April 6, Friday, 2018 (2:00 p.m.) Read by Ms. Sara Mcdonald and Ms. Hiroko Kitadai

  1. Japan’s Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera says the Air Self-Defense Force has found some of the records of its operations in Iraq.
  2. China’s Commerce Ministry says it has initiated a World Trade Organization dispute resolution procedure over U.S. tariffs on imports of steel and aluminum.
  3. The foreign ministers of China and Russia have agreed that the U.S. needs to decrease its military pressure on North Korea in order to denuclearize the Korean Peninsula.