it's within the region locally referred to as little japan. it's called this because over half of the workforce has made the long trip to japan in order to find jobs there as migrant workers. this is one of the elderly women living in tokari. her family calls her ama. in nepali, ama means mother. >> when she was two, her mother went to japan. her mother left early in the morning without taking her. i was sitting by the fire in the kitchen, wondering what she'd say when she woke up. when she did, she came up and just pressed her cheek against mine. i couldn't help but cry. seeing me in tears, she left the room. she didn't even ask where her mother had gone. >> when ama was 18, she married and moved from a nearby village to tokari. as a migrant worker, her husband was rarely home, and she took care of their four children all by herself. in the village, elders are freed from the burden of work when their children marry and the daughter-in-law takes over the daily chores and farmwork. but with almost no young people left to work, in tokari, there'

i for both japan and south korea. but even other countries are including australia, which has good trade insecurity relations with both countries. so there's got to be a, quite a lot of a diplomatic effort required from not just between south korea and japan, but amongst it's a part is in the region to try and get some progress happening. okay, so did that to see that correct me if i'm wrong, but i believe that japan does not have a national human rights commission. what does that say to you about it's willingness and ability to confront human rights abuses of the past? well, the fact of the matter is, is that we are quite behind in quite a lot of issues, including for example, you know, a single parenthood on the north korean japan is country that has that. unfortunately, there's a lot of vested interest involved in this country, like many other countries. and for that reason, there are many things that are quite behind, especially towards the international standards protecting areas of like top management. and that

japan protested and south korea's unification ministry urged japan to do more to help victims and heal their wounds. let's bring in our guests. professor craig mark, a professor of international studies, and the publisher of an independent media outlet. welcome to the program. first, we talked to asia programs coordinator and humanitarian specialist at the global network of women peace builders. she joins us from new york. thank you very much for joining us. you were the lead researcher into a very comprehensive report looking into comfort-related sexual slavery. i want to talk first about comfort women. it is a euphemism and a very poor euphemism because the actual experience of what these women went through was horrific, wasn't it? >> yes, absolutely. the comfort women are victims of the most well-known occurrence of military sexual slavery. hundreds of thousands of korean, taiwanese, chinese, filipino, and dutch women, among others in the asia-pacific, were subjected to slavery at the hands of the japanese imperial army than dyer and exar occupied territories as part of a widespread

i for both japan and south korea. but even other countries are including australia, which has a good trade in security relations with both countries. so were there's got to be a, quite a lot of a diplomatic effort required some from not just between south korea and japan, but amongst it's a part is in the region to try and get some progress happening. okay, so did that to see that correct me if i'm wrong, but i believe that japan does not have a national human rights commission. what does that say to you about its willingness and ability to confront human rights abuses of the past? well, the fact of the matter is, is that we are quite behind in quite a lot of issues, including for example, you know, a single parenthood on the north korean japan is country that has that. unfortunately, there's a lot of vested interest involved in this country, like many other countries. and for that reason, there are many things that are quite behind, especially towards the international standards protecting areas of like top managemen

i mean, once you take on japan stance right now, all in japan stance is the fact that we can't go any further. the reason for this being is that there has been an agreement in 1965. the issue, the compensation claims was settled completely final and in addition as say one had been i had been explaining, we've also had various other opportunities. so she, in regards to comfort women back in 2000, i think it was 15. there has been further agreements. now, the fact of the matter is, of course, whatever agreement you may have, whatever you know, the, the, the coalition or the talks that you may have. the hurt and pain. and the deeds you know could never be, you know, compensated. that's a fact, but at the same time we need to go forward and especially considering the economic ties that we have in the 2 countries. it's very clear that we have to go forward. but the fact of the matter is, is what the chinese high court did in 2018 is basically saying that the war time labor, for example, that order the japanese from to compensate as koreans is basically breaking all the international laws.

and that includes a south korea and japan. so there is a prospect for some breakthrough in trade relations. but sir, really, it's gonna take some external effects, i think by allies of south korea and japan to try and get some mutual resolution. particularly the united states is of course the k l i for both japan and south korea. but even other countries are including australia, which has good trade insecurity relations with both countries. so there's got to be a, quite a lot of a diplomatic effort required and from not just between south korea and japan, but amongst it's a part is in the region to try and get some progress happening. okay, so did that to see that correct me if i'm wrong, but i believe that japan does not have a national human rights commission. what does that say to you about its willingness and ability to confront human rights abuses of the past? well, the fact of the matter is, is that we are quite behind in quite a lot of issues, including for example, you know, a single parenthood on the north korean japa

japan did not retaliate. what we heard from japanese officials, they felt they didn't retaliate so they feel they deserve a better deal. it seems like we could be seeing extended negotiations to sort that problem out. shery: bloomberg's isabel reynolds joining us from tokyo. coming up have another big guest joining us this week, japan ahead segment, suntory's president will tell us how one of the world's largest drink makers is dealing with the pandemic and changing consumer trends, in a sustainable way. but conversation is next. this is bloomberg. ♪ paul: you're watching "daybreak: asia." japanese markets will be opening in just 18 minutes from now. to look at how trade is shaping up, we have nikkei futures looking flat at the moment. we have the yen currently trading at 113.74, this is the greenback. futures are moving to the upside on the positive territory, by 0.3%. the japanese 10 year, not a huge amount of change, just up a few basis points. shery: some of the stories we are watching in japan today, t

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as the confrontation between china and japan's ally the u.s. intensifies, building a stable relationship between the asian neighbors is likely to be a major challenge. >>> two years have passed since the murder of a japanese medical doctor in afghanistan. nakamura tetsu had spent decades leading humanitarian efforts in the country. despite the return of the taliban to power, a young man from nakamura's hometown has been keeping his ideals alive. >> reporter: an organization in fukuoka is helping afghans restore farmland that has dried out. the group called itself peshawar-kai. it was founded in 1983 to support knack cure ra tetsu's activities in pakistan and later afghanistan. staffmembers continue to give advice to prevent food shortages and malnutrition. fujita chiyoko worked with nakamura for 30 years. five young staffmembers assist her. >> translator: dr. nakamura said we need to hire people in their 20s because the afghan drought won't end soon. our mission will take at least another 20 years. >> reporter: yamashita hayato joined the organ

japan and the.s.grd to al condu a joint alys on countengypersonic techlo. the japan side used the talks to touch on concerns over covid outbreaks on u.s. bases. it repeatea quest for the u.s. to step up anti-virus measures, including the reriions on visit by be rsonnel to surrounding communities. the u.s. said it will do everything it can. u.s.orces in jan say asf thsday neay 1,800eoe at bases across the country were in isolation after testing positive for the coronavirus. >>> the united nations is calling for peace and restraint kazakta id vle ashes beten polic and protesters that have reportedly left dozens dead. >> whaislear i tt all demonstratns need to be peaceful. people have a right tower, press their grievances. it needs to be don peacefuy decurity fce need to protect that right and show and act withrestin anti-govnmt protest erupte earlierhis mon in response to soaring fuel prices. security forcesn the lge city rponded wit ddly crackdn that left many injure they have detained more than 2,000 protesters. the authoriesave ao been rerictingntnet aess

to put it simply, i think japan and the united states went to war but japan declared war on the united states over two issues. one was a china and the other was the oil embargo are freezing japanese assets in the united states. i would like to add i think june 1914 was indeed the turning point because of japan wanted to move to china so that japanese military could stop british and american military support that was provided to china. all along it was not able to end the war with china who started in 1937. and then the allied american study, so japan wanted to stop the military supply. on the map i think that was one of the main reasons japan at one of the airbase in the northern french indochina besides natural resources. the american negotiations is key. i am running out of time. the american relations between the united states and japan was of course an embargo. in that the decision to freeze japanese assets in the united states and that led to the virtual oil embargo. the myth was that the oil embargo was not ordered by president roosevelt rather the freezing of japanese assets led

the purpose was the deterrence of japan. the date is extremely significant because this was before hitler overran western europe between april and june 1940. completely upsetting the world strategic balance. roosevelt then made the movement of the fleet permanent. he objected the whole basis was to be far more effective as a deterrent of japan if it was left to the west coast where he much superior facility would have a much higher degree of readiness. contrary to later assertions richardson at no point raise the issue of the vulnerability the extensive postwar hearings he again affirmed that's not one of the reasons he advance against the move. roosevelt fired richardson for his he had commander of the pacific fleet. the second half of 1941 the relations of then japan became very fraught. became deadlocked, the u.s. was decoding reading diplomatic traffic but there had been no break in that main and japanese fleet code. even without actual code breaking intelligence provided other techniques like marketing simply the locati

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we also means that japan has to join us. you join sanctions similar and japan does. it doesn't join. oh, sanction does, but william joins many types of them has bespoke we also have some security issues . we are concerned with the fact that a long time ago japan became so used in ccu ally, the goal of the united states. the reason a 19 with this not only 60 of treat court into which when you americans have a lot of freedom in their actions and maneuvers, asia journals, territories, almost. and right now when william local know he'll be in the or doctrine, says e u. s. are almost useless declaring us to be their enemies, and they are openly declaring us to be their adversary under a threat to their a security group. and this particular relations between roger can and the country who considers us and zenick bursary is hardly in the spiritual or development of a relation. see you sure you're my mom. go through those children, mary's and not her issue that has been reflected in our lives discussions. aside from our economic upon the cultural ties of william lou assigned

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and also the assets they had available to them, japan and japan primarily as a maritime power in the germans are of course completely focus on what is going on and precious it was really difficult to see how they're going to effectively coordinate the masses the only reasonable theater seems to be somewhere in the mid east some kind of a win cup in the air something like that but it is really difficult to see how the germans are going to be able to drive through these cases and they tried that and it didn't work out real well so i think the coordination issues i think are a real interesting thing and even if they had a better intent to do it. >> and the follow-up to that was on great britain and how long do they hold out, if the united states is not involved in. >> there's a very stable position actually they were already beginning to win the war and i don't see them as being a candidate for any sort of effective invasion by the germans. >> and is especially true on the eastern front and continuing so the real test for britain is in 1940, they ready fast it rated. >> the next questio

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make the spec possible in japan. whether we can do the transactions are based on the actual needs of the issuers and investors. it is not useless to discuss now. even if it looks like it is too late. paul: that is hiromi yamaji. you can watch more on tv . that is available to all terminal subscribers. you can do in to hear every week on bloomberg television. we are getting breaking news at the moment. industrial production numbers for the month of december, these are partial figures, the construction of 1% on the month, worse than anticipated. they were expecting a .06% contraction. not quite as sharp. it is growing at 2.7%. the expansion of 2.7% is a little bit weaker than expected by the market. shery: same thing for retail sales. a month on month is a contraction of 1% instead of it being anticipated -- of the anticipated 2.2%. the year on year is only 3.4% year on year. both numbers month on month and year on year also really are slow down from the previous month. not surprising, given that we are talking abo

what is so different about japan? >> right now, japan has been operating mostly under this when he 20 methodology -- the 2020 methodology. the reason why there is more scrutiny now and criticism is because it's 2022, it will be three years this april that there has been largely a foreign visitor band. i'm not talking about tourist. that's another thing altogether. this is a ban on people who want to come to japan, contribute to society, study, learn here, do research. about 370,000 people. you are hearing cries now with xenophobia, being to japan specific. i casted this in a political light and that the ratings now as the new prime minister, they are close to 60%. the japanese people are largely in favor of controlling the borders. even though they are allowed to cross borders. the foreign pressure is building now to change the policy update you are talking about the larger public. what will be the challenges for a country that deals with demographic issues as well? >> it is already happening, because pre-covid under

that is why people are good on japan. shery: the new prime minister did not actually talk about reform when addressing parliament? >> it is interesting. as an investor i wanted politicians to be steadfast, not to be stop, go. the one thing that the prime minister is predicable. he does give us a record supplementary budget. the only country with a physical accelerator that continues to be pushed. the bank of japan continues to be accommodating to the federal reserve. talking about heightening and stepping on the break, this is not going to be the case. that prime minister, ignore him, he does the right thing for business. he does the right thing for investors. >> isn't reform needed in japan? or is that a dirty word? >> reform is actually going on but it is not the sort of radical, something really big changed overnight. it is step-by-step, gradual improvements. the key point is we are now at a point from a corporate perspective where japanese corporations have actually reformed, cut costs, there breakeven point or incred

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and more details on japan's new capitalism plan. haidi: let's take a look at how these stocks are getting the trading week underway -- a tepid start to trading. losses ended the friday session of over 1%. starting off pretty flat. we are watching new zealand as well. some of those session lows -- certainly not much momentum when it comes to trading in kiwi stocks. so much on trade with beijing, we are seeing the key gdp number expected to show the impact of the real estate downturn we saw in the fourth quarter as well as electricity shortages and as we start to see the omicron cases spread to beijing a week before the winter olympics. we will be watching keenly for the economic fallout for that major economy. japanese futures -- we see chicago and nikkei futures trade just a bit higher. shery: let's delve deeper into that report of the omicron variant in beijing. this adds pressure on authorities to stem a potential outbreak three weeks before the olympics is set to begin. how disruptive will the latest case be for china's olympics

you know, for japan with north korea, the abduction issue, of course, is center for japan and they, they believe that it gets a little loss or washington sometimes. but i would also say that clearly the us wants japan and south korea to get on the same page because it doesn't want to the closest allies in the region to be loggerheads. and so far there has been, i would say tension between soul and tokyo. so part of what the u. s. wants to do is to repair that relationship. it's closest allies, get them working together. good. talk to you, david money. thanks cindy. david, fax that solsbury, connecticut. thank you. the pulse capital has imposed tough corona virus measures in the country battles its biggest outbreak. yet the government fails. the daily case numbers could double the 20000 by the end of the month as health work has continued to contract cobit 19. i'm as a liberal reports now from on to so she la committee owns a store in the heart of tommy gut mondo's tourist and business hub. she and her family have remained safe from cove it. but the virus has hit business hard when a corp

a significant number were from korea, a former colony of japan. and it's here in south korea that the walls longest running, protest continues to take place each wednesday around noon survivors, activists and ordinary citizens have gathered in front of the former japanese embassy in soul to demand an apology and compensation from the japanese government . this year some survivors sent video messages as cove at 19 concerns prevented them from attending in person. oh, japan insist that it never forcibly dragged us out of korea and never made us suffer. but i demand they stop lying and be honest. thou only 13 of the women still alive in south korea, 100 buildings, grandmothers passing away without receiving a proper apology and compensation. let's fight until the japanese government gives an official apology and legal reparations are made so that the lives and cries of the grandmothers are not in vain. 6 years ago, japan and south korea reached an agreement. japan apologized and provided nearly $9000000.00 to a fund to help survive little. but that d

david: speaking of, let's stay in japan. the prime minister reiterating the outline of his new capitalism framework in his policy speech in parliament. let's go to tokyo for our politics reporter to talk us through this emphasis on what is to come. given the negative effects he has sometimes had on the markets, what was reaction this time? >> there was not a negative reaction immediately in markets on monday. he did not give much detail about new capitalism. he said he would unveil a complete plan in the spring, so we still have time to wait for details. i think it is important to note that is not the end of the story. he did stick to the idea that relying on markets to decide things can be harmful. he wants to take the lead on resolving these in the international community. he will be taking these to the g7 and davos where he is giving a speech tonight remotely. he's going to be grilled constantly by opposition and ruling party lawmakers over the next few weeks. a lot of the key details tend to come out during the grilling

i knew i hated japan. i knew i hated the marine corps. there was no way i was ever going to be happy on okinawa. i didn't like japanese people. i didn't know there was a difference, you know? i didn't like anybody. - because of second world war? i mean, because of the whole history between americans and japanese? - i think, you know, all my uncles, and everything... fought over here. so i think i had a little bit of a bitter taste in my mouth. i came here and i met katsuyo, and she changed my life. (sophie fouron) you decided to follow your heart and really go against your family's will. (katsuyo de cesari) yeah. - you didn't feel torn? you know, your father didn't speak to you for the longest time. - ah yes, of course. there was a time when i was very upset. i felt like i was between my husband and my family. and i'm sure i put my mom in the same situation. she was between me and my dad. so, you know, at that time, everybody had a hard time. - the first time i was brought to the house, you know, when you're getting introduced to the pare

we get data on japan in the coming hours. in south korea, joint chief of staff is saying north korea has fired an unidentified projectile towards the east to see. we will be watching develop its on the defense side of things. industrial equipment maker -- robotics says it is planning an ipo alongside establishing subsidiaries in north america and europe. -- electronics co-ceo will deliver a keynote address at the ces conference. paul: up next, the rivalry among u.s. chip makers heat up as the annual conference. comedies unveil new products that push into each other's turf. this is bloomberg. ♪ ♪ >> one of the things that jumped out was this need for a better more unified cross device experience. i am pleased to announce we have acquired a pioneer and leader in delivering technology for advanced interaction between multiple devices based on different operating environments. >> our notebooks future the fastest processor ever with speeds up to five gigahertz, we are delivering an average of 1.3 x faster performance compared

we've had tomlins calling from sweden austria puts of japan. and so for just desperate for any news from home to debts have now been confirmed, including angela glover, a british woman who was rescuing her dogs. when she was hit by the powerful wave we ought as shattered arm is the only word i can think to describe it on any family that youth loses. such a treasured member of their family would know exactly what you know, what i'm saying here. a royal australian navy ship is on its way from sidney to brisbin to load humanitarian aid. humanitarian groups are now coordinating a joint relief effort. the volcanic ash means it's difficult, the same supplies by air. so water, sanitation, kits, tense and blankets are being lighted on ships to be sent from australia and new zealand. high tides triggered by the volcanic explosion. the tonga had been filled as far away as peru where a ship supplying the country's main oil. processing plant was rocked by waves generated by the russian the result, a 2 kilometer long oil spill. sarah clark out his era brisb

haidi: we're getting japan's cpi numbers. national cpi coming in at 8/10 of 1% which is slightly lower than expectations. it is accelerating from this extensive a percent in november. stripping out fresh food and energy which is been volatile, we are seeing a contraction of 7/10 of a percent slightly more of a deflationary effect than expected. this comes despite the bank of japan sounding more optimistic about the prospect of returning inflation. back above zero doesn't mean we are anywhere close to normalization of policy. shery: especially given that we had broader pressures including commodities prices surging and a weaker japanese yen. the greater tokyo region has entered a state of quasi-emergency for the next three weeks. public figures from tokyo's governor to the former prime minister have signaled their support for downgrading the legal status of the virus. let's bring in our managing editor. why is there such a big debate in japan about this? >> the recent surge related to omicron has reignited this debate. tokyo f

forces japan, ministry of defense in tokyo, japan self defense force headquarters, and camp smith hawaii, u.s. indopacific command headquarters. keen-edge is a regularly scheduled exercise that achieves mutual security objectives and achieves -- and strengthens u.s. japan military interoperability. and with that, we'll go to questions. i think, lita, you are on the phone if i have this right >> yes, thanks, john. on ukraine, a couple of questions, please. are you still going to be able to release the units that will be heading to -- for the nato response force? and to give us an idea of what percentage of those are in the nato response force and which, and how many or what percentage perhaps, are going to be sort of unilateral support to allies? and then secondly, can you -- both the secretary and the chairman yesterday spoke with their polish counterparts. is poland a priority in some of this military troop decision-making? will you be sending additional troops to poland? thank you. mr. kirby: yes. so, as you know, we talked about, the secretary did place a range of units in the united

so you have all the countries and japan, china, and korea that these 3 countries, japan, china, and korea also never had an agreement between themselves. so that's value addition of the agreement. yeah. and finally, i guess the countries that do have agreements amongst themselves, this is an opportunity to try and harmonize those rules, make them more coherent and get over the noodle, both effect nations big and small involved in this. i mean, you've got giants like china and india and the other winners and losers. though, among those countries, i think everyone will gain from the membership they know loses. as such, the gains will not be equal though. and a lot of concerned at china be the biggest when the, the expense of the others. that's not the case. i don't think that's true. china is already a major player. the incremental games will not be that great to china, japan, korea. in fact, the smaller countries, like cambodia, where i am or vietnam, allows can potentially be the largest winners if they use this opportunity to pursue the kinds of reforms that they need to do. they have to

a significant number were from korea, a former colony of japan. and it's here in south korea that the walls longest running protest continues to take place. each wednesday around noon survivors activists and ordinary citizens have gathered in front of the former japanese embassy in soul to demand an apology and compensation from the japanese government . this year, some survivors sent video messages as cove at 19 concerns prevented them from attending in person. oh, japan insist that it never forcibly dragged us out of korea and never made us suffer. but i demand they stop lying and be honest. thou only 13 of the women still alive in south korea under tremendous grandmothers passing away without receiving a proper apology and compensation. let's fight until the japanese government gives an official apology and legal reparations are made so that the lives and cries of the grandmothers are not in vain. 6 years ago, japan and south korea reached an agreement. japan apologized and provided nearly $9000000.00 to a fund to help survive little. but that

and landey that japan's exclusive economic zone in the sea of japan or japan and south korea tracked the missile as it reached an altitude of 2000 kilometers. it took about half an hour to travel, 800 kilometers. it's the 7th launched this month and appears to be the most powerful missile test it since 2017 will. soon after the launch the south korean lead and will j and held an emergency national security council meeting saying pyongyang is coming close to destroying a self imposed moratorium on missile test sold. allied washington is urging north korea to refrain from such provocations and engage in talks. japan condemned the launch and said it violated un security council resolutions that group without underneath. it's unacceptable that north korea significant advancement of its missile technology is posing a threat for the peace and safety of japan and the region. the consecutive missile tests are also great threats to the international community. still to come here on this channel, al jazeera gets rare access to separatist controlled, eastern ukraine, where the scars of a forgot

ah, and on the sea, volcanic eruption of tongue that triggers tsunami alerts across the pacific from japan to the u. s. west coast ah. hello, i'm adrian. and again, this is al jazeera, alive from doha, also coming up. well, number one, terraced on over chunk of edge faces, a deportation hearing and melbourne, which could buy him from the australian open and the country for 3 years. the 1st reported case of alma cronin beijing prompts mast testing at a neighbourhood locked down just 3 weeks out of the winter olympics and refugee shelters near the us border and mexico are running out of space as more people arrive, fleeing gang violence. ah, a powerful snobby as hip the pacific nation of tongue after an undersea volcano erupted the extent of the damage is still unclear as phone lines are down, waves more than a meter in height. hit fiji. vanna was who had american samo up. warnings and advisories are still in place for parts of japan and the western united states, which august king has been moved to his from his palace to safety. people on the small island nation had to scramble to reach hig

exclusive economic zone in the sea of japan, japan and south korea tracking the missile as it reached an altitude of 2000 kilometers. it took about half an hour to travel from 800 kilometers. is the 7th launch this month and appears to be the most powerful miss el tested since 2017 most soon after the launch south korea is lead and when j and held an emergency national security council meeting, he says, showing young is coming close to destroying a self imposed moratorium on this all tests souls, ally washington is urging north korea to refrain from such provocations and engage in talks. japan has condemned the launch, then it says it violates the un security council resolutions that's on the knees. it's unacceptable that north korea is significant advancement of its missile technology is posing a threat for the peace and safety of japan and the region. the consecutive missile tests are also great threats to the international community. voting is on the way in portugal snap general election with no party expected to win an outright majority. the ballot was cold by the socialist govern

let's turn our attention to japan. they are eyeing a three-week emergency with uncertainty over the economy with the bank of japan. let's bring in our chief rates correspondent from asia. garfield, not that the meeting is live but the fact we are excited over it tells you something is happening. we are talking about the boj of course. garfield: you said boj in my instinct is to stifle a yawn. they are usually as exciting as watching paint dry. there has been plenty of excitement coming into this. in the current environment, any central bank meeting is live as far as bond markets are concerned. there has been speculation the boj may actually talk about talking about thinking about when they might raise rates. it is torturous, but if they are doing that, that emphasizes that everybody else is looking, is going to be pushed toward raising rates. one of the big things to watch is if there is the sort of less dovish surprise from the boj, that might be the sort of thing that helps to push the yields into positive territorie

in order to contain the infection of the virus in japan, japan is going to put tokyo under quarantine or a state of emergency for three weeks. what allows that is that the local government will be allowed to request, to limit, making social gatherings smaller. restaurants and bars will have shortened hours. large events will be asked to require testing before gathering people. and then the government is also thinking about getting a requirement for three weeks. haidi: in terms of the infection numbers, what is that alarming data point? the record high cases. at the same time, we've seen death rates remaining pretty low. >> that's right. japan is seeing a record number of cases with over 30,000. tokyo is seeing 5000 which is also a record number, up from 30 about a month ago. as you say, severe cases remain fairly low. yeah. we are seeing that the cases are still very mild. shery: we are tracking the fallout of the global supply chain crisis as a result of these pandemic effects. these are the top stories today. nickel is drawing attention from metal exchange. buyers are forced to pay

faces in oka now and other bases in japan. there is one in hiroshima -- in okinawa and other bases in japan. there is one in hiroshima. they have restricted the movement of u.s. servicewomen into the japanese community for the time being. that is usually -- that is pretty unusual because the u.s. has sovereign control over its people on u.s. bases in japan. >> that was the bloomberg editing editor, kazunori. next, we will get a litter numbers on china. the government wants stay at home property >> although these precious materials are on the lucky side that this was spot on in a way, forecasting what kind of material we would need and what quantity we would need. >> that was thurston miller speaking to us little bit earlier. we are tracking the fallout of the global supply chain crunch. these other top stories today. hong kong's omicron outbreak is pushing it, -- cargo chain to collapse. they are respected to raise prices. this could drop below 1/5 of pre-pandemic levels. china is tightening restrictions on vehicles entering s

out korea in japan. i want to ask you about the timing of this test. josh, because diplomats are working around the clock right now to prevent a russian invasion to ukraine. we know that relations with china are at their worst in years of is north korea perhaps taking advantage of the west being distracted at the moment? that is certainly one theory by many watchers right now. north korea appears to be testing the limits of what can get away with at this point, it's heavily sanctioned already and it as it looks around the world, as you said, most of the major players are distracted elsewhere. the basic lucas are coming up. and of course, washington is looking elsewhere, so they may see this as a time to make more progress on these weapons, perhaps with less repercussions than they may have had in the past. and josh, just one last question, the u. s. is calling for direct talks. what could that look like? mean we're unlikely to see a face to face summit between the leaders of the us and north korea. there does seem to be a lot of pessimism about the cha