- Officials from Japan and China are arranging for Chinese Vice President Wang Qishan to visit Japan in October to attend the enthronement ceremony of Emperor Naruhito.
- Bereaved relatives of the victims of Japan’s worst air disaster are making their annual visit to the crash site on a mountain north of Tokyo on the 34th anniversary of the accident.
- Japan’s Defense Ministry has dismissed what it says is an attempt by North Korea to drive a wedge between Tokyo and Washington.