1. Tropical storm Shanshan is expected to come close to Tokyo’s remote Ogasawara Island chain in the western Pacific on Sunday. Shanshan is likely to approach western and eastern Japan next week, while gaining strength. Shanshan is expected to move slowly northwest before getting close to the Ogasawara Islands. Officials are calling on people to stay updated on the latest weather information.
2. Minnesota Governor Tim Walz accepted the US Democratic Party’s nomination for vice president in a speech at the party’s national convention on Wednesday. Walz – whom Vice President Kamala Harris picked as her running mate in her bid to become president. – spoke on the third ay of the convention underway in Chicago. Walz has been presenting himself as a candidate that voters can relate to with his middle-class upbringing and small-town roots. The Democratic Party hopes Walz will help Harris win wider support from the white working class. 3. Tokyo Electric Power Company, or TEPCO, has postponed a test to retrieve nuclear fuel debris from one of its crippled reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi plant. The utility had planned to begin the experimental debris removal on Thursday morning. It was to be the first such attempt in 13 and a half years after an earthquake and tsunami triggered meltdowns in the plant’s reactors in 2011.
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