patience and mercy it's unbelievable. so this j h s is a really town community and friends really encourage more people to engage in community and people from japan really, really benefit from it. thank you very much >> tha

it's rich in interpretation but in focusing back on japan town as the oldest continuously occupied japan town in the united states. this holds a rich array of cultural practice is of historic significance. i hope you'll join we to recognize japan in the historic study and will benefit from the efforts that grow out of that. thank you very much >> thank you. thank you, don in a. i'm with the planning staff and leading into the cultureal strategy. this is the first document in san francisco to focus specifically on how to promote a heritage. the vision is it japan it up will thrive as a economically rich neighborhood for japanese-american communities to come. some highlights the process as you know many years in the making building up previous areas for the japan town community plan. and this effort is a collaboration between the community, the planning department and others. we gave an introduction in july and received a lot of positive feedback and have received 23 letters of support from residents and property owns and business owners and nonprofit churches a wide variety of people invo

what statement do you want to see these olympics coming to japan make about japan? what do you want to the world to know about japan and make them understand and appreciate in the second decade of this century? >> ( translated ): in 1964 we hosted the tokyo olympics. back then i was only 10 years old and as a small boy i was really excited because many wonderful athletes from throughout the world are coming to japan and the japanese did a very good job so i was really excited and we were exposed to this olympic spirit and from the following year the japanese younger generation started to go abroad as teachers of gymnastics and other areas in order to have exposure to the global economy and the global community. and in the 2020 olympic games, the olympic spirit is something that we would like to see fully disseminated throughout the world. we are going to have vice president this activity much more than the level of the activity that we had in 1964. sports for tomorrow is the name of the plan that we are going to start implementing. that means we are going to send a

san francisco japan town is the oldest japan town in the united states over 1 hundred years old. it's an important community in the western addition i have my own histories the cherry bloom and the shopping and in my youth bowling. it's so. important we protect the cultural and economic communities of japan town. we've worked together with the assistance of san francisco plans department and presentation i was to make sure we keep the japan town in san francisco. keeping in mind of what happened to our japanese-americans in san francisco it's important we protect this jeweler by endorsing this resolution. i offer high full support of this resolution. thank you >> i'm going to call a couple names and come on up (calling names) whoever is ready. >> good afternoon, commissioners i'm and my family are long term residents. my family owned a shop in japan town. we've been here in the community for 50 years. i'm here to ask for your support. the dhs is 50 years of dialog from business and property owners and community organizations and neighbors and planning department staff. it's a exp

i'm a property owner in japan town. i also am a businesswoman required but still doing business and i also am on the board of several nonprofits in japan town area and have long been a long term volunteer. by you represent myself today is a property owner and a citizen of this city i was born here. san francisco is a very special place. it's already been a place of neighborhoods and ethnic histories what we we really need to look at what we're doing. i think j h s is a good document to go forward to be able to protect and help the growth of and to be able to sustain japan town. so everyone else has elegantly given their reasons those are mine >> thank you very much. >> thank you. >> hello commissioners and wanting harassing. i'm here today, i'm representing supervisor breed i'm here aid. and supervisor breed couldn't make it here so she sent me to read some of her thoughts. san francisco japan town is the oldest japan town in the united states and only 3 left in the country. it's a very important community with its uniq

. >> good afternoon, commissioners i'm the representative to the japan town organization committee. it's a japanese-american federation. i joined this process because my minister was i think he was the president of the committee at that time, he got this letter and when i saw it i leaped. i said wow, i need to get involved by the way, i didn't want a plan that was demerol detrimental to future japan it up. first of all, i want to thank many people involving the commission. because which this came to the commission the commission realized it was a plan that the community really didn't agree b upon and the community really didn't have a chance to respond to the original plan of japan town. so with the community process it took much long-range than anticipated i think it was about 4 years. we were told and thanks to director ram he allowed us enough f t e's to carry on. i want to thank all the planners that were part of this and paul was - he's made this so the community can grasp. steve really become very valuable to us even in the 11 hour so steve earned his keep and shelly thank you

japan. the government estimates all nuclear waste in the country will fill 25,000 cylinders. the waste inside them is so highly radioactive, it would kill a person within 20 seconds of exposure and would take tens of thousands of years for its toxicity to subside. the government plans to encase each cylinder in cement and bury them some 300 meters underground. but japanese scientists warn it would be difficult to find an appropriate location, because japanese is so prone to earthquakes and volcanic activity. out of lack of a better alternative, the ministry is suggesting putting the waste underground and retrieving it if concerns later arise about its safety, or if technology is developed to reduce its toxicity. >>> the u.s. secretary of state is urging the u.n. security council to make sure syria will be held accountable if it does not give up its chemical weapons. john kerry is asking for a binding resolution to get the syrian government to follow through on its pledge. >> the security cou

many local governments want to invite the investment from japan. they want to send economic delegations to japan but they cannot do so until the atmosphere improves in china. both sides must somehow, find a way to come up with a win-win solution. >> the professor says a brief encounter between the leaders of japan and china as the g-20 summitt can signal a falling of frosty relations and he says he'll be keeping a close eye on how the leaders interact at the apex summitt scheduled to take place in bali next month. nhk world, tokyo. >>> here's a brief look at your market figures. >>> for one irishman in japan, the statistic of suicide became personal when a friend killed herself so he decided to take action. >> i dream of a war, a war on suicide. but i don't even know who is the enemy. >> saving 10,000 people from suicide each year reducing the total number of deaths by a third, that is the goal and the message of an award-winning documentary that delves into the deep-seeded problem of suicide in japan drawing on interviews with almost 100 people. t

ambassador to japan.me her to lovely family, whom i have had the privilege of knowing. her husband, edward sloshed berg, and two of her children are here, one of whom went to school with my daughter, and john and rose are in california, shriver, andm others joining me here today. father,o sure that her mother, and extended relatives are looking down on this hearing. i should also note that i am extremely impressed that caroline made it to this hearing today. chairman, just this past weekend, she and her daughter swam the hudson river to raise money for the leukemia and lymphoma society. swim fromree-mile nyack to sleepy hollow, mr. chairman. i am not sure either of us could have accomplished that. and amazing feat. but back to the introduction. caroline kennedy was educated in new york and massachusetts and thended the academy of sacred heart. she earned a bachelor of arts at harvard university, her jd from columbia law school, graduating in the top 10% of her class. from there, she embarked on a long and

envoy to japan. this is the first time she's publicly discussed policies on japan. in 1978, she visited hiroshima with her uncle, the late senator edward kennedy. she said she would think of no other country she'd rather serve than japan. they said the u.s. alliance is the cornerstone of peace, stability and prosperity in asia and members of the juried to facilitate active youth exchanges. >> i'll work to increase exchanges between american, japanese students scholars and citizens so future generation also understand and bind our nations closer. >> if approved by the senate, kennedy, the first woman to become ambassador to japan as early as next month. >>> russian president said he doesn't know if it will be successful but hoping the plan will work out. russian and u.s. officials reached and agreement last week on collecting and disposing of the syrian stockpile. russian leaders propose the plan to avoid that. >> translator: i can't be 100% certain we can bring it to an end but what seen in the past few days has given us confidence that it will be accomplished 12345

the japan community is legion. i look forward to see us study the land mark of not just physical landmarks but also buildings of significant importance. thank you and i'll be around for questions >> thank you very much. if i might real quick we have a hard stop at the 4:30 but we have 10 hard cards. if my commissioners don't mind we'll go to public comment >> i was going to get to a presentation by why don't we come back. i would like the phone calls in the building who traffic to come up. we have 3 minutes can we shorten that i would like to hear from everybody is one minute okay? >> okay one minute. i'm to call out names (calling names) >> i'm make this real fast. i'm the job representative to the japan town committee. it's the japanese organization. i want to thank the planning commission and a director ram and that a all others. i was pleasantly surprised to refer that back >> it's 30 seconds. >> okay. let's do 90 seconds i know it's odd let's just do that. i'm very surprised this plan is preceding as others ha

japan dubbed this process hands-on search. it plans to install the equipment at a school in tokyo for people with special needs. the company will study how visually impaired children make internet searches. it plans to establish a special website that will provide a list of objects children are particularly curious about. currently only about 100 three-d data models are on the internet and they plan to ask companies and other organizations to provide more. japanese firms are starting to use 3-d printers as an easy means to produce pilot versions of their new products. yahoo! will study how to apply the technology to educational purposes. >>> here are the latest market figures. >>> united nations inspectors have handed in a long-awaited report op the use of the chemical weapons in syria. they found what they called clear and convincing evidence that such weapons were used to attack civilians. secretary ban ki-moon said the report makes for chilling reading. >> chemical weapons were used on a relatively large scale. this was a g

plant in north eastern japan are active. they just completed a second survey at the plant. nra commissioner was speaking to reporters after a two-day survey at the plant. the panel investigated a crossing section of a trench dug by the operator. nra officials compiled a report in number based on the first survey made two months earlier. they said the faults appeared to be active. they maintain the faults are not active. the utility has been conduct their own additional survey. >> emerging economic powers struggling with poverty. emboldened citizens demanding democracy and the threat of violence and the push for peace and the shadow of conflict. news and insight on south and southeast asia. every weekday live from bangkok only on "newsline." >> territory yell tensions between the philippines and china are heating up. philippine officials have accused china of building structures on the disputed scar borrow shore in the south china sea. the spokesperson said on wednesday that there is nothing to be sorry about. >> translator:

japan protested over the visit. since his visit, more japanese have joined demonstrations in the district. tokyo won the bid to host the 2020 summer games. oh had a sense of amazement when he saw it, especially since the olympics bring together people of different nationalities and ethnicities. >> translator: i wonder why people took part in the rally, when others celebrated tokyo's successful bid. i also wonder what people around the world will think of it. >> reporter: oh's concerns about worsening relations prompted him to participate in a japan-south korea festival last weekend in tokyo. about 50,000 people attended the cultural exchange. >> translator: bilateral ties will become even chillier if there are no exchanges. i welcome this kind of event. >> reporter: oh demonstrated a south korean dish for the opening ceremony. >> translator: this is a south korean dish which is rice mixed with seasoned vegetables. it's very popular in japan. the bowl contains enough for 100 servings. the dish will symbolize the mixi

swept across central japan. on top of that we have a storm system that's coming our way. this is the tropical storm toraji. it has picked up a pace a little bit but still at a snail's pace. it will be bringing stormy conditions across okinawa with heavy downpours as well as thunderstorms. it is likely to pack up gusts of 126 kilometer per hour as it approaches mainland japan picking up the waves as much as four meters high. very rough sea conditions. not only directly hitting the islands but also already pulling the energy from the humid flow of the moisture from pacific and the east china sea energizing this stationary boundary that's formed over the sea of japan across much of this country. and that is bringing a deluge of rainfall. let me show you video from key oego prefecture yesterday. people across japan faced heavy rains and thunderstorms yesterday from this front. officials issued rain and flood warningings all over. nearly 80 millimeters of rain fell in just one hour affecting public transportation and

but the good news is that it's not going to make landfall in mainland japan. temperatures are as follows, 23 in seoul. 22 in beijing. and very chilly in ulan bator, only 11 degrees for the high, and only minus 2 degrees for the low. right in the american continent looking dry across the east but there's a lot going on across the northwest. thundershowers are happening across the central plains and central canada, but this one is going to be diminishing as we go in to tuesday. more of the concern is going to be the northwest. a strong low combined with very cool air is moving into the northwest. triggering lowering temperatures and also wet and windy conditions. and this one is dumping quite heavy snow fall in the northern rockies on wednesday and thursday. wintersome conditions are likely. temperatures are as follows. very chilly for this time of year in vancouver. as well as seattle. warm in los angeles at 28 degrees for you. and pleasant in washington, d.c. as well as new york city on tuesday. finally, in europe, gorgeous weather for the western continent an

protesters across the country staged anti-japan rallies.r the past year chinese commanders have sent more than 200 ships into japanese waters off the senkakus. eight ships were spotted in the area for several hours on tuesday. >>> on sunday, two chinese bomber aircraft flew in the air space between japan's main island. a chinese military drone was spotted on monday. japanese leaders are holding out hope for dialogue. prime minister shinzo abe had a brief meeting with jinping in friday's g-20 summit. it was the first time they had talked one-on-one since each took office. a chinese ministry spokesman says beijing will continue to send ships and planes to the area. >> translator: japan has been irresponsibly criticizing chinese activities. we express strong dissatisfaction. >> he says that japan illegally purchased the islands and that china will continue to take effective action to defend its sovereignty over them. >>> despite the tensions between their government, some japanese and chinese people are trying to strengthen relations and they'

so i hope we're stronger and will allow japan town to prosper for this and future generations. in fact, i think it's the most important thing we have a basis we are cognizant and i urge you to adopt the dhs. thank you >> good afternoon, commissioners and director ram. i'm karen. i'm a member of the japan town organizing committee i've been co-chair of the land use and built form committee and i've served on all the committees. you'll heard about our process it's been collaborative it's been open and it's been arduous. i mean, we get in their we fight, we try to educate he each other and work together we check things we go over and over wus we have a process but a it's produced a good document. the same thing goes for the resolutions that are before you. we worked on those we thought about the language what was included and not included and it's very disturbing that yesterday we had a member of our committee blind sided us what a proposed amendment. the preservation system handled it embrace fully but they recognized it's not a part of our process and it could have been. so i un

so for japan. prioritizing it is a new approach. i asked ian bremmer, a political scientist, what he thought of the speech. >> more proactive diplomatic voice from japan to uphold international norms and to be accountable and to also try to provide and support peace through humanitarian efforts, i think is very welcome. the japanese do a better job of infrastructure than anyone in the world. their health care system is incredibly impressive. and their ability to respond to crisis is there. so i think this is an appropriate role for japan to have. >> the observers i have spoken to said they will follow closely how mr. abe's foreign policies will be implemented. >> and that was miki ebara in new york. >>> the foreign ministers of japan and south korea have met to discuss issues past and president. fumeio kishida and byung-se got together in new york. >> translator: we were able to talk frankly about how to improve the relationship between japan and south korea. >> kishida referred to a number of rulings. he said the issue has already

/japan alliance is one of the cornerstones not just of japan's and america's security but also a cornerstone for peace and security around the world. >> abe said he would like to express his sincere respect to the u.s. for shouldering the huge responsibility of confronting inhumane behavior. >>> russian leaders have enjoyed friendly relations for years with their allies in syria. russian officials say the foreign ministers from the two countries will meet on monday in moscow. sergey lavrov is expected to welcome wa lid al-moualem. who also serves as deputy minister in the government of bashar al assad. they'll meet on the same day that member ps of the u.s. congress return from their summer recess. the lawmakers could vote as early as monday on a resolution approving military action. the japanese and russian leaders met ahead of the summit. shinzo abe and vladimir putin agreed their foreign and defense ministers would hold security talks in tokyo, something diplomats call a two plus two. >> translator: russia's foreign and defense ministers will visit japan early in november under prime mini

envoy to japan. this is the first time she's publicly discussed policies on japan. in 1978, she visited hiroshima with her uncle, the late senator edward kennedy. she said she would think of no other country she'd rather serve than japan. she said the u.s. alliance with japan remains the cornerstone of peace, stability, and prosperity in asia. she pledged to activate youth exchanges. >> i'll work to increase exchanges between american, japanese students scholars and citizens so future generation also understand and bind our nations closer. >> if approved by the senate, kennedy would be the first woman to become ambassador to japan as early as next month. >>> time for the latest in business news. investors were surprised at fed chairman ben bernanke is not changing his stance on monetary policy but the head of the international monetary fund was unphased. good morning. tell us more about that. >> not only was she unphased. she agrees with him. christine lagarde said the u.s. federal reserve decision to maintain stimulus measures is in line with her organization's sta

people from the town are scattered throughout japan. here's their story. >> reporter: he's 65 years old. he's lived in this building for more than two years. >> reporter: this former high school in kazo city near tokyo is the last evacuation center still housing disaster survivors. about 100 people live here. their average age is 70. this community leader has no income apart from his pension. the operator of the fukushima plant gave him just nine months' worth of compensation. only part of the 2 1/2 years' worth he's been promised. he's unsure about his future and worried about his elderly neighbors. many of them have to buy boxed meals. they can't cook for lack of proper facilities. they sleep in classrooms divided by cardboard walls. >> translator: it's really quite a miserable existence. i've been wondering why we've had to live like this, and for so long. >> reporter: their hometown is a few kilometers away from fukushima daiichi. 1,400 residents evacuated to the former school right after the disaster. they may never see their homes

some people called miyazaki the walt disney of japan. the wind rises is now competing at the venice film festival. >> translator: his retirement will be a big loss for the international film industry. i hope he will change his mind. >> the venice festival judges in 2005 awarded miyazaki an honorary golden lion, he was the first japanese director to win the award. miyazaki pioneered a style of animation that influenced many of his peers. >> miyazaki's 2001 production spirited away won him an oscar and became japan's highest grossing pim of all time. he has three other films on the top ten list. visitors at the museum in tokyo expressed disappointment at miyazaki's announcement. >> translator: i'm so sad. >> translator: i wanted my children to see more of his productions. it's too bad he's retiring. >> fans flocked to buy or rent copies of miyazaki's movies. officials from a major rental chain said fames have been borrowed more than 22 million times. >> quite a rough start here across japan in regards to whether we have had the very heavy

it brought torrential rain to western japan is now battering eastern japan. this is a scene from shibuya near our studio. railway services have been disrupted and there are warnings of possible landslides as well as swollen rivers. you can see the cloud coverage move pg all the way up towards the north. we do have that low pressure system sitting south of the region. this was tropical storm toragy that we've been monitoring. now a low pressure system but still feeding low pressure to the area. we do have another system over hokkaido which is pulling the cold front. lots of thunderstorms are happening across the area. and due to the combination of the upper cold air and the surface temperature still summer-like, this is the typical picture. and that's going to be found throughout the day today. about 50 millimeters of rainfall will be found just in an hour, sudden downburst of showers as well as sudden flooding, hail, thunderstorms, even tornadic activity cannot be ruled out again today especially across the kanto region. but the western areas of japan are loo

. >>> japan's prime minister has stepped into the spotlight at the u.n. general assembly to weigh in on some of the world's most pressing foreign policy challenges. shinzo abe gave his take on the situation in syria and the threat posed by north korea. we have details. >> reporter: like many leaders, prime minister abe took up the prolonged turmoil in syria. he started his speech condemning the chemical weapons attack against civilians in the country. he said the japanese government strongly supports efforts of the international community to destroy the stockpiles of these weapons. abe also promised more humanitarian support for syrians inside and outside of the country. >> translator: i would like to announce that the government of japan will newly provide additional humanitarian assistance to syria and surrounding countries of approximately 60 million u.s. dollars and implemented right away. >> reporter: abe also brought up japan's neighbor, north korea which he said remains as a threat to the region. he expressed strong resentment over north korea's nu

japan's recovery he said will inspire global growth. representatives from russia spoke up in support. finance minster accompanied abe in explaining the mid-term fiscal plan. >> translator: prime minister abe and i explainedia pan's plan to rebuild the fiscal health. i think they understand because we didn't receive questions on that topic. >> he later mentioned a proposed increase in the consumption tax. he said abe will study the data and decide on the hike in early october. leaders discussed the state of the global economy. they have seen currencies plunge in emerging countries like india and brazil on speculation the u.s. can in easy money policy. u.s. stock prices ended slightly higher on thursday on improving economic conditions. gains were capped ahead of a jobs report due later today. the dow jones average gained six points to end at 14,937. meanwhile the nasdaq put on more than a quarter of a percent, ending at 3,658. for more on japanese markets, let's go to eileen lee at the tokyo stock exchange. we have had a busy week and th