- U.S. Acting Secretary of State John Sullivan has called on the international community to keep pressure on North Korea until the country completes denuclearization.
- Japan’s government has approved the resignation of a top Finance Ministry bureaucrat who is at the center of a sexual harassment scandal.
- Finance Minister Taro Aso says the ministry will put off paying a retirement allowance to its top bureaucrat while a probe continues into allegations that he sexually harassed female reporters.
April 24, Tuesday, 2018 (2:00 p.m.) Read by Ms. Fumiko Konoe and Ms. Hiroko Kitadai