An aide to Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and a member of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team have agreed on the need for an early Japan-U.S. summit.
Officials with Japan’s central bank say inflation rates in fiscal 2017 will get closer to their 2-percent target, but private analysts are pessimistic.
The head of the United Nations’ nuclear regulator appears set to be re-elected unopposed.