日: 2017年4月18日

1. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is meeting with U.S. Vice President Mike Pence who is now in Japan.
2. A North Korean envoy in charge of normalizing with Japan has dismissed the issue of Japanese abducted by North Korea.
3. About 70 members of a Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force engineering unit have left South Sudan after participating in a U.N. peacekeeping mission.

1. Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe says his government will cooperate with China and Russia as well as the United States and South Korea to prevent North Korea from further provocation.
2. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has claimed victory in Sunday’s landmark referendum.
3. China’s gross domestic product shows the country’s economy is continuing to improve.