NHK Radio News (released on 27th Sept. 2023 at 11 am)

27th September 2023 NHK news at 11am JST (午前11時のNHKニュース）

 

1. BoJ published minutes of monetary policy meeting

Bank of Japan revised its monetary policy at the monetary policy meeting held last July. Opinions of board members included that this revision was to justify continuing its monetary easing. At the meeting in July, Bank of Japan revised its monetary policy and decided that it would accept the maximum increase of 1 percentage point in Japan's 10-year government bond yields considering the market trend. 

On the stable 2% inflation target, many board members are seeing that it is not yet ready to forecast achieving the target along with wage increases. However, one of the members believes it should be able to judge the feasibility of the target by next January to March, thus, opinions on the timeline of this 2% target vary among board members.


2. Court rejected arrest warrant for South Korea's opposition party leader

Prosecutors requested an arrest warrant for leader of the largest opposition party in South Korea for suspicion of malfeasance during his service as mayor and alleged involvement in the illegal remittance to North Korea. 

Nevertheless, the court said that it was difficult to say that there was sufficient reason or need to arrest the opposition leader, Mr Lee. Mr Lee has been opposing to the current administration by claiming the release of Fukushima nuclear power palant waste water will be recorded as the second Pacific war, and the investigation he underwent was political suppression.

The conflict between the ruling and opposition parties is predicted to get more and more intense for the coming general election.

 

3. North Korea criticized Japan for Fukushima water release

North Korea's ambassador delivered a speech at the United Nations General Assembly and claimed that the release of wastewater from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant caused irrevocable damage to humanity and the marine environment. The ambassador of Japan countered that the concentration of Tritium in seawater or marine products is proven to be well below the standard. 

After that, North Korea again criticized Japan but Japanese ambassador refuted once again that the Japanese government would continue to explain the discharge with transparency and will continue to discuss details based on scientific evidence.


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