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米国産コメ　輸入拡大案　政府検討　関税交渉カードに　農家反発恐れ　
The government has decided to deliberate on presenting to the US government the plan of importing the rice produced in the US as the means to increase the import from the country in terms of the tariff negotiations with the US. But there is a concern that farmers in Japan would be against the plan, so the government should make a delicate adjustment in the process.

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米相互関税　全面発動　第二弾、日本は２４％に　対中計１０４％　　中国対抗８４％へ

The US government led by Donald Trump put into practice its second version of the mutual tariffs at 00:01 on April 9th, or 13:01 on Japan standard time. The rate of its duties toward Japan is 24% in total. That for China is 84%, making the total duties for the country 104% with the already practiced 20% included. Given such conditions, China announced on April 9th that it will raise its revenge duties to the US goods from 34% to 84%. The worries that global economy would be seriously affected by these trade frictions have been intensified much more.

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米国　相互関税の第一弾を発動　一律１０％で　全ての国・地域へ適用　　景気悪化の恐れあり

The US government led by Donald Trump began putting it in practice to impose the across-the -board 10 % tariff on almost all the imports to the USA as the first part of the policy of the mutual customs duty, starting at 00:01 on April 5th, at 01:01 in the afternoon in Japan's standard time. This is applied to almost all the countries and the areas except Mexico and Canada to which the 25% tariffs were already applied. China has already announced its counter measures against the US movement, so there have been a lot of worries that the economy would be gradually getting worse globally.

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中国無人機の飛行が７倍に　２１年度比　南西諸島周辺で　３０機　　中国軍　台湾年頭か　活動範囲を拡大している

It is learned that the number of Chinese pilotless airplanes which flied around the Nansei Islands last fiscal year in fiscal 2024 and to which the Japan's ministry of defense scrambled the Air Self-defense Force's fighter planes has come to be 30, 7 times that in fiscal 2021. The air space where those Chinese planes flied has been rapidly expanded to the place which is north-east of the Okinawa Main Island. It is believed that the Chinese Military Force is likely to have improved its pilotless airplanes' abilities with its invasion of Taiwan in mind. Given such conditions, the Self-Defense Forces are paying keen attention to their movement now.

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ミャンマー地震　死者１０００人超　インフラ被害　救援難航　日本人２人負傷　タイ１０人死亡
Regarding the earthquake with a magnitude of 7.7 which took place in the central part of Myanmar on February 28, the country's military force announced on February 29 that the death number had reached 1,002 in the country. According to the information from the Japanese Embassy in Myanmar, two Japanese people were injured. In the neighboring country Thailand, 10 people have been identified to be dead so far in Bangkok where there was a collapse of a building under construction. As lots of the infrastructures are damaged, there seems to be difficulty doing rescue activities.