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Last week in Japanese News 04/30/2023-05/06/2023 [1]

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Date: 2023-05-08  

Hello, this is RWPOINTWOMAN and this is Last Week in Japanese News. Here is where I translate Japanese articles about Japan from the Easy section of the Easy Japanese news reader app into English.

On with the show!

May 1, 2023:

48 Japanese nationals, family members, flee Sudan for Japan. (NHK)

In Sudan, which is in Africa, the army and the RSF are fighting. According to the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 57 Japanese citizens and their family members fled Sudan for Japan, a total of 65 people. And 48 of them boarded a plane in Djibouti and arrived in Japan on April 29. A man from a nonprofit said, "I truly wanted to cry when I could see Mt. Fuji from the plane." This nonprofit went to locations within Sudan without doctors and provided medical treatment and educated children." This man stated, "Sudan is undergoing turmoil right now. We want countries from around the world to cooperate to stop the war. When Sudan is made safe, were want to return to it and remain with the Sudanese people."

May 2, 2023:

Depreciation of yen continues as it falls to ¥150:€1 for 1st time in 14.5 years. (Asahi)

The yen exchange rate fell to ¥1=¥150 over the weekend at the foreign exchange market in New York City. The last time this happened was 14.5 years ago in October of 2008. The impetus for this is Bank of Japan President Kazuo Ueda holding the 1st monetary policy meeting on April 28. Having experienced the decision to maintain large-scale monetary easing, the view that the differential between Japanese and European interest rates is increasing is becoming more widespread and the trend of selling yen and buying Euros is becoming stronger. Also, the yen continues to become cheaper relative to the US dollar with its market price falling to nearly $1=¥136. It has been about a month and a half since $1=¥136 was reached.

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