while enjoying taiwan, we're working for our people in taiwan. >> yes, indeed. what was your impression of the different cities to have visited? taipei, people think it is very different from others. you have been to other places in taiwan as well. this may not be a fair question, but do you have a favorite city? >> i do not have any favorite. as long as it is good to be run, to be safe and secure, friendly people, taipei and other parts of taiwan, i liked it very much. >> i understand your family is here with you. your son is back home in indonesia. they come for a visit. as a family, did you have to make adjustments in terms of adapting to life in taiwan? >> i do not think so anymore. i have been around. i was in london. i have been around. with chinese dissidents, there are more than 50 million people there. it is good. it looks like at home. -- with chinese descendants, there are more than 50 million people there. for me, it is not difficult for me to adapt myself to taiwan's environment. i like to be here. >> talking about jakarta, is one of the largest cit

>> i like parts of taiwan. fishing, for example, in the summertime -- we usually go fishing at night. i have a group of friends of mine and we go over night from six to six. we take a boat and go to the sea, for at least 12 hours. we have this sort of hobby. >> we certainly would like to see you stay in taiwan as long as you can. if you get reassigned to a different post and people ask you how was your 17 years in taiwan, how would you describe your experience in taiwan, working and living on the island since 1995? collects it is a wonderful experience. taiwan is my second home. i have more friends here because i have been away for a long time. i created more friends here. when i go home nowadays i miss taiwan because i feel like it is home. >> if we have younger people who are watching our program today and if they may be interested in the career of becoming a diplomat for taiwan, based on your experience what would be different when they should to them -- what would be your recommendation to them? >> i am not

while enjoying taiwan, we're working for our people in taiwan. >> yes, indeed. what was your impression of the different cities to have visited? taipei, people think it is very different from others. you have been to other places in taiwan as well. this may not be a fair question, but do you have a favorite city? >> i do not have any favorite. as long as it is good to be run, to be safe and secure, friendly people, taipei and other parts of taiwan, i liked it very much. >> i understand your family is here with you. your son is back home in indonesia. they come for a visit. as a family, did you have to make adjustments in terms of adapting to life in taiwan? >> i do not think so anymore. i have been around. i was in london. i have been around. with chineseissints, there are me tn 50illi people there. it is good. it looks like at home. -- with chinese descendants, there are more than 50 million people there. for me, it is not difficult for me to adapt myself to taiwan's environment. i like to be here. >> talking about jakarta, is one of the largest cities in asia.

welcome to a new edition of "taiwan outlook." the program presents a different faces and lets you hear the different stories on taiwan. i am your host. population in new zealand. more and more students are going to new zealand for working holiday. on today's program, we are delighted to have a conversation with the current president, director, and founder of prestige lawyers in auckland, new zealand. welcome to the program. >> it is nice to be here. >> it is a delight to have on the program. let's start off with a fundamental question. why did you want to be a lawyer? were there any reasons or motivations or models you look death or life lessons you learned? >> initially, i wanted to be a politician. i started my university training in taiwan in the area of political science. >> that is still possible, you know. >> after my family migrated to new zealand, i came to the law school there thinking a law degree might give me a good foundation to do something for taiwan's sunday in a diplomatic capacity. -- 4 tie 1 sunday in a diploma

and different stories about taiwan. the sunshine social welfare foundation is a leading ngo in taiwan that looks after the welfare and benefits of burn victims and survivors. on today's program, we are delighted to have our guests, and international affairs -- list at the sunshine welfare foundation to discuss the kinds of programs and services available. welcome to the program. >> thank you. >> can we start off the program by asking you a little bit about the background of the sunshine social welfare foundation? >> the sunshine social welfare foundation was established in 1981 by a group of people who felt that the needs of burn survivors and people with facial disfigurement were not addressed. it all started with a book written by a burn survivor called people who shun the sunshine. in this took, the lady expressed difficulties going back to society after her injury and their ejection seat -- the rejection she faced not only in the workplace but in society. a group of people after reading this book were very touched.

and different stories about taiwan. the sunshine social welfare foundation is a leading ngo in taiwan that looks after the welfare and benefits of burn victims and survivors. on today's program, we are delighted to have our guests, and international affairs -- list at the sunshine welfare foundation to discuss the kinds of programs and services available. welcome to the program. >> thank you. >> can we start off the program by asking you a little bit about the background of the sunshine social welfare foundation? >> the sunshine social welfare foundation was established in 1981 by a group of people who felt that the needs of burn survivors and people with facial disfigurement were not addressed. it all started with a book written by a burn survivor called people who shun the sunshine. in this took, the lady expressed difficulties going back to society after her injury and their ejection seat -- the rejection she faced not only in the workplace but in society. a group of people after reading this book were very touched.

jpen controls the islands but china and taiwan claim them. >>> chinese leaders have moved to show the world they're transparent about military matters. commanders invited 70 foreign journalists into a base for a rare visit. reporters from japan and europe entered the site outside xian in shanxi province on monday. they watched a drill ahead of army day this week. army personnel role played a scenario that enemy planes were attacking china. they used older equipment in the demonstration, but didn't bring out new ground-to-air missiles known to be deployed at the base. officials say the newer devices are being used in training sessions elsewhere. chinese leaders are planning to boost their military but they've kept quiet on the details of their defense budget. >> taiwan's defense minster has resigned. kao hua-chu stepped down after the public outcry over the death of a young soldier. hung chung-chiu died of heat stroke at the beginning of this month. officer had forced him to exercise vigorously and denied him water. they were punishing him for bringing a mobile phone with a camera on t

looks like it could even make landfall in taiwan or southeastern china over the weekend. the gusts are already packing 252 kilometers an hour. so life threatening rip currents as well as storm swell surge, these will be a huge concern. not only that but this is helping to feed the heat, too. take a look at these temperatures. soaring at 93 degrees in katsunuma. if it does rain again today in tokyo, that will be record history, consecutive days. tokyo still in the heat advisory area. we're likely to see those temperatures really reach that. north korea is receiving heavy rain across the area. temperatures are shaping up like this. 35 yet again in tokyo. in the forecast 33 both in bangkok and in manila with chances of thunderstorms. i'll leave you now for the extended forecast. >>> and that's all for this edition of "newsline." i'm catherine kobayashi in tokyo. thanks for joining us.

we will try to regain their trust. >> taiwan is kanebo's overseas market, it accounts for 30% of the country's international sales. the agent says sales in taiwan have dropped 20% since kanebo announced the problems. >>> here are the latest market figures. many people who live in areas of japan hit by disaster find they are losing hope. they're not happy with the pace of reconstruction after the earthquake and tsunami two years ago. and some feel life will never be the same. some have turned to alcohol to ease their pain. nhk has their story. >> reporter: this man in his 60s lives alone in a temporary housing unit in ishinomaki, miyagi prefecture. he lost his wife and suffered insomnia. he dealt with his loneliness by drinking. he ended up drinking from morning to night. at times, he would finish off four liters, about a gallon of hard licker in one day. >> translator: i drank and drank, because i wanted to die. i felt guilty for letting my wife go first. i felt sorry. and there was nothing i could do, so i drank. >> reporter: this man is a clinical saijo therapist of the he's part o

as you can see, taiwan is next in the line of fire. beyond that we could see a second landfall in southeastern china over the weekend. what we are going to be seeing here is rough seeas. you could see waves up to seven meters as well as flooding rains and destructive winds on land. already the winds are sustained at 180 kilometers per hour with gusts over 250. so a very dangerous and powerful system here. there is more rain up towards the north. it''s been a little bit more persistent. all of the rain from northern japan across the korean peninsula focused on north korea there and into northern china. this has been falling for the last several days. to the tune of about 50 to 100 or 200 millimeters a day in some places. it's falling on saturated land. that will up the risk of flooding. just below that we have a high keeping things hot and dry. that will be the story for the next few days as well. strong high pressure system here keeping things hot. tokyo tomorrow at 34. 37 in shanghai. 36 in chongquing. let's talk about chantal, headed

. >>> there's a tropical storm south of taiwan. meteorologist robert speta is here with the latest. >> we are continue to watch our latest tropical storm continuing to roll off towards the north. it is just north of the philippines, south of taiwan and bringing heavy rainfall across northern portions of the philippines coming ashore. also towards southern taiwan we're seeing the outer rain bands push ashore. this is the late place you want rain because last friday we saw landfall of the typhoon and that brought tremendous amount of rainfall across the country. as this pushes through it zkz like that is going to be happening. with that said, it does have winds gusting up to 90 kilometers per hour but not expected to maintain its intensity. a slight weakening before it makes landfall here along the southeastern coast when it makes lawful there. but the main threat with this is going to be that considered rainfall coming out of this. southern taiwan and then eventually after that pushes ashore. we want to watch this but let's pull bac

china and taiwan both claim the territory. the report says some ships behaved so dangerously they could have caused emergencies. it says china's expanding maritime activity is a regional and international threat. a chinese government spokesperson dismissed the white paper's findings. >> translator: some of the assessments in japan's report are not based on fact. china has been conducting normal maritime activities in line with domestic and international law. >> the spokesperson added the japanese government has recently been triggering regional tension and confrontation by overstating the threat posed by china. >>> japan's nuclear regulator will begin processing applications found by four power companies to restart their nuclear reactors. the utilities submitted their applications on monday to restart ten reactors at five plants. the five include the tomari plant run by the electric power company and the ohi and takahama plant. operated by konsai electric. the others are ikata plant and the sendai plant. the nuclear regulation

taiwan, directly in its path, bore the brunt of the extreme weather. seen such a strong typhoon since i moved here 40 years ago. >> the homes of more than 8500 people were evacuated, most from the south, as the center of the storm passed across the capital taipei in the north. their, a patrolling policeman was killed and dozens more injured by flying debris. >> we found a lot of fallen trees and debris on the street. we are trying to clear the debris as soon as we can. >> more than 100 shelters were set to accommodate the evacuees, the soldiers, and emergency crews working to contain the damage and restore power to more than 520,000 homes. the damages build expected to be in the tens of millions of dollars with crops destroyed and businesses flooded. >> in france, investigators are looking for the point failure as they try to find out why a train carrying almost four and 2000 people crashed in the south of paris. at least six people died. many more were hurt. >> the death toll is provisional because we are waiting for a very strong crane coming from th

a super typhoon killed one person and injured seven others after making land over taiwan. people were evacuated and the island has been placed under alert. experiencing land slides have taken shelter in government buildings. what more do we know? they were all from taipei, the capital in the north of the country. the person that was killed was a police officer who was on his way home. he was hit in the head i am flying brick. the injured also from taipei. as you mentioned, 7000 have been evacuated. 5000 of those buried in the south. the concern down there is many -- much of the mountainous areas have been destabilized by the earthquakes that taipei has been experiencing recently. they want to make sure those mountains do not move and cause damage to the villagers and people living in them which has happened in the past. this is the first typhoon to hit taiwan since august of last year. two ared six people and missing. there was concern that this typhoon packing winds -- there was plenty of warning as you suggested as the typhoon moved across from the pacific. it was moving

people in southwestern japan and taiwan are feeling the effects of a powerful typhoon heading their way. we have the latest in world weather. >> good morning, catherine. as you can see the system is tracking ever so closely towards the i lands of japan and it will be moving into taiwan in the next 72 hours. it's a strong ty fan we have been tracking that is going to be affecting the southwestern islands already with waves up to 12 meters high. taiwan is still feeling those waves up to about three meters, but the stormy weather will impact around the big city of taipai. okinawa has been seeing this very stormy weather after it makes land fall it will be decreasing intensity and moving towards southern parts of china over the weekend. and as you can see it will be a gusty effect as well as drenching downpours to talk about. there is a rain band that is bringing hefty amounts of rainfall across japan and north korea as well as parts of china. 100 millimeters have been found in the past 24 hours, even more. 170 have been found here in north korea. into 72 hours, we are likely to see 200 mil

people in southwestern japan and taiwan are feeling the effects of a powerful typhoon heading their way. we have the latest in world weather. >> good morning, catherine. as you can see the system is tracking ever so closely towards the i lands of japan and it will be moving into taiwan in the next 72 hours. it's a strong ty fan we have been tracking that is going to be affecting the southwestern islands already with waves up to 12 meters high. taiwan is still feeling those waves up to about three meters, but the stormy weather will impact around the big city of taipaias been seeing this very stormy weather after it makes land fall it will be decreasing intensity and moving towards southern parts of china over the weekend. and as you can see it will be a gusty effect as well as drenching downpours to talk about. there is a rain band that is bringing hefty amounts of rainfall across japan and north korea as well as parts of china. 100 millimeters have been found in the past 24 hours, even more. 170 have been found here in north korea. into 72 hours, we are likely to see 200 millimeters of

i started my university training in taiwan in the area of political science. >> that is still possible, you know. >> after my family migrated to

looks like it will be moving into taiwan in the next 72 hours. soulik is the very large typhoon we've been tracking. it already has waves up to 12 meters high. taiwan is already feeling those waves up to about 3 meters, but the stormy weather will be impacting right around the big city of taipei. okinawa has already been seeing this very stormy weather. after it makes landfall, it looks like it will be decreasing its intensity and then moving towards southern parts of china over the weekend. already the gusts are 216 kilometers per hour. so as you can see, it's going to be a very gusty event as well as drenching downpours to talk about. talking about downpours, there is a ran band that's been bringing heavy amounts of rainfall across northern japan, north korea as well as parts of china, 100 millimeters have been found in the past 24 hours, even some more, 170 actually has been found here in north korea. into the next 72 hours we're likely to see about 200 millimeters of additional rainfall across the korean peninsula. 100 millimeters of addition

there is a powerful typhoon heading towards southern japan and taiwan. mia shoji joins us with the latest. >> we have been tracking quite a serious system. this is the typhoon. you can clearly see the defined eye heading towards taiwan and the southern islands off japan. all right affecting the okinawa prefecture and likely to bring waves of 5 meters and 7 meters high into tomorrow. and then it will start to intensify over the warm sea surface water. it looks like it will become violate typhoon status, which is the highest level of any of these typhoons before it approaches these countries. so taiwan is also in the line of fire, already packing wind gusts of 234 kilometers per hour. it will be about 270 kilometers by thursday or friday local time. it's already a very strong typhoon, already going to be intensifying. so we will keep a very close eye on this system. now, apart from the stormy conditions that will be brought from this storm, it is actually feeding the heat to japan, indirectly. yesterday the record high temperatures hit 39 degrees in cats p

taiwan's defense minster has resigned. they stepped down after a public outcry after the death of a young soldier. he died of heat stroke at the beginning of this month. officers had forced him to exercise vigorously and deny him water. they were punishing him for bringing a mobile phone with a camera on to a base. investigators found that ia surveillance video may have been tampered with. the leaders plan to stop in 2015 and want to switch to voluntary enlistments and hope to create units of italy troops. # >> residents of concern japan are picking up the pieces. torrential rains slashed the region leaving one dead and two missing. we have a report. >> this is how the downpours left the city in the prefecture. the force of floodwaters left houses leaning and covered in mud. this is completely filled with sludge. they are covered with mud and rocks. they are strewn with lumber and other debro. mudslides block train tracks and rescuers are searching for the missing and the efforts are being hampered by the risk of landslide