a series of jolts killed 59 people in kumamoto prefecture. one person is missing. about 4600 people are still in shelters. many others are sleeping in garages or tents. >> translator: as a shop owner, i want to reopen for business. but i have no idea when i can do it. first i want to move into temporary housing. >> repeporter: municipalities a building temporary housing, but they've only completed 40%. local labor officials say they've received more than 20,000 inquiries from people who lost their jobs and businesses trying to rebuild. >>> the man who overseas one of the world's main financial centers is trying to protect its reputation as a place to do business. gene otani joins us with more on that and other business headlines. >> the lord mayor of the city of london wants to ease concerns among foreign investors about the impacts of the brexit vote. jeffrey evans is visiting japan and he's working hard to convince people here that nothing has changed. he told investors in tokyo that the situation for britain's financial hub is as strong a as ever. >>>> don't't b

officials at kumamoto castle say one gamer wanted to enter an area that was off limits after the structureas damaged during the earthquakes in april. they lodge add protest with the company behind the game and demanded that the castle be excluded from the game's map. >> translator: we told the company that it's very dangerous for people to play in those areas because the stonewall could collapse. >> the gaming company says it may be possible to comply with requests to exclude certain areas. >>> okinawa's governor has long battled with the central government for the residents. they have protested for many years over the military facilities in the prefecture and two developments on friday are now enflaming tensions once again. nhk world's yoichiro tateiwa reports. >> translator: the people of okinawa have for years have endured excessive burdens and worked hard to contribute to the japan/u.s. security alliance. the government's decision to press forward with construction in the current situation is utterly unacceptable. >> reporter: okinawa's governor is once again going after the central go

. >>> residents of kumamoto prefecture are trying to get back to their lives following the earthquake. some who evacuated their home are moving into a large scale housing complex. people started moving on sunday, the complex in the town of mushici. a new business service helping residents get around a major supermarket chain is planning to open a location inside the complex. >> i'm happy. >> translator: my wife is sick, so we need a stable environment. with this house i think we can get by. >> a total of 3,600 temporary housing units are being built in 16 municipalities across the prefecture. land minister keiichi ishii says 90% will be completed by the end of the month. >>> when it comes to accepting refugees, japan's doors are almost shut. of the 7,500 asylum seekers applied last year only 27 were granted refugee status. in a bid to push the doors open, one group is trying education as a path to empathy. nhk reports. >> reporter: tokyo station is the setting for an unusual exhibition. all these people are refugees living in japan, coming from syria, uganda, nepal, each of them has a

a high risk for landslides for many areas and there's an extreme risk for landslides across the kumamoto region. this area was hit by the massive earthquakes in april. the ground is well saturated. right now heavy rain is falling across the north of the kyushu region and the system will likely shift south into tonight. up to 250 millimeters for the north of the kyushu region. and up to 2 mieshlgtz lzs 2kshz 00 millimeters for t the south the region. watch for thunderstorms and gusty wiwinds as well. now, across the e eastern half japan, heavy rain is expected. which is not necessarily bad news for the areas that have been lacki ining precipitation far this season. across america on monday there were seven reports of tornadoes in minnesota. we have some footage coming out of minnesota. severe weather swept through the u.s. midwest tuesday bringing damaging winds and flash flooding. a damaging tornado ripped through the town and caused devastati devastation. rain was a big problem too. 250 millimeters of rain fell in just 24 hours in minnesota washing out roads and damaging homes. now, the

heat is also building across western japan. 36 for the high in kumamoto on friday. but it's been cool in tokyo. 27 degrees on wednesday. but starting thursday it's going to b be heating upup. i think the rainy s season w wi likely come to ann end soon. fifinally o over towards t the china sea, the tropical storm has just formed over the south china sea. this is the third tropical storm for the western pacific typhoon system. the system could hit the hainan area as we go into tomorrow morning and then could hit the north of vietnam by thursday local time. quite a lot of heavy rain is likely to o fall. 'r're anticipating up to 150 millimeters of rainfall which could cause some flash floododss well as landslides. winds are going to be qte strongs s well. that's it fromom me now. here is your extended forecast around the globe. >>> and that wraps up this hour's nhk "newsline." be sure to watch "newsroom tobq >> hello and welcome to the program. i am claire pryde. these are the top stories. a priest killed in northern france after two men entered a church carrying knives

officials in kumamoto prefecture are running a campaign to revive local tourism which has sagged since a series of earthquakes in april. they're offering more than 200,000 vouchers for hotels and inns all at heavily discounted prices. they say in less than two days, they've already sold two-thirds. >>> shipments of home appliances fell in june for the first time in 14 months. deliveries totaled $2.3 billion down more than 5% from a year earlier in yen terms. industry officials say fewer upgraded their washing machines and refrigerators. >>> tokyo's sumita ward has seen better days. the number of small factories making texextiles and other products has shrunk to a third of its peak. so a new generation of entrepreneurs are trying to bring it back to life. >> reporter: this used to be a garage. it was forced too closehen the owner got too old to run the business. these days vocational school students use the same space. the local world authorities helped pay to convert the garage. the aim is to interest young people in manufacturing. some day they may replace aging factory workers. >> tr

maenl of these areas, kumamoto and kagoshima and fukuoka as well, and also a train derailed this morning on thursday. hiroshima just off to the north. a wide swath of area being impacted by this. and the threat is still there. if you have any travel plans around, you do want to be prepared for the possibility of delays, especially in the steeper elevations where the landslide threat is at its highest. the forecast, more rain expected out here across western areas of the country. upwards of about 180 millimeters in southern kyushu could be possible out there. 70, 80 millimeters in a one-hour span in the stronger cells. back toward the north, got the scattered thunderstorms during the afternoon i was talking about. if we follow that front back to the west, much of eastern china, you'll be looking at more rainfall, especially in the shanghai. scattered showers throughout the day on your thursday. high of 32. seoul, hot there, 31, partly cloudy skies. you're staying north of that front. if we look further back here towards the west, still got showers there into the bangkok area, northwest mo

office herself, she is looking at a state assembly seat in november and now she is running against an kumamotohile, a democrat, and slow knows in berkeley she has in chance but she did not want an election where an incumbent was running unopposed and that is why she is doing it. 22. one day, perhaps, she will be one give the speeches on the stage. we will watch claire. >> reggie aqui and laura anthony will continue coverage from cleveland all week and next week in philadelphia for the d convention. the coverage is right here on air and online at abc7news.com. >> a man is under arrest for doing doughnuts across the bay bridge. after moving through traffic with speeds up to 90 miles per hour, the group of driver on the bay bridge coordinated to bring traffic to a step. one of them performed doughnuts across all lanes of the upper deck. they want on for 20 seconds and c.h.p. said they got several calls it was happening and waited for the driver at the end of the bridge. >> the driver tried to claim it wasn't him but we were able to get enough developed through the investigation we were able to ar

you've got kumamoto's.> anthony: i should eat these before training to give me super human strength. on the other hand coughing up oysters all over the front of my gi would probably, like, not be cool. mshz ♪ ♪ >> anthony: the bay area is changing, forever. will san francisco's new overlords find a place in their hearts for this? trader vic's. one of the last of its kind. started in oakland in one of a wave of tiki-themed polynesian fantasy restaurants, bars, and nightclubs that for a time spread across america. i definitely need the drinks menu. i've been beaten like a chicken fried steak, you know? >> sean: why? oh you were doing some sort of martial art weren't you? >> anthony: doing jiu jitsu yes, yes. yeah. do iant the mai thai wave? >> sean: what's the mai thai wave? >> anthony: it's a flight of mai thai's. >> sean: really? >> anthony: it's like a surfboard with three different mai thai's. >> anthony: not many places left that do this, very few do it without irony. >> anthony: this is not the first ti