In this week of the Nobel announcements, we look at last year's winner of the Peace Prize. Malala Yousafzai is campaigning as hard as ever for girls' education. NHK's senior commentator Aiko Doden met her for an exclusive interview. She learns that what keeps Malala going is her family.

Troops in the Philippines have been training with partners from the United States. Members of Japan's Self-Defense Forces observed. The exercises played out through Friday on a Philippine coastline that faces disputed islands in the South China Sea.

Those islands are the focal point of tension over an increasingly assertive Chinese presence. NHK World's Charmaine Deogracias reports on the joint military drills and the message they likely send to Beijing.