>> the most japanese schools don't have specialist japanese as a second language teacher. in addition there are no national guidelines for teaching japanese as a second language. so many foreign students left behind without any language support in the classroom. as a consequence, some students drop out. but the japan country does not recognize them as a subject to compulsory education so they are often ignored even though they disappear from school. but now the japanese government started to take action on this long standing issue and japanese ministry of education is preparing a new national guidelines for children who learn japanese as a second language. it is urging schools to accept more of these children. but these actions have just begun and more complete measures are needed. >> professor, language development is deeply connected to a person's identity. how does being caught between two languages affect these children? >> people build their identity in relation with others. because these children cannot fully express themselves in their languages, they sometimes find

from the japanese command bunker the japanese admiral in charge of shivah saki decided to move his headquarters from this area to the south part of the island and when they were doing that they went outside of their bunker and a five and shell exploded right near them and killed them all and in doing that in losing their tactical commander on the first day of the battle the japanese did not mess around counterattack in the night which potentially could have driven the marines right off the island. i've had my moment of. let's go take a look at those eight inch. the legacy of the battle is still scattered across the sands of bases to this day the island is covered with the rusting remains of several of the big guns including the eight inch emplacements. tanks heavily fortified tow boxes and the command post. the second day of the invasion was a precarious one for the american news although they had secured two small beaches the marines still had to fight inch by inch to the airfield that bisected the island. after waiting nearly twenty hours in their boats the first battalion eighth marines atte

they sent in over twenty six hundred crack japanese imperial marines to defender. massive fortifications were built including giant pillboxes some over seven hundred feet in height ten large eight inch gun emplacements field artillery and anti-aircraft guns. the war in the pacific was commanded by two key figures general douglas macarthur and admiral nimitz. after the japanese lost the battle for guadalcanal in the south pacific macarthur and his troops focused on recapturing new guinea nimitz handled the central pacific region and plans were drawn up to send forces against the japanese strongholds in the gilbert and marshall islands groups mark no one is a u.p.s. pilot in the world war two military historian he heads the nonprofit organization history flights they're working to locate the over seventy eight thousand missing in action from the second world war right way saying here is a good deed to intelligence maps that the u.s. marine corps put together for what they called helen island which was the code name for a base sheo atoll in the tar island region and t

and i come from the japanese side.ut i've also worked on the atomic bombs as you have in great depth. and i've seen it from many perspectives. and to me, ground zero was a world war ii term. and ground zero meant ground zero, hiroshima and sagasaki and that's where we started using it. when we go back to the test of the first atomic bomb in new mexico in july 1945, for years thereafter there was a little wooden sign saying, ground zero. and we always used that word for ground zero meant hiroshima nagasaki. suddenly it had been appropriated and almost expropriated for the world trade center and the funny thing was -- i kept waiting for someone to say, ground zero? weapons of mass destruction? for someone who thinks historically, where has this word come from? and, of course, it came from world war ii and weapons of mass destruction. that terrify us, come out of that experience but no one made the connections. it was as if we had just taken it and there was no way of thinking about the original ground zero. and then you

the japanese word means holy war.they were not to protect their country and americans, general macarthur in the world were to come at the end of the war, says the holy mission is now completed. george bush and others talk about all were holy war against terrorism, and in holy wars you get into a manichean black and white world. we are in a sort of your evil, we are pure, japanese or the islamists -- we are the pure, you are the corrupt. we are the innocent, you are the evil. we are the victims, you are the victimizer, and nobody is able to understand how complex all of this is. i wrestled in the book with evil because i believe in evil. i just don't think anyone has a real monopoly on it, and i think it's a very powerful force. just mentally. >> host: you talk about the kind of elitist face, not religion but faced the city of tashi that the people believe in the conditions of strongly that they think it is -- it's almost like religion, but this idea that, you know, when we go to war in iraq, it's kind of the pinnacle

and in japanese terms it's majesty. and in that kind of environment the lower level people were simply squashed out. what was fascinating to me was how many interesting -- you know, lots of people outside the government, academics and that were writing, don't to this. i -- do this. i wrote an op-ed piece, don't go into iraq. they were doing better stuff inside the government. cia and others were saying much, the arguments were all there. they couldn't get to the top. and then what was shocking was the mainstream media in the u.s. just bought it hook, line and sinker. >> host: and the simplicity of the argument that somehow we had the magic beans of democracy, that we'll go in and remove the top, the head of of state, plant these beans, and democracy will flourish not only in iraq, but throughout the middle east. it'll just spread magically without considering the soil conditions, whether there's water, whether there's enough sunlight or air or whatever. that kind of lack of thinking through what happens after the initia

steehe russian president made the first-ever visit to the japanese islands. many call for poor intelligence on what russia was going to do. >> on the domestic front, many japanese don't seem to be tiiewi the way that kan hand izawa, the party's power broker. >> that's right. many aretill suspicious of izawa's role. kan has not stressed his rule in front of the diet. >> of course, if kan cannot regain public support, he will be forced to resign or call an election in the lower house, right? >> right. the governing coalition does not have a majority in the upper house. it cannot passills who help from the opposition. but no opposition party is going to cooperate with an unpopular prime minister. kan might be cornereded sometime next spring. that's when his government's bills could be rejected. >> is there any way left for kan to regain prime minister support? >> he must be bold and should challenge ozawa. he must understand that the people's will comes first. he wants to have summit talks with china and russia on the sidelines of the upcoming epic meeting in yo

obviously, that's for the japanese government to work out. but overall, joining the tpp, particularly in a scenario where that becomes a nucleus of an eventually broader free trade area of the asia pacific, i think would be a very important step for japan to take. not only to improve bilateral trade with the united states, but also to secure japan's strong integration into the emerging asia-pacific market. >> reporter: i also asked about china and recent concerns about its export restrictions on rare earth metals. clark explained apec's role to resolve such differences. >> a general approach, i think, to these issues that we would want to see would be one consistent with, you know, the rule of law internationally, consistent with level playing fields and access to markets among all of these countries. and that's why i would probably even come back to apec and say that one of the importances of apec is as a mechanism to promote a more open and fair trading regime among countries to resolve whatever differences there may be in a fora which is n

this is the yield on the benchmark 10-year japanese government bond. in other asian markets hong kong's hang seng opened 1.5% higher and is currently up 1.2%. the shanghai key index for major blue chips is up 0.9%. and in shenzhen the sse composite is up 0.7%. >>> earlier this week the u.s. central bank announced measures to buy up more government bonds. that will amount to $600 billion over the next eight months. so what's behind the decision and will it affect japan's policies? ramen malagart spoke with masaki kano, chief economist at securities japan for his views on the likely impact of the fed's move. >> many market players now think the u.s. economy is not growing at the pace they had earlier anticipated. how do you analyze the latest fed move? and will those measures prove effective in resuscitating the american economy? >> definitely the fed's decision toward further easing through the qe2 should contribute to the recovery of the u.s. economy. but we believe that the u.s. economy will grow only 2% or 2.5% in coming quarters. that is not fast en

japanese charities japanese officials have been very active in trying to pump money trying to pump resources into the. development social infrastructure in enough words to win the backings of the bulk of the backing of the local people they transfer all these four audience back to japan and this is essentially what the russian government wants to the culture here . that it's sad that it is very important for russia to make sure that people living in the crib live as don't feel about them that they don't feel neglected that they have acceptable living standards have to keep watch to continue allocating resources into developing in order to develop their regions and infrastructure here is exactly what you sat. in recent years we've managed to change the situation for the better you has ng is being built social infrastructure being created this is good as it's improving living standards and giving hope that they could reach the same levels as the mainland within a reasonable time frame obviously it's a remote part of the country but still the opportunities that people have there should be at a

prime minister and the japanese foreign minister were given hard time in the japanese parliament the discussion was really tough and. the temperature of debate was really high and of course the government had to react so they reacted recalling the ambassador but i think that for any politician in any country it's so easy to attract attention to problems abroad to attract to attract attention to aggressive neighbors when there are real problems inside the country which you can hardly solve today or tomorrow and of course it's not difficult to unite the nation united we stand as we heard one day to unite the day of the nation against the enemy so before that. scandalous disputes between talking moscow. yesterday and today's ago there was a tough dispute between tokyo and beijing. quite recently of the relations between japan and china deteriorated and it was a real crisis so it seems like japan has a lot of problems with the neighbors with korea with china with russia demanding the territories which the neighbors consider to be their territory because you mentioned you mentioned the fo

level also convey his position the islands are japanese territory. it remains to be seen if hu jintao will hold any meetings with kan. bilateral ties that have been strained since the collision of a trawler with japanese patrol boats in september. >>> we have been looking at japan/u.s. relations here on "newsline." you're series wraps up today with a story about nuclear cooperation between the two allies. u.s. president barack obama is calling for tightened global nuclear security. japan has the only country where nuclear bombs have been dropped, strongly supports his initiative. president obama hosted a nuclear security summit last april in washington. obama has said his long-term goal is to create a world without nuclear weapons but he recognizes nuclear terrorism as an imminent threat to international security. >> the urgency of the threat and the catastrophic consequences of even a single act of nuclear terrorism demand an effort that is at once bold and pragmatic. our work today not only advances the security of the united states, it advances th

at a she could turn school his salary speed by the japanese government. class is a very popular when you come to the school the children are already waiting for me amanda's people who i see there are many people who came here last year i'm happy here sometimes it seems to me that i was my family again and here class seventh graders study alongside their parents who hope to get a job in japan life at the career law lands may have a proven recent years but not quite so or just up the horizon it should be the very first voice these intention to visit to stop in korea was about a month ago but it that time bad weather prevented him from flying and now it looks like the wind and the rain are going to delay him flying out but that's a trifle compared to the fact that he has just become the first ever russian leader to set foot here some of our thi because the sheer island. well political analyst for just love of says there's no sign of a diplomatic solution to russia japan turned turtle conflict in the near future. for there should be a a strong political will

there should be a strong political will on the ball so when the japanese call them until the japanese government claims that the islands are ours period. they do not leave any space for diplomacy i don't think we are there as much economics for their lives that is not as critically important for japan which is quite self-sufficient it is a political symbol there are a few political symbols and japanese policy is japan has quarrels with every single neighbor every job was just politician but most of the public in japan i think there are there's bears in russia of course people just do not understand why japan the country which was allied to hitler we fought against our allies like the united states the united kingdom china should be rewarded by giving them the islands which were taken away after world war two here with r t why coming up later in the program for you and i know. the dark art. that's coming up in moments. how. beautiful our technology is rough save in a hundred company. that's coming up in our business. a deadly season baghdad by a group of militants on sunday ended with

of books of emanation put the japanese talking on the porch for the main gun it's a thirty seven mil room still use the whole explosion room there a lot of room. up on your head like this right carefully around long enough. by the end of day to the ground commander colonel chute who had been wounded by shrapnel during his landing the day before rallied his troops to capture the airport runway this effectively cut the enemy defenses into. day three began with an easier landing of additional marines at the western shore as the american forces began to outflank the japanese defenders that morning a chance event was taking place in the skies near by. a flight of hellcat fighter planes on routine patrol from the aircraft carrier lexington accidentally intercepted a formation of twenty japanese he cried is based from the nearby marshall islands the japanese were on a mission to bomb and strafe the tower landing force. by ten o five that morning the americans had shot down seventeen of the twenty bombers and force the remaining three back to their base the marines on base year were safe fro

american and japanese bodies covering the island were a mute testimony to the ferocity of the bout. one marine commented that it was the closest thing to dantes inferno universe and. it was a hellish wasteland of destruction. literally covered with thousands of bodies and ordnance. now came the grim task of collecting and bury a body. general holland smith in the marine commander was reputed to have said later that tara was a tragic mistake. after the battle the marines would bury their dead take detailed plot maps of the grave sites and within a matter of days return to their ships. meanwhile the burial were continued gun issue. identification was made more difficult by the condition than decomposition of several bodies in a number were lost at sea. i fortunately had the unpleasant duty of attending a number of burials and say i can't remember how many at least a half a dozen but one of the stands out in my memory in particular the chaplain who was in charge of the burial details i was standing next to him after he said his usual words before we dumped the guy ends of a date and i

call them until the japanese government claims that the islands are ours period. they do not leave any space for diplomacy i don't think there is much economics of their lives that is not as critically important for japan which squared self-sufficient it is a political symbol there are a few political symbols in japanese policy is japan has to rhetorical quarrels with every single neighbor every job was just politician but most of the public in japan are think. there is as in russia of course people just do not understand why japan country which was allied to hitler which fought against our allies like the united states the united kingdom china should be rewarded by giving them the islands which were taken away after world war two. a deadly siege in baghdad by it by a group of militants on sunday ended with fifty two dead and scores more wounded men in suicide vests and armed with grenades took an entire congregation hostage in one of the city's largest christian churches ended when iraqi troops stormed the building and the firefight that ensued left the guy some

>>japanese clothing company fast retailing is on a roll. it currently has 800 uniqlo stores in japanand aims to add at least the same number again in china alone by 2020. while the company's sales fell by 25 percent in september, it remains unfazed in its drive for global market share. >>reporter: tokyo's shinagawa train station is one of the most crowded places on earth - close to a million commuters will transit here on an average day...not your usual location for a clothing shop...but the proprietor is no ordinary japanese apparel maker - true to its name, fast retailing and its uniqlo stores are on a breathtaking dash to the top...with their conventional stores already saturating the country...the company is now chasing potential customers too busy to visit a regular shop...selling cheap undergarments to busy commuters, just like newspapers and candy. >>craft: uniqlo is a retailing legend here in japan, its no-nonsense low cost socks and shirts are mainstay of japanese closets. now the company has vowed to make itself as much a househol

side tokyo sad the trip was regrettable and her japanese public sentiment. japan's reaction to president visits trip to the pool islands is unacceptable it is our last elections and the russian president was visiting a russian territory i'm sure we've already strangers to our japanese partners. under international law the real island on the quickly belong to russia but due to geographic and economic reasons it's a residence a form of we can get to japan than to the mainland. and while russia may be in their hearts japan is still vying for their minds erica huma mortar is teaching japanese at ashika town school his celery speed by the japanese government i don't know how cause is a very popular when you come to the school the children are already waiting for me amanda people who i see there many people who came here last year i'm happy here sometimes it seems to me that i am with my family again and here class seventh graders study alongside their parents who hope to get a job in japan life at the career law lands may have proved in recent years but the white

they might be much better off if the on and on their japanese administration says you know us and if we get the oil is bark we won't move the russians who live there we know how painful it is then you offer them citizenship. that the dispute over the korean islands known as the northern territory's in japan always had a third party to it it was the united states that encouraged the soviet union to take them over in nineteen forty five and it was also washington that later still just passed a rhetorical claims but now many japanese see both russia and america as occupying forces you know new. issues one is a territorial claim to russia and the other is to get rid of american military bases on japanese territory. under international law the real islands unequivocally belong to russia but due to geographic and economic reasons its residents a bomb of week when it gets to japan than to the mainland and while russia may be in their hearts japan is still whining for their minds erica yamamoto is teaching japanese at a she could turn school his salary paid by the japanese government i don't

the japanese were on a mission to bomb and strafe the tower landing force. by ten o five that morning the americans had shot down seventeen of the twenty bombers and force the remaining three back to their base the marines on base year received from potentially devastating casualties. meanwhile supported by reinforcements and artillery fire from nearby islands the marines used all means necessary to systematically take out the japanese defenders they slowly advance toward the narrow eastern tip of the arctic. leon paid a visit to mother superior margaret sullivan of our lady of the sacred heart mission she showed in the declaration the japanese government is that it just hours after they took over the island now that you have money and playing on a warning that japan was going to occupy the xining all of a sudden they simply showed up as a right to die is that really what i want to finish up every tenth of december to those up till now to where they land and face. as his outreach to local officials continued leon and ted met with the minister of interior. he

it forecasts a 1.7% growth for the japanese economy for 2011. that's down 0.3 percentage points from a forecast given in may. the report says the pace of expansion will slow further in 2012 to 1.3%. the report says the slowdown in growth is due to sluggish consumer spending. it comes from the waning effects of government stimulus measures. these include the end of subsidies in september for buyers of ecofriendly cars. the report also expense deflationary pressures to continue to weigh down on prices in 2012 at the earliest. as a key measure the oecd proposes more aggressive buying of long-term government bonds. >>> let's take a look at the latest market figures. ♪ >>> the japan aerospace exploration agency, or jaxa, has announced its first venus probe, akatsuki, will enter into orbit around the red planet early next month. akatsuki was launched on an h2a rocket in may from the tanagashima space center in southwestern japan. jaxa said on thursday that booster rockets will be fired on december 7th at approximately 9:00 a.m. japan time to put the p

the event was organized by a major japanese employment agency. organizer says it picked 500 applicants from more than 1,000 applications in a preliminary selection. the successful applicants will be employed directly by the japanese firm and not by their subsidiaries in china. the applicants underwent interviews in japanese after being briefed about working conditions by the company officials. one student said the recent strained relations between china and japan has not affected her job-seeking activities. the growing number of japanese firms are seeking to employ chinese workers in manager yl posts, with the aim of expanding their businesses in china amid its robust growth. >>> to reduce the number of car accidents caused by elderly drivers, the government has set up a system where senior citizens can voluntarily surrender their driver's permit. last year nearly 50,000 elderly gave up their licenses, but some seniors in the countryside are reluctant to stop driving. in this report nhk world's asadi kajihara shows us why. >> reporter: 87-year-ol

all the workers are japanese.ers from luxury brand companies have doubled the factory's business in the last few years. at one point they hired a lot of lower paid chinese trainees. still price competition resulted in lower profits. this company came up with a strategy to avoid price-cutting wars. it makes something its competitors don't. high-quality products. when determining whether a suit is comfortable, it's important to examine the arms. normally, they are ironed once. but here they're ironed repeatedly as they're being stretched. this makes a natural curve that better fits a woman's shape. >> translator: when you take that extra step, the difference is huge. >> reporter: another strategy is hiring local high school graduates. the company can improve their skills, resulting in the manufacture of high-quality products. >> translator: skill isn't something that people master overnight. it takes much longer than that. true skill is something you acquire gradually over the years. in my opinion if the garment fac

we're not going to take any steps that would hinder relations but the japanese side should make it soon. peter why does this issue mean so much for both countries. well we have to go back and look at the history of they sixty five years ago the end of the second world war these four islands these four critical islands became part of the soviet union now part of russian territory as is saying. they've actually been the reason why there is no official peace treaty fully following the end of the second world war between japan and russia now in one nine hundred fifty six when relationships between the two countries were reinstated we sold russia off its time off two of these islands but to japan japan said no that wasn't what they wanted they wanted all of them back and not resulted in no firm conclusion from those talks there's still no official peace treaty as you mentioned following the second world war due to these four islands and why are they so important they have very mineral rich. which are not just minerals but also oil and gas and they live very close certainly the most northern

well ambassador kono the japanese ambassador here in russia has been recalled by tokyo this is as you mentioned that the visit by president medvedev to the. delisle ins in the far east now internationally they are now regarded as belonging to russia however japan say they have a claim to them now this is interesting as it comes with the head of the apec summit which will be taking place next weekend a new yokohama in japan as it stands the most of the kremlin is saying that president medvedev will be going to yokohama however the japanese side of said that it remains unclear as of yet if planned bilateral talks between the japanese prime minister and the president of russia will go ahead the japanese foreign minister had this to say on the recall of the ambassador. it is extremely regrettable that president medvedev visited the karylle islands even though japan had earlier notified russia that there could be a negative impact on bilateral relations we decided that ambassador kono should return home temporarily so he can brief us on the background of the visit. of constantine cos the c

until the results of the american japanese foundation's d.n.a. studies are now the younger generation is left wondering and given the social stigma attached to the radiation this doubt protects much and all the children of the. victims. my husband was upset and that his daughter was label to he baku share in the press . this branded him to mean that when he proposed to me that i was he really bothered him. i was worried about what would happen to our children. it was considered a transmittable disease so i didn't know what would happen so. i thought well what if it happens it happens. my love was stronger than my fear you know what i still worry about my wife and daughter will be affected by the bomb that. a mother in law feels responsible and she suffers the most discussed. i was born and raised in hiroshima outsiders always emphasize that i am from hiroshima hiroshima hiroshima i don't enjoy that very much. does not me being from hiroshima do i feel you motivated to make a contribution. and so since university i learned a lot about conflicts in