主な出来事　　11月15日-11月21日

Politics

Prime Minister Abe stated to forego the extraordinary Diet session in autumn and expressed to convene the regular Diet session on January 4.

The government has filed a lawsuit seeking the withdrawal of the landfill approved cancellation of the Henoko coastal areas by the governor Onaga.

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe met with President Obama and confirmed the policy to strengthen the cooperation in the South China Sea issue that China has been developing to advance the artificial island construction.

Business

Cabinet Office announced that the preliminary gross domestic product during July-September period became a year-on-year 0.2 percent down, which was 0.8% decline in annualized. It is in two consecutive quarters of negative, and it caused the downturn in corporate capital investment.

The secretary general in the Liberal Democratic Party, Tanigaki and the secretary general of the New Komeito, Inoue, discussed for the first time the reduced tax rate to be introduced during the consumption tax increase up to 10%.

Liberal Democratic Party has decided TPP measures. They will boost the farmers and small and medium-sized enterprises who are working on strengthening competitiveness, and aim to be the new export powerhouse.

World

French police conducted the gunfight against terrorism suspects in Paris suburb Saint-Denis. Two suspect were killed and eight people were detained. One person who died was identified as suspects of terrorist mastermind.

In APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting, the summit declaration was adopted that it welcomed the action to cut off terrorist funding source,.

Security Council of the United Nations has adopted a resolution showing its determination to fight the Islamic countries.

An armed group attacked and barricaded at a luxury hotel in Mali, West Africa and more than 100 guests had become a temporary hostage. The end of the firefight, 19 hostages were killed and two suspects were also killed.

Japan

It is contested whether the demotion because of pregnancy for a woman who worked at a hospital in Hroshima city is contrary to the Equal Employment Opportunity Law, and the Hiroshima High Court ordered about 1.75 million yen compensation to the hospital side.

Regarding Toshiba accounting fraud issue, it was revealed that the Securities and Exchange Surveillance Commission had recommended to the Financial Services Agency to order a surcharge payment to Toshiba. Total penalty amount  would be expected 7 billion yen, which is the maximum in the past.

IUCN has announced the latest version of the Red List. They newly added a large fish, sunfish as  the endangered species to the list.

It was found in the investigation both by the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare and the  Ministry of Education that the employment rate of prospective college students who will graduate next spring was 66.5 percent, down by 1.9 percent from the same period of last year.

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