for a trees in israel and the netherlands are already quite busy and now scientists at the university of tokyo of also presented their 1st lab or a tree stake. a one by one centimeter piece of flesh a delicacy from the laboratory meat fibers made from the vein cells of a cow that scientists at the university of tokyo proudly show the result of years of work these and similar methods could soon feed people all over the world using. 2050 the world population will reach about 9000000000 it will be difficult for traditional meat produced by breeding animals to meet people's needs artificial meat as an alternative shows its necessity and it could lab meat become a viable substitute for this. the fat cells blood vessels and bones that are so important for flavor need years to develop inside a cow flavor like that can't be produced in a laboratory but the researchers are working on it as well as on the price of meat grown in laboratories currently costs about $700.00 euros per kilogram but now a laboratory in israel says it's dramatically lowered the costs and promises a price per kilogram of about t

>>> the japanese government announced it will stop issuing visas to new research students of the tokyo university of social welfare that school has lost contact with more than 1,000 foreign students in the last three years. the government says the students drop out but are still able to stay in the country legally because of their student visas this is the first time japan will restrict foreign students atany university >>> here at home, the governor of alabama signed into law a bill requiring anyone convicted of a sex offense against a child under the age of 13 to begin chemical castration a month before release the individuals must continue treatment until a court deems it no longer necessary. several other states have versions of chemical castration on the books as well >>> north of the border, canada announcing it will ban many single use mastic items by 2021. including plastic bags, straws, and cutlery. they announced the measures calling it a problem that we simply cannot ignore >>> you're up to date. that is the news update this hour, guys i'm going to send it back downtown to you, morgan.

traditional farming community, slow paced, inward looking, the opposite end of the universe, culturally, from new york and tokyofive-hour trip from tokyo, now reduced to two by the shinkansen bullet train. why don't we have these in america, by the way? ask your congressmen. this rather drab, featureless place is where masa was born and raised and could well have stayed. but then, everything would have been different. masa's dad, yoshio, recently passed. but his mom, ishi is still going strong, the center of the family. >> masa: [ speaking japanese ] >> ishi: yeah. >> catherine: nice to meet you! >> ishi: [ speaking japanese ] >> masa: thank you! tony, tony. >> anthony: pleased to meet you. ♪ catherine is masa's daughter. california raised, but a frequent visitor to the family home. she and her grandmother are preparing some familiar comfort foods to celebrate masa's homecoming. >> masa: [ speaking japanese ] >> anthony: motsuni is a slow simmered stew of pork tripe, konnyaku, daikon, green onions, and miso. >> catherine: [ speaking japanese ] >> masa: very different food, right? this is the country food. [ lau

we're joined by nancy snow a professor of public diplomacy at the kyoto university of foreign studies and she's joining us live from tokyoery good to have you with us on al-jazeera so how much do you saying that president trump the various issues that he's at the center of would set the agenda for this 20th anniversary of the g 20 summit. you know i think trump has to be very careful here because he's sharing the stage with the other leaders there's a reason why this is called the g. 20 and actually i am in osaka and it's been very interesting day one has been to rancho rey we hope they'll be a little bit more sun in the next couple of days but trump had a very successful visit to japan and then he went on to the u.k. but just right that kind of tone in his tweets towards the other world later this is what has led to a lot of debates of notice domestically but also globally where the u.s. is losing its salt power and its rhetoric and again we had the same head strike of the same ahead of the g. 7 on g. 20 summits so what do you think he gets doing this so he's hoping to get out of this g. 20 summit has an important time

of the alliance for journalists' freedom. he was imprisoned for 400 days . and joseph fernandez media law , academic at curtin university >>> hello. a very warm welcome to "nhk newsline." it's 9:00 a.m. on wednesday in tokyom miki yamamoto. as the one-year anniversary of the u.s./north korea summit approaches. donald trump and kim jong un have taken their relationship to a new level, pen pals. >> i just received a beautiful letter from kim jong un. i can't show you the letter obviously. but it was a personal, warm, nice letter. a