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00:00Welcome to Newsroom Tokyo. I'm Yamasawa Rina. And I'm Raja Pada. Here are the headlines.
00:17Japan's Prime Minister says she's looking to hit the ground running following her party's landslide win in the lower house election.
00:24Meanwhile, Tokyo stocks continue to react to the election result, with the Nikkei average hitting a record high for the second consecutive day.
00:35And it's been four months since the Gaza ceasefire took effect. We talked to a specialist about the current and future challenges the enclave residents face.
00:43Japan's Prime Minister, Takai-chi Sanae, says she wants to get moving on putting her campaign pledges into action following her party's historic victory in the lower house election.
00:57The main ruling Liberal Democratic Party won an overwhelming majority on Sunday.
01:05As a united party, we will grit our teeth and fulfill the promises we have made to the people.
01:11During the campaign, the LDP pledged to speed up talks about suspending the consumption tax on food items for a period of two years.
01:21Takai-chi said she's eager to push ahead so an interim report can be compiled by summer at the latest.
01:27The government and ruling parties are arranging to convene a special diet session on February 18th.
01:33Takai-chi is expected to be re-elected as Prime Minister and form a new cabinet.
01:37The Prime Minister says she'll keep the current lineup more or less unchanged.
01:43She's also asked the LDP's coalition partner, the Japan Innovation Party, to consider joining her cabinet, and its leader says he's receptive to the idea.
01:54Officially, nobody has approached us yet.
01:58But if they do, I would certainly consider it positively.
02:01But J.I.P. members are divided over whether to join.
02:08The ruling coalition still lacks a majority in the upper house,
02:12but it aims to pass a draft budget for the next fiscal year as early as possible through the upcoming diet session.
02:18Takai-chi's policies were also the focus of investors.
02:24Yenaka-mari from our business team brings us the market reaction.
02:27So, Marie, Tokyo stocks rallied for a second day after the election, right?
02:31Yes, investors bought across the board, Raja.
02:34The benchmark Nikkei 225 closed at a record high for the second straight day on Tuesday.
02:40Investors are hoping Prime Minister Takai-chi's policies to ramp up government spending will spur economic growth.
02:50The index finished the day at 57,650, rising nearly 2.3 percent.
02:56It briefly approached the 58,000 mark led by semiconductor-related shares.
03:02Now, the Nikkei has been surging under Takai-chi.
03:05The benchmark is up over 25 percent since she became leader of the Liberal Democratic Party in October.
03:14The LDP's sweeping victory in Sunday's general election makes it easier for the Prime Minister to implement what she calls a responsible, proactive fiscal policy.
03:25On to currencies.
03:27The yen gained in Tokyo on Tuesday, trading in the lower 155 level against the dollar.
03:33Now, yen strength is the opposite of what many investors thought would happen after Takai-chi's landmark victory.
03:40But the move actually originated from the dollar side.
03:44That's after reports that China advised domestic financial institutions to curb their holdings of U.S. treasuries.
03:52The dollar started to weaken the previous day in New York.
03:56This was after Bloomberg News reported regulators in China urged banks to reduce U.S. bond purchases.
04:03That prompted selling of the greenback against a basket of major currencies, including the yen.
04:10The dollar's weakness was also linked to concerns about the American economy, which stemmed from comments by a White House economic advisor.
04:19Referring to U.S. job numbers in the coming months, Kevin Hassett said,
04:23One shouldn't panic if you see a sequence of numbers that are lower than you're used to.
04:29Market sources say it's unlikely Chinese banks will dump U.S. treasuries.
04:35But they say investors remain especially sensitive amid uncertainties about the policies of the Trump administration.
04:41Videotape, then DVD, then Blu-ray.
04:47Or that was how home viewing was expected to evolve until streaming found its way into living rooms.
04:54Japan's Sony was a big backer of the Blu-ray format when it was introduced in the 2000s.
04:59But the electronics giant says it will phase out shipments of machines that record and play the discs starting this month.
05:07Blu-ray was once seen as the successor to DVD, capable of handling large amounts of high-definition video.
05:16The company says the decision reflects a drop in demand as streaming services have become more popular.
05:23Sony entered the Blu-ray market in 2003 ahead of its competitors.
05:27But industry figures show overall shipments fell to 620,000 units last year, compared with a peak of nearly 6.4 million in 2011.
05:40Now a check on stock markets in the Asia-Pacific.
05:44Tokyo's Nikkei average wasn't the only benchmark to close at an all-time high.
05:48Taiwan's TAIX did the same, finishing above the 33,000 mark for the first time.
05:54Index heavyweight TSMC had a good day.
05:57That's after the Financial Times reported that its chips would be exempt from the Trump administration's next wave of semiconductor tariffs.
06:05The rest of the region only had small gains for the most part, as investors were cautious ahead of U.S. jobs data.
06:12And that's the biz for this Tuesday.
06:14Tuesday marks four months since a U.S.-led ceasefire took effect in Gaza following two years of devastating conflict.
06:31But authorities in the enclave say it's been a truce in name only, while Israel accuses Hamas of violating the agreement.
06:39This month, the Rafah border crossing with Egypt reopened.
06:44It comes after Washington announced the start of phase two of the peace plan.
06:49Residents returning for the first time in two years found neighborhoods reduced to rubble, with many people still living in tents.
06:56Israel has continued to launch sporadic attacks in Gaza, claiming ceasefire violations by Hamas.
07:15Health authorities in the enclave say 581 people have died in the four months since the truce began.
07:22To get an insight into Gaza's future, I spoke to Keio University professor Nishikida Aiko.
07:31She specializes in Middle East politics, focusing on the Israel-Palestine conflict.
07:38So it's been four months since the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas took effect, but attack by the Israeli army has continued.
07:49How do you see the situation so far?
07:51The meaning of the ceasefire is very significant, because there have been a long, long war continuing in Gaza, more than two years.
08:00And between those two years, there have been scarcely no ceasefire moment.
08:06So at least for the people in Gaza, they can enjoy some relatively calm situation without bombardment, without daily evacuation.
08:14So in that sense, the ceasefire is very significant.
08:18But still, as we hear from a broadcast, there's a fighting continue in some places.
08:25So in that way, the ceasefire doesn't mean the complete stop of the fighting.
08:33Nishikida is particularly concerned about health care in Gaza.
08:37There's a heavy shortage of the food and medicine.
08:42So in that sense, even if the Rafah border crossing is opened, the opening is very limited.
08:49And only a few, only about 50 patients have been evacuated to Egypt.
08:55But more than 20,000 patients are still waiting to leave Gaza, needing their treatment in a very serious condition.
09:04They include the seriously injured people and also the patients who are suffering from cancer.
09:10So in that sense, the total opening of the Rafah border for every needed person.
09:18The Board of Peace announced by President Trump will oversee the transitional governance of Gaza.
09:24The U.S. repository plans to hold the first meeting as early as February 19th.
09:32Fundraising for reconstruction is expected to be on the agenda.
09:36But Nishikida thinks there may be a gap between what the U.S. is trying to achieve and what people in Gaza want.
09:44For the people in Gaza is more support material and coming into the Gaza and more people who need to treatment in Egypt can go out of Gaza.
09:57And another important thing is they can return to Gaza if they want, because this point is becoming very unclear these days.
10:05So with those assurance, the emergent humanitarian assistance in Gaza is very important.
10:14But what we see Trump is planning to do is maybe more like investment and economic development plan in Gaza, not only reconstruction,
10:26but for more economic benefit of maybe the United States or the other Western countries.
10:33So what do you think is needed to have the lasting peace?
10:38Is there any role the international community, including Japan, can take?
10:44The most important thing is a trust building between the Israeli side and Palestinian side.
10:49And now, after more than two years' war, and especially after the devastating attack by Hamas on October 7th,
10:58the Israeli side is very suspicious toward the Palestinian side, including leftist people.
11:04Israeli leftist group are becoming so much weakened, I guess.
11:11And also for the Palestinian side, they can have strong anger or the feeling of revenge toward Israel.
11:17So those strong feelings can provide, can prepare.
11:22These strong feelings can prepare for the second fighting or the second next chance of fighting.
11:29So in order to eliminate this possibility of the further fighting, there should be a trust building between the Israeli and Palestinian side.
11:39And in that sense, third parties' contribution or help is very required.
11:43In that sense, maybe the European countries and the Western countries, and also the Asian countries, including Japan, can contribute for those trust building.
11:54Nishikida emphasized that Gaza's reconstruction will depend on financial support from the international community.
12:01But there's also another major issue in phase two of the peace plan, which is demilitarization.
12:09Both of these challenges will need to be overcome if there is to be any hope of a sustainable peace.
12:16As Nishikida said, Trump's Board of Peace may not answer the immediate needs of Gaza's people.
12:22But for now, it could be the best chance they have.
12:28Next, a Venezuelan opposition leader has gone missing soon after he was released from detention.
12:34His family claims he was abducted.
12:37The Venezuelan government has been freeing opposition officials and other figures since U.S. forces captured President Nicolás Maduro over a month ago.
12:47Juan Pablo Guanipa left prison on Sunday.
12:50He's an ally of opposition leader and 2025 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Maria Corina Machado.
12:57His family says he was abducted by unidentified assailants after addressing his supporters following his release.
13:04Guanipa's son has demanded the government provide proof of life.
13:09The public prosecutor's office said in a statement on Monday it's asked the court to revoke Guanipa's release, citing a violation of the terms.
13:16It called for him to be put under house arrest, but did not mention his current whereabouts.
13:22U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has said the release of political prisoners is an important step toward free and fair elections in Venezuela.
13:33There's been international outcry over a Hong Kong court's harsh sentence for Jimmy Lai.
13:39The former media mogul was handed 20 years in prison for violating the national security law.
13:46Critics say it's another sign that freedom of speech in Hong Kong will soon be long gone.
13:53Lai ran the now-defunct pro-democracy paper Apple Daily and was accused of colluding with foreign forces.
14:00Prosecutors claimed he incited hatred against the Chinese government and called on foreign countries to impose sanctions on China and Hong Kong.
14:10Lai is a long-standing supporter of the pro-democracy movement.
14:13He's denied all charges, saying he merely expressed his own views.
14:18Apple Daily was known for publishing articles critical of the Chinese government.
14:22It was shut down in 2021 after authorities froze its assets.
14:26China's foreign ministry spokesperson says Lai deserves his punishment.
14:34Lai's actions severely breached the one country, two systems principle, seriously threatened national security,
14:42and damaged Hong Kong's prosperity, stability and well-being of its citizens.
14:47Lai is 78 years old and a British citizen.
14:51The U.K.'s foreign secretary is calling for his release, describing the prosecution as politically motivated.
15:00Yvette Cooper says Beijing's national security law was imposed on Hong Kong to silence China's critics.
15:07U.S. Secretary of State Rubio calls the sentencing unjust and tragic.
15:12He's urging authorities to grant Lai humanitarian parole.
15:16Japan's top government spokesperson also expressed concern.
15:19HON.
15:21HON.
15:23Incidents like this continue to undermine trust in Hong Kong's one country, two systems framework.
15:30We call on Chinese and Hong Kong authorities to respect the rights and freedoms of Hong Kong citizens,
15:36while we work closely with the international community to strongly urge them to speak out as well.
15:42People have marked 25 years since the maritime tragedy of Hawaii.
15:50They remembered those who died when a training ship carrying Japanese high school students collided with a U.S. Navy submarine.
15:58More than 20 people, including bereaved family members, attended the ceremony on Monday.
16:07The Ehimemaru sunk after it was struck by the nuclear-powered USS Greenville on February 9th, 2001.
16:15The vessel belonged to a Uajima Fishery High School in Western Japan.
16:21Nine died, including four students.
16:28Participants observed a moment of silence at 1.43 p.m., the time of the accident.
16:34The names of the victims were read out.
16:42Mizuguchi Tatsuyoshi is the father of one of the students who died.
16:49I'm grateful to be able to attend the ceremony even after 25 years.
16:53I hope such an accident will never happen again.
16:56The widow of a teacher said she was stunned so much time has passed.
17:04She said those who were lost will never return,
17:07so she wants people to continue thinking about the value of life.
17:11There were more dramatic developments in Thai politics on Monday following Sunday's general election.
17:30Cholapan Sanaluna in our Bangkok studio has the details.
17:33Dozens of current and former progressive lawmakers in Thailand are facing potential lifetime bans from politics.
17:42They're accused of breaching ethical standards over a failed bid to change the royal insult law.
17:50Thailand's Anti-Corruption Commission made the finding against 44 people.
17:54Among the accused is the leader of the reformist Opposition People's Party,
17:58Natapong Reng Panjiawut and other senior members.
18:01If the Supreme Court finds them guilty, it could prohibit them from any further participation in politics.
18:08The development is a second major blow for the People's Party.
18:12It comes after the party suffered a heavy defeat to the ruling conservative Pum Jai Thai Party in the weekend election.
18:19Prime Minister Anutin Chan-Miragun, who heads the Pum Jai Thai, is set to lead coalition talks.
18:25Media reports suggest the likely candidates are the Pua Thai Party and the Kla Tham Party,
18:30projected to come third and fourth respectively.
18:34Anutin has said he will wait for the final results before discussing the matter.
18:39Japanese firms are increasingly casting their nets further afield in search of the best young talent from abroad.
18:46Many are looking to Southeast Asia as a promising hunting ground for AI savvy and other recruits.
18:5213 Japanese firms are in Singapore on Saturday for the Arsene Career Fair with Japan.
18:58The event attracted more than 600 people.
19:02Tokyo-based NLK makes high-performance sealing devices to prevent oil leaks.
19:07It's hoping to snare workers with expertise in AI and robotics who can help the firm expand into new businesses.
19:14The firm sent its head of R&D to speak with the prospective recruits.
19:20We are open to any background student, whether they speak Japanese or not.
19:28If you are passionate about Japan and NLK Corporation Japan and what kind of research we have been doing,
19:34you know, so we are happy to welcome you at our company.
19:40The Fairjoo students from many of Asia's most prestigious universities.
19:46Japan is also always at the forefront of innovation and technology,
19:49so being able to understand what the current companies, current Japanese companies are working on would also be beneficial to us.
19:55Japanese firms have their work cut out for them.
19:59They face intense competition for young Asian talent from the rivals in countries including China and South Korea.
20:08Timor-Leste is Asia's youngest nation and one of its smallest.
20:12It gained independence from Indonesia's rule in 2002 after years of struggle.
20:17It joined the Association of Southeast Asian Nations just last year, but its economy has plenty of room to grow.
20:23It hopes to expand international trade and, critically, to bring more tourists from abroad.
20:30Timor-Leste's population is only about 1.4 million and jobs are scarce.
20:36The economy relies heavily on remittances from overseas, accounting for nearly 9 percent of GDP,
20:43the second largest revenue earner after oil and gas.
20:48Support from my brother is essential.
20:51I use it to pay my school tuition.
20:54Even after graduating, it's difficult to find a job here.
20:58One ray of hope is tourism.
21:01In neighboring Indonesia, the industry is well-developed.
21:05So, Timor-Leste has invited experts to learn ASEAN-level standards of hygiene and service to improve what it has to offer.
21:14We are still in the early stage, developing national standards.
21:19I find them valuable not only benchmark, but also guide and help.
21:25One success story can be seen on Ataro Island, about two and a half hours by boat from the capital, Dili.
21:34Both job creation and traditional culture are on full display.
21:38Few of the residents have stable incomes, and the island has long functioned at a subsistence level.
21:46But one workshop stands out, employing around 40 people.
21:55Using traditional sewing techniques, they turn out stuffed toys and bags.
22:00The designs are inspired by the island's natural environment, the fish and the ocean.
22:08They have proven popular with tourists and are attracting international buyers.
22:13An employee named Dominguez de Araujo says the income has enabled her to send her daughter to university.
22:26Thanks to the workshop, I've been able to make a living.
22:30Without this job, it would have been really tough.
22:32One of the workshop's founders was Virginia Soares, who wanted to provide residents with steady livelihoods.
22:43She is also working to expand the skills and know-how to others on the island,
22:49including women who create traditional textiles.
22:53Incorporating their fabrics into the workshop's products helps provide these women with incomes as well.
22:59Seeing folks at the workshop making some money really pushed us to work harder.
23:10It has raised my confidence.
23:13Soares takes things a step further by helping to promote the resulting creations at events and with tourists.
23:20For many, the money is essential for them to take care of their families as mothers and grandmothers.
23:32I hope this work can help them provide for their loved ones.
23:40Tima Leste is keen to welcome more visitors.
23:43That makes it essential to develop tourism and related industries.
23:47Not only can this support people's livelihoods,
23:51it can lay the groundwork to put the country on a long-term path to economic stability.
23:59That's a bulletin. I'm Cholop Han Sanarula in Bangkok.
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26:22A community in western Japan has had a visit from the seven gods of good fortune.
26:27Locals dressed as the deities descended on home Sunday to pray for good harvest and good health.
26:36The traditional event in the Anne district of Kanzaki city in Saga prefecture dates back more than three centuries.
26:44Members of a local group dedicated to preserving it put on costumes and chanted the message of luck as they walked around the community.
26:55The seven also stopped by the meeting hall of a municipal housing complex.
27:01They sang no chants and uttered prayers in exchange for food and drinks from the residents.
27:10I usually don't dress up like this, so it's fresh and fun.
27:15It's all about bringing good luck to everyone in the community.
27:20Members of the preservation group say they hope to keep the tradition alive.
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27:33And I'm Yamasawa Rina.
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