米竜巻「邦人被害の情報なし」　松野官房長官

　松野博一官房長官は１３日午前の記者会見で、多数の死者を出した米南部・中西部の竜巻について「現在までに在留邦人の生命・身体に被害が及んだとの情報には接していない」と述べた。林芳正外相がブリンケン米国務長官と英国で会談した際、お見舞いを伝えたことを明らかにした上で、「引き続き米国に寄り添っていく」と語った。（2021/12/13-12:00）

Japanese Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi offered words of sympathy to U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken over a swarm of tornadoes that killed numerous people in the United States, Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno said Monday.
   Hayashi and Blinken met in Liverpool, England, on Saturday on the sidelines of a meeting of the Group of Seven foreign ministers. The devastating tornadoes hit the U.S. Midwest and South from late Friday into early Saturday.
   "We'll continue to stand by the United States," Matsuno, Japan's top government spokesman, told a press conference.
   Matsuno also said the government has so far received no report of damage to the lives of Japanese nationals in the United States caused by the tornadoes.