he knows he needs to shave a few more to qualify for tokyo. >> if i have to paddle to tokyo, it's justhe other side of the pacific, you know, i will find a way. >> reporter: with kayaking, he hopes to become the first athlete to compete at three different olympics in three unrelated events. >> what a charismatic person. and you know he's also a unicef pacific good will ambassador and homeless children's advocate. hats off to pita. keep on making a splash. the spirit of sports, most of it comes down to camaraderie and resilience. anything of true significance in life will involve strugle and perseverance. you could say this is a good message to cheer us on during the pandemic. thank you for watching and see you soon. >> several people were killed when security forces opened fire on demonstrators. ♪ this is al jazeera live from london. also coming up, accused of putting profits over people. he was drugmaker purdue pharma to plead guilty to criminal charges over its marketing of the painkiller oxycontin. drumming home and antigovernment message, indigenous people join thousands of protest

i'm yoshi ogasawara in tokyo.s for watching and do stay with us for more. ♪ >>> this is "newsline biz." i'm gene otani. trading resumed on the tokyo stock exchange on friday after it was h halted by a technical glitch for all of thursday. the session ended without any disruptions. trading kicked offff at the usu time at 9:00 a.m. bringing some relief to market participants. tse officials said thursday the glititch was tririggered by y a hardware failure in n the syste switching to a backup device also failed making it impossible for market information to be distributed. the tse replaced the equipment that caused the failure and confirmed that there was no problem with the trading system. the outage had a wide ranging impact. local exchanges use the same system as tokyo to execute trades. they also reopened on friday after a hiatus the previous day. the nikkei average finished .7% lower, compared to wednesday's close. the index tumbled after u.s. president t donald trumpmp twee he and the first lady tested positive

we did have some more breaking headlines out of tokyo regarding the tokyo exchange, which right now is at all. they are planning to replace the hardware and they are working to resume trading and they said the problem occurred when they were switching to the backup. they have shut trading today after talking to market participants. we will wait to hear more headlines and when we could possibly see trading resume likely potentially tomorrow, but they are working on it and it is shut for the entire day right now, the biggest outage ever for tokyo. let's circle back to the fed. the fed has extended restrictions on paying dividends and share buybacks. the constraints first announced in june will last until the end of the year, so really cash preservation for the u.s. banks. editor joinsonomy us now. what was the fed justification for this latest announcement taking this halt to the end of the year? inwell, you heard it there michael mckee's interview with thomas barkin, the keyword word being uncertainty. that is something the fed is holding onto and their message. they cited it on wednesd

stormy conditions will be seen including in tokyo over the weekend. total rainfall could reach 700 millimeters, and tokyo may have more than 300 millimeters. there is a chance of flooding and landslides and you should stay abuy frway from the coasta washingtareas because waves will be dangerously high. >>> turning to the united states. authororities hahave charged 13 people for allegedly plotting to kidnap the governor of michigan ahead of the november election. the officials say that they belonged to militia groups that oppose the p policies of gretch whitmer, a democrat. >> all of us stand here today and want the public to know that federal and state law enforcement are committed to make sure violent extremists never succeed with their plans. particularly when they t target our duley elected leaders. >> officials from the fbi and other agencies say the groups were planning to attack the state's capitol building and abduct government officials, including the governor. whitmer described the militia as far right white supremacist groups and called out

today 15.5, usually 22 in tokyo.ause of chan-hom bringing all this moisture where there's a front in place, that's enhancing the rain that's in place. we're going to be dealing with rain again for coke i dontokyo . by sunday we're at 27 with the rain eventually clearing out as we go through today, but it's going to be a lot warmer. so don't put away some of the warmer weather clothes because you're going to need it by sunday. osaka also releasing a jump in temperatures once we see the system pass through. the next couple days, quite wet and quite stormy as well along the coastal area. make sure you keep that in mind. meanwhile we've been watching hurricane delta. it smacked through the yucatan peninsula. now it's bearing for louisiana. louisiana has been hit quite hard. we're looking at the possibility of seeing another landfall. laura about six weeks ago really caused problems along the coastal areas of the state. looking at this storm which is category 2 for the moment to become a major category 3 storm as we go in

cold air will spread from the south to tokyo on saturday.the same time, we are expecting widespread showers across the lower half of the country. it will be rainy in tokyo with the high dropping to 14 degrees on saturday and 16 degrees in osaka. meanwhile, sapporo will get a bit warmer temperatures over the weekend, with sunny skies. people in the inner peninsula are still dealing with rainful. we have new drop call depression in the south china sea that will push into vietnam this weekend, bringing downpours in some areas. you may see more than 100 millimeters of additional rainfall in some areas for the next 24 hours. back-to-back storms have produced a large amount of rainfall in the past few days, causing major floods and landslides. more rain will lead to further landslides. heavy rain is expected here, with 28 degrees on friday. manila will see some rainstorms. in north america, cold air has produced early winter-like weather in the central portions of canada. much cooler temperatures will arrive in the plains and the upper midwest as

i'm yoshi ogasawara in tokyo.nks for watching and do stay with us for more. ♪ >>> this is "newsline biz." i'm gene otani. a grim corporate earnings season in japan is being head lined by a crushing decline at one of the country's major air carriers. japan airlis is forecasting a group net loss of at least $2.3 billion for the business year that ends next march. the coronavirus pandemic is impacting companies across the board. jal reports sales during the april to september period fell 74% from a year earlier. the net loss is more than $1.5 billion. the main cause is a large drop in passenger numbers on both international and domestic flights. jal officials say they aim to cut costs by about $960 million this fiscal year by cutting staff and reducing the airline's fleet. they also plan to seek an additional credit line to secure a total of $2.9 billion the carrier needs to stay afloat. jal will post the first group loss since a business restructure in 2012 that brought it out of bankruptcy. >>> the operator of japa

i'm yoshi ogasawara in tokyo.for watching and do stay with us for more. ♪ >>> this is "newsline biz." i'm gene otani. the covid-19 pandemic has taken a massive toll on business for east japan railway. the company has posted a net loss of $264 billion yen or about $2.5 billion for the april to september period. it's the group's first loss for the period since 1992. that's when it began releasing half-year results. the train operator known as jre says its group sales in the six months plunged by almost half from last year. demand for the train travel -- demand for train travel dried up. sales also declined at its commercial facilities, hotels and station buildings. the company expects to see its first annual net loss of about $4 billion through march. east japan railway says it aims to cut costs by around $960 million this fiscal year. the company will reduce executive compensation and advertising expenses. it will also move up the departure times of last train services on many lines in and around tokyo starting nex

now i'll hand it to our studio in tokyo. >> thank you very much for that, catherine.atherine kobayashi in new york. >>> turning to asia now, where the u.s. secretary of state has vis idded sri lanka. he rashed out at china forgiving massive loans to the island nation. beijing criticized the indo-pacific strategy war proposes. mike pompeo met for talks with the president and the foreign minister on wednesday. the secretary of state slammed china's infrastructure investment in sri lanka. >> we see from bad deals, violations of sovereignty and lawlessness on land and see that the chinese communist party is a predator and the united states comes in a different way. we come as a friend and as a partner. >> sri lanka agreed in 2017 to lease its southern port to china for 99 years in a bid to write off a $1.1 billion debt on the construction cost. critics call the deal classic case of debt trap. the chinese embassy in colombo released a statement accusing the u.s. of using pompeo's visit to meddle in china-sri lanka relations. the japan and other nations see it as a hub for

i'm raja pradhan in tokyo with the latest with this hour.e start in norway where the united nations world food program has been named the winner of this year's nobel peace prize. >> the norwegian nobel committee has decided to award the nobel peace prize for 2020 to the world foodd program for its efforts to combat hunger, for its contribution to bettering conditions for peace in conflict-affected areas and for acting as a driving force in efforts to prevent the use of hunger as a weapon of war and conflict. >> the world food program was founded in 1961 and is the world's largest humanitarian organization addressing hunger and promoting food security. the nobel committee says the coronavirus pandemic has led to a surge inn the numberr of vicis ofof hungerr in the worldld and ququoted the wfp whichch said, l there is a medical vaccine, food is the best vaccine against chaos. in 2019 the u.n. branch provided assistance to close to 100 million people in 88 countries affected by food insecurity and hunger. the wfp thanked the nobel committee for

in central tokyo, the average restoration costs about $94,000.is a companyny that mediat between ventures and office space owners. it's been receiving a growing number of inquiries from companies that want to avoid paying the restoration fees. it says building owners have become more flexible. >> translator: owners are aware that many companies are seeking to cancel their leases, and the number of companies wanting to move out without having to restore their offices has been increasing. openers used to refuse to negotiate, but they're now willing to do so on a case by case basis. >> reporter: the people here have no choice but to pay the restoration fee at the old office. however, they intend to minimize expenses at the new office by not changing the interior which the previous tenant spent $140,000 to customize. the restoration fee is the only responsible companies in japan face when they vacate the office. they also have to notify the owners 6 to 12 months in advice and they are obliged to pay the rent during that period. now, there's a new ser

i'm raja pradhan in tokyo. is "newsline biz" with ramin mellegard, so stay right there. ♪ >>> this is "newsline biz." i'm ramin mellegard. low cost carrier airasia japan says it'll discontinue all of its flight routes and close down operations in the country. it says it can expectnot expect recovery in passenger demand because of covid-19. all four routes will be abolished december 5th. it operates between central japan and sapporo, sendai, fukuoka, and taipei. the airline suspended all international and domestic flights from april. operations in japan resumed in august, but it stopped all domeststic flights again t this month. the airliline is a joint ventur between malaysia paced airasia group and japanese partners and began operations in 2017. >>> the tokyo stock exchange officials have apologized again for technical glitch that halted trading the entire session last thursday. a failure in a memory module in a cash equity trading system was the direct cause. the officials explained when the failure occurred,

he did make it to tokyo. he was able to meet with the new japanese prime minister, suba. we had a great relationship with him when he was the chief cabinet secretary. he met with vice president pence and secretary pompeo. he continues to build on a relationship that was already solid. committed tos very ensuring that the u.s.-japan relationship remains the cornerstone of our national security. we are looking forward to deepening further this relationship. it was the second time we had met at the foreign level. the australian and indian minister flying in. schedule.rueling the secretary spent 20 hours on the ground before coming back here. before us the quad -- an understanding in our four countries, about the need of democracies such as ourselves to get together to discuss our shared interests to discuss ways we can cooperate. mark: thank you for the excellent overview. i appreciate the outstanding readout. is primarily focused on korea. koreans takehe away from this? take away fromul this? the new japanese prime minister, something that comes to mind is tokyoole-tokyo --

that is a look at tokyo.ace, this is bloomberg. ♪ so you're a small business, or a big one. you were thriving, but then... oh. ah. okay. plan, pivot. how do you bounce back? you don't, you bounce forward, with serious and reliable internet. powered by the largest gig speed network in america. but is it secure? sure it's secure. and even if the power goes down, your connection doesn't. so how do i do this? you don't do this. we do this, together. bounce forward, with comcast business. exchange hasstock scrapped trading for the day after the breakdown of the --d's third-largest particularly given the u.s. stock market being strong. and the closure of other major markets here in asia. our guest joins us from tokyo. this is a hardware issue. >> that is right. there was speculation earlier. especially after what happened in new zealand. earlier that it could be related to cybersecurity. issue, thisware would be better for suppliers. the worst this is ever breakdown of their type. you don't really have any breakdow

once again, the tokyo market has suspended all trading.t is citing problems with the system that distributes market information. we will have more information on this as they come in. >>> plus in hong kong are on high alert amid the 71st anniversary of the founding of the peoples' republic of china. authorities have been stepping up their crackdown on protesters since a national security law that beijing imposed on hong kong took effect in june. demonstrators typically take place to mark the day, but they have been banned with police citing the need to conquer the coronavirus. but people on social media are still calling for rallies. about 6,000 officers are being deployed in case pro-democracy protesters take to the streets. barricades were erected around a venue where government officials were said to mark the anniversary. >>> meanwhile, criticism is mounting over the handling of 12 hong kong activists detained on suspicion of trying to smuggle themselves to taiwan. families say they haven't received any information since their loved one

i'm yamamoto miki in tokyo.e start with a story here in japan that's caused major problems for companies and investors around the world. the tokyo stock exchange reopen reopened. >> reporter: the incident on thursday deprived investors of their chance to buy and sell shares. on friday trading kicked off without any problems at 9:00 a.m. local time. at a news conference on thursday, tse officials said the glitch was triggered by a hardware failure in the system. they apologized for the inconvenience caused by the system failure. the tse introduced its arrowhead core training system ten years ago. officials said it suffered a disk failure. a back up system would normally kick in but on thursday, the switchover failed as well. there's concern that the market outage could erode confidence in the financial center. i'll be back reporting on the trading situation from the tokyo stock exchange miki. >> thank you, marie. >>> united states, russia and france are calling for an immediate cease fire between azerbaijan and a

from our studio in tokyo, this is nhk "newsline."e begin with the impact of the coronavirus on the highest echelons of power in the united states. president donald trump has left the military hospital where he spent three days receiving treatment. the 74-year-old d was flown bac to the white house, where he will continue to be cared for. he gave a thumbs up to reporters after landing. and removed his mask moments lateter to salute the d departi helicopter inn what appearared be a a p photo op. hours earlier t trump posted a message on twitter vowing to return to thee c campaign trail soon w with weeksks to gogo unt november election. he also urged the public not to be afraid of covid, a disease that has kled overr 200,000 americicans and more than a million people worldwide. trump's medical team said monday that he had not had a fever for 72 hours and that his oxygen levels were normal. they said hee may not entirely e out of the woods yet but he was well enough to return home. the doctor said his condition will continue to be monito

navy would go right into tokyo a if a pilot was down -- tokyo bay if a pilot was down and on a raft and they would just become up right there. so the odds were ok that way. jeremy:jeremy: a quick question for clarification. the dogfight was after the broadcast of the emperor's surrender message? john: correct. there any record of any japanese planes shot down? this is from amy. any japanese planes shot down during this dogfight? john: the air group records indicate eight japanese planes were shot down by the six hellcat fighters. who did what is up for debate, but they do indicate eight were shot down. jeremy: i don't see any more coming in online and we are just hitting that one hour mark which we wanted to try to hit. richard says great for answering his question and i think that summarizes this conversation. you and i spoke yesterday on the house of world war ii history, and there seems to be an infinite amount of doors to be opened. you certainly found a new door, a wonderful story that i think honors these four men who perished, but also the air group 88, yorktown, and all of those

i'm yamamoto miki in tokyo.>> we begin this hour in france where a man wielding a knife has killed three people in the southern city of nice. president emmanuel macron described it as a terrorist attack. that's led the government no raise its national security alert to its highest level. >> translator: we will up the mobilization of the military operation from 3,000 to 7,000 soldiers on the ground. >> macron visited the scene of the attack at notre dame basilica on thursday. he pledged to protect freedom of religion. the attacker was detained after being shot and wounded by police. one woman was a victim in her 60s who had been praying in the basilica. the others are a man in his 50s and a woman in her 40s. the alleged tacker is a 21-year-old tunisian national. he said the suspect repeatedly shouted "god is great" in arabic while being treated at the scene. the bloodshed comes less than two weeks after a teacher in a paris suburb was attacked with a knife. the teacher had shown his students caricatures of the pr

as you said he did make tokyo. significant he was able to meet with the new japanese prime minister suga and individually we know well. we did a great relationship with him when he was chief cabinet secretary and, in fact, when suga was chief, he was in washington met with vice president pence and secretary pompeo. this is a chance to continue to build on a relationship that was already solid and believe the prime minister, the new prime minister is devotee of the alliance come soon as they committed to ensuring that the u.s.-japan relationship remains the cornerstone of both of our national security and foreign policies in the region. and we are looking for to deepening further for the relap over the months ahead. as for the quad, it was the second time we had met at the foreign minister level. this is important. we had yesterday and indian foreign ministers flight and just for and so billy i think a pity was went to see it go forward but it was a pretty grueling schedule. i think the sector spent 20 hours on the

victor, i want to come to you on the trilateral and seoul tokyo peace. we will get to the quad in the second. i'll come back to you on the quad. but victors,, on his basket of issues. so tokyo trilateral relationship. >> sure. mark is being diplomatic because he's a diplomat. this relationship is about as bad as -- i wrote a book on this relationship. it's about as bad as it's ever been unfortunately. i do think there's an opportunity with a new prime minister. a i don't think the relationship to be bad. he spoke about korea in his first speech in the united states, actually at csis. he did his best. he wanted to build relations with korea but so much stuff happen and it that just being, i mean he as the right minister just became an obstacle to any possible improvement of relations. the fact that suga is now there, even the suga is almost like abe two are still an opportunity just because of the personalities have changed. and so it's great as mark said pompeo was in tokyo and raise the trilateral. it's important that happened. on the korean side there

you mentioned the pilot parachuted into tokyo by and did not survive. was joe sailink it off but they are not sure. was the survival rate for four pilots bailing out over water? was that just par for the course that they would drown or was he possibly wounded? john: if they could somehow make it down with their plane, the chances of rescue are very high. ocean,rachuting into the the odds plummeted. one chapter in the book is about air and sea rescue is fascinating and how they did that. the u.s. navy would go right into tokyo a if a pilot was down and on a raft and they would just become up right there. so the odds were ok that way. the dogfight was after the broadcast of the emperor's surrender message? john: correct. record of any japanese planes shot down? this is from amy. any japanese planes shot down during this dogfight? john: the air group records indicate eight japanese planes were shot down by the six hellcat fighters. who did what is up for debate, but they do indicate eight were shot down. i don't see any more coming in online and we are jus

yoshiaki nohara on the line from tokyo.d his article about japan's lost generation in the latest issue of bloomberg businessweek. check it out. plus, we are looking at similar challenges now facing millennial graduates this weekend on bloomberg television. generation interrupted examines the catastrophic impact of the pandemic and recession on people now aged 16 to 24. that is in hong kong. coming up, we have the markets open. we will be watching japan. this is bloomberg. ♪ so you're a small business, or a big one. you were thriving, but then... oh. ah. okay. plan, pivot. how do you bounce back? you don't, you bounce forward, with serious and reliable internet. powered by the largest gig speed network in america. but is it secure? sure it's secure. and even if the power goes down, your connection doesn't. so how do i do this? you don't do this. we do this, together. bounce forward, with comcast business. ♪ shery: welcome. ages -- ages major markets have just opened. they are back in business. the outage caused further doubt

michael prayer president of the shin gets to news agency and also in tokyo tomohiko taniguchi a former special advisor to the cabinet oceans are also professor at the care university graduate school of system design and management welcome to you all i'd like to begin in tokyo with you tom he could turn to gucci the fact that they're doing this now the fact that they are considering releasing this treated radioactive water into the pacific ocean has many people alarmed why would they dump radioactive water into the pacific ocean there are 2 kinds of names 2. car water and mr carr and you're using 2 descriptions one is to call it contaminated another treated the fact of the matter is it is that the amount of. water no longer contaminated because there is an hour range amount and system called alcs that is advanced a liquid processing system the only remaining radio active material is. but everyone knows the tritium is on pole in our poll supply and natural water's a bowl kinds it is in the human body and if you ask anyone in this field even if you drink the water that has a treaty and in

seoul, tokyo, trilateral relationship. victor: sure. mark is being diplomatic because he is a diplomat. this relationship -- i wrote a book on this. it is about as bad as it has ever been, unfortunately. i think that there is an opportunity with a new prime minister. i don't think he ever intended for the relationship to be bad. he spoke about korea and his first speech in the united states. it was at csis. he did his best on the -- deal. he wanted to build relations with korea, but so much happened and -- as the prime minister, he became an obstacle to any possible improvement in relations. sue is there, even though suga is like abe ii, there are still opportunities because the personalities have changed. pompeo was in tokyo and raised it with both suga and -- trilateral. it is important that that happened. on the korean side, the president -- it was good that they made positive statements with suga, positive, forward-looking. the main thing is that they have to see it as important, even if it's not conducive to any sort of improvement

they continued on toward tokyo. as they got near the airfield, they were getting ready to attack when the commander contacted them and said stop. we just received word the japanese have agreed to cessation of hostilities. abort your mission, and return to the carrier. of course, that news he gave to all of them. of course, we are going to be going home, gonna survive the war, all of those thoughts went screaming through their minds. they turned back, and you can see on the map, just north of the airfield, and they were on their way out to tokyo bay when 15 to 20 japanese fighters jump them. they became involved in a furious dogfight. joe saloff, one of the men who survived, he said he saw joe saloff's plane going down over -- saloffbut sail off parachuted out. he saw that but that's all he knew. that same pilot saw another hellcat explode in the air. that guy got out by parachuting as well. the other two to be downed that day were smashed into farmland or terrain, right around the yokohama area. that left two guys w

what comes to mind is seoul-tokyo relationships?> i think that the prime minister recognizes the importance of instructive and productive relationships between our countries, the tri-lateral relationship. and what we share is meeting the north korea challenge. i would fully expect going forward the prime minister will work with us, work with the republic of korea on our shared challenge with pyong yang. at the same time we're looking for other areas where we can cooperate. it's important for us, again, to realize we share values and we share goals and hopefully as we proceed, seoul and tokyo will find a way to address our issues in a way that does respect the past, but does pave the way to a brighter future. >> do you sense any opportunity for improving ties or improving tri-lateral relations between the nations in the wake of the prime minister and b, secretary pompeo's trip to the region? >> the tri lateral relationship was among the topics that the secretary raised not just with the prime minister, but the former minister. and th

asking about in tokyo district is a. computer games alex and the are pornography the company soft on demand alone operate 70 special b r 6 dogs in japan it's one of the largest producers of pornography films in asia. here you can see employees faces to keep things discreet i asked to book a one power of the package it costs almost 1000 yen about a year old all god stuff in these cities have venues like this. can be rented for up to 3 hours there are 3 different options reclining chair reclining mat. i chose reclining match. my booth was on the 2nd floor i'm one meter 93 tall and felt pretty close to fall back on the way out. in the booth i found the our glasses handkerchiefs a telephone slip and countless options it was a little bit confusing to be honest. the lot of people you don't know either because 50 percent of people come here so they have a special service well that i would call for help. help me set up and stop of the films a shot from a subjective camera angle so depending on the where the u.s. seated are lying

mortal in tokyo is one of japan's leading produces. when you watch a p.r. on a t.v. or a p.c. screen it's usually from a bird's eye view of the real v.a.r. emphasizes the experience much more. of a. customer feels as if he could really touch the girl that he has real eye contact or that he can feel her breath next to his ear. so immediate it's a completely different view or perspective to a standard movie that. i found the unusual perspective unsettling. first impression it's really very detailed a little bit weird to watch to be honest because the woman in that clip i just saw she shoots this distortion is linked to the distance between our pupils which is different for every person the images are set to a stand at this time if this doesn't correspond to the eyes of the person wearing the glasses the proportions will be distorted. the filmmakers of soft on the amount produced that he obviously knows in this studio everything here is why. this ensures that the background isn't distracting and allows the producers to better direct of us focus. the strength of b.r. because that

nhk world, tokyo. >>> u.s. president donald trump hasetur rned to the white house after spending three days in hospital being treated for covid-19. he's promising to get back on the campaign trail with just weeks to go until the november elections. he's spurring controversy along the way. the 7474-year-olold gave a thump to reporters after making the short trip b back to the capita. moments later he remove his mask to s supp salute thehe departin helicoptpter in what appearedd be a photo opopinion. >> we're g going back, back to work. we're going to be up front. as your lead arare, i hollylywo that do ththat. i stood out front, i i led. nobody as a leadeder would noto what i did. i know thehere's a risk. tles ooh a dangnger, but that's okay. now i'm better. >> e experts arere criticicizin trump's d decision to leave hospital. he remaiains infected and contagious putting others around him at risk. many u.s. media oututlets arere slslamming his recent comommentd behavior varding the vierls which has killed over 2

one of the biggest is this one in western tokyo.pleas of city officials to preserve it, it continues to deteriorate. elsewhere in japan, many shelters have been filled in for safety and goforever gone. >> reporter: this farmer's market sells a product called air raid shelter mushrooms. >> what do you think the name means? >> it's strange. >> do you know what air raid shelters are? >> something about the war. >> reporter: mushrooms are cultivated in a converted shelter in a residential area. the owner is this woman. she discovered the shelter after buying the property seven or so years ago. her first thought was that the large hole was dangerous. she later learned someone had dug it to flee from danger. >> translator: i saw traces of pick marks where someone had tried to expand it. it would have been easy to fill in the shelter, but i decided to preserve it. if i were toget rid of it, no one ould rember hat hapened hee. >> rerter:tokyo, kawaki and othercities reeavilybomed sh sprises thhelter w designed for children evacuated from bi

flagship, the uss missouri, anchored in tokyo bay. two copies of the official terms of surrender were signed at a small table on the missouri's deck, by representatives by each warring nation in this theater. this event officially marked the end of the war in the pacific. popularly known as victory over japan day, or v-j day. after years of long and bloody fighting, with the surrender of japan, the guns at left fell silent. with its last belligerent defeated, world war ii at long last came to an end. >> it's 75 years since that v-j day, oh do i remember it well even though it was 75 years ago. no i wasn't overseas at the time , i was in the army air corps base in florida, but what a day it was. how we celebrated, and we are celebrating it again today. i do recall though all of us then went on to different ways and among some of the things i did was writing books. one of them was a book of poetry, and one poem in it was a remembrance of that great v-j day. i will recite that for you now. here it is. world war ii is over, at last, it wa

i'm yoshi ogasawara in tokyo.e start this hour in new york where the united nations is canceling all in-person general assembly committee meetings scheduled for tuesday. it comes after five people of a mission of a member state tested positive for the coronavirus. it's not immediately clear which member state is involved but the u.n. said it is conducting contact tracing. the cancelations likely mean the committee vote on a japan-sponsored resolution to abolish nuclear weapons will be postponed. most u.n. staff that operate out of the new york headquarters have been working remotely since march. but more people have been returning to the office since july. >>> meanwhile, a top official at the world health organization is expressing concern about the latest surge of infections sweeping across europe. >> we are seeing very, very high positivity rates and an increasing lack of capacity to do any effective form of contact tracing. >> the two countries with the highest number of infections are france and spain. both ha

i'm raja pradhan in tokyo. coming up next is "newsline biz" with ramin mellegard.o stay right there. ♪ >>> this is "newsline biz." i'm ramin mellegard. japan's industry minister pledged to support private sector efforts to produce and supply coronavirus vaccines in the country. he visited the factory of drug manufacturer june general in geef few prefecture in central japan on wednesday. the company teamed up with a major pharmaceutical firm for vaccines for 30 million people by the end of 2021. >> translator: we want to ensure coronavirus vaccines will be available in japan as soon as possible by making the most of production bases like this. we hope the supply vaccines will help people economicc and sococ activity. >> kajiyama says they'll work to help companies boost a vaccine production. >>> a key gauge of business conditions in japan improved slightly in aust.gu that's promptedd an upward revision in the assessment of the economy for the first time in 15 months. the cabinet office says its coincident index tipped up 1.1 points in july, a third straight month of

i'm yamamoto miki in tokyo. >>> u.s.resident donald trump and joe biden are rallying support in swing states as the presidential campaign enters the final stretch. trump to to twitter to again allege that the democratic party marig the election that is three weekaway. the incumbent met his suppororts on monday in florida in the first rally since he left hospital where he received treatment for coronavirus infection. he is scheduled to visit swing states including pennsylvania and north carolina from tuesday, and hold large gatherings at airports. biden held a rally in florida on tuesday and criticized trump for his coronavirus responses. >> so many lives have been lost unnecessarily because this president cares more about the stock market than he does about the well-being of seniors. >> biden also plans to visit pennsylvania this week. u.s. political news wewebsite rl clear r politics says opinion polls showhehe average s suppor rate for biden is 51.6%, while that for trump stands at 41.6%. >>> turning to ongoing unrest

officials from the empire of japan signed surrender documents in a ceremony aboard the uss missouri in tokyo bay, formally bringing world war ii to a close. japanese emperor hirohito had announced japan's unconditional surrender days earlier on august 19, 1945. to mark the 75th anniversary the friends of the world war ii memorial hosted a online commemorative program including remarks from general mark milley and nbc author tom brokaw. >> good morning. i am the vice chair of the friends of the national world war ii memorial and the proud daughter of a world war ii veteran. thank you for joining us to celebrate the 75th anniversary of victory over japan day. or v-j day, the allied victories -- allied victory in the pacific and the end of world war ii, the deadliest conflict in human history. 75 years have passed since millions of people around the globe celebrated the end of world war ii. thank you for joining us to celebrate our world war ii veterans who served overseas. all of those who served on the home front and our allies who together helped defeat tyranny, preserve freedom, and literal

temperatures for tokyo, much cooler today.hursdays at 15 degrees, and it's not going to arrive much until sunday when it gets back to the low 20s. heavy rainfall will be coming your way. so please take care at all times. that's all your weather. >>> that's all for this edition of nhk "newsline." thank you very much for staying with us. ♪ >>> welcome to "newsline in depth." i'm shibuya akaki. >>> innovations such as artificial intelligence and robotics are changing our lives at a dizzying change. in three stories, we look at the promise of new technologies in everyday situations. across a range of fields, including agriculture, autos, and customer service. the latest breakthroughs have the potential to solve a host of social problems. we start in china. after being hit by the coronavirus, the country is accelerating its development of new infrastructure as part of efforts to restart the economy. >> reporter: on a busy street in shanghai, this taxi is being steered by technology alone. it's pa-- it offers passengers free ride. a

i am in a car in an unmarked garage somewhere in tokyo.thing any more. the lights have gone off and i have no idea what is happening. i should warn you, i have a very nervous disposition. can you make sure your doors locked? yeah, it is locked. oh, my god, lock the door. what is that? it is a radio. i am really, really scared. they say in an old garage in tokyo, there is some mysterious appearances. what is that noise? i can't look, i can't look! i don't want to look, i don't want to look! do you know what? i don't think i will ever go into a garage again. this is a haunted house but not as you know it because this is actually a haunted drive—in. in a time of covid—19, a group of factors, at least i hope they are actors, have come up with a socially distanced immersive, scary experience. look at it! he is so scary! and when i say scary iam notjoking. is he dead? did she kill him? oh, my goodness, i can't look. it runs like a short play and the story is told on the radio. the organisers say they are still working on an english version so my

i'm yamamoto miki in tokyo.lease stay safe and healthy, wherever you are. ♪ >>> welcome to "newsline in depth." >>> nearly five months have passed since the death of george floyd at the hands of u.s. police. even amid the pandemic, there has been no let up in the calls for an end to racial or other forms of discrimination. at the u.s. open tennis championships in september, osaka naomi wore facemasks representing victims of racial injustice. the protests have become a key issue in the upcoming presidential election. today, we meet american activist, the co-found of black lives matter and one of "time" magazine's 100 most influential people of 2020. we spoke with her in august about activism in the age of covid-19. >> we see that people are having to rise up now in this unique moment despite the fact that we're in a global pandemic that's what is alarming to so many people, even in the midst of a time where people are at home and should be safe and fine and taking care of their loved ones at home, it's still the

the tokyo stock exchange halted trading after its worst breakdown. coming up later, the world pose halts. etf trader we will speak to ishares' stephen cohen. the first, let's get to bloomberg first word news with laura. laura: continued because of economic uncertainty due to the pandemic, disappoint lenders such as jp morgan, which had already indicated it wanted to resume buybacks. the potentialed coronavirus vaccine from oxford university and astrazeneca. the so-called "rolling review" allows them to see a trial basis of what is ongoing. rises to the investigation that led to a halt in the trial. the format of the presidential debate is changing after the first clash between president trump and m aquatic challenger joe biden. organizers say they want to provide a different view. biting things candidates should be able to speak uninterrupted, but the trump campaign says rules changing are moving the goal post. financial services firms in the than 1.2 shifted more trillion pounds to the u.s. had of brexit. more are likely to follow in the coming week

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pandemic pushed the tokyo games to july of next year. beginning july 23rd you can watch here on nbc bay area. fingers crossed. >>> the city of angels may be sleepy this morning. >> lakers fans celebrated late into the night as the team won its first nba championship in ten years. you can see a lot of folks gathered near the staples center seemed to be ignoring experts' advice, were not socially distanced, were not wearing masks, but things were calm. the lakers led by more than 30 points for most of it winning 106-93 and lebron james won series mvp as the lakers beat miami four games to two. congratulations to them. >>> coming up on "today in the bay," president trump says he's, quote, immune from covid-19. the major swing state that he's heading to today. plus -- >>> it's so frustrating to, like, know that these kids are technically illiterate. >> why this exchange has two north bay teachers on administrative leave this morning. why o-cedar ? because when i get home, we like to play crocodile on the floor o-cedar easywring removes over

0lympic get their own back by messing up the tokyo olympic games.daisy, jack thinks this will be an incredibly weak james bond film. do you agree? anything that has to deal with hacking does seem a bit nerdy and a basement somewhere, but hacking is big business now. notjust as far as disrupting lives, but also financially and a lot of these russian hackers who are linked to the russian government and security forces have done huge damage to stock markets across the world, to businesses across the world and i think it is quite exciting from a british point of view and dominic raab is artie been doing a bit of a hooray for me on this front. british services were involved in this investigation and it's also interesting to see that they were thwarted ultimately in the tokyo games because they never happen. but actually the same investigation has shown that the opening ceremony of the winter games two years ago was successfully hacked by these same hackers have been arrested in this joint uk, us staying and that they managed to hack into the wi—fi of the

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. >> when we commemorate in the 2nd of september the signing of missouri in tokyo bay of the set rendered instrument in which the imperial japanese empire surrendered to the united states, we were represented principally by general douglas mcarthur and chief admiral -- the surrender was long and controversial. the decision in japan wins much contradicted and much worrying i guess i could call yet from various organizations in various parts of the pacific that's not happening. to use a quotation of winston churchill, succeeding generations must not forget the triumphs and sacrifices made by the citizens and soldiers who prosecuted them. >> my name is jeff and it's my honor to serve as the superintendent of the park in the nation's capital. it's my pleasure to speak with the front of the world war ii memory one of the many memorials and the national parks. they commemorate our nation's military legacy and honor the veterans (inaudible) this year marks the 75th anniversary at the end of world war ii. and vj day marks the final commemoration of those come embraces. this year might be one of o

joining us exclusively from tokyo is ntt president and ceo june.hank you so much for your time today. it's great to have you on. let me just ask you a simple, straightforward question. why are you doing this now? >> yes. tonk you very much, shery, have an opportunity to talk to you. out in that carry we want to strengthen dell,. sat down in a circumstancend the it is coming to, changing, changing. -- come to us by coronavirus, coronavirus. to --everything is going defined, mobile and -- much more. to purchase -- in order to much more good collaboration. sir, how do you plan to fund that to carry out this deal which will cost ¥4.3 trillion? we know your net debt has actually increased in the past two years. jun: yes, that's right. it's at the end of march. 4.7 3 trillion yen. -- ¥4.73 trillion. the assets, for leasing businesses, has already been off balance. we can -- more than ¥1 trillion. now even we have a ¥3.6 trillion debt, and in this case, the it'sional ¥4.3 trillion, on there very focused limitation of our target. 6 are going to reduce -- t