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- The first day of the meeting gathering finance ministers and central bank governors of the Group of 20 major economies ended on Thursday.
- Japan’s opposition parties are boycotting Diet deliberations after the government refused their demand that Finance Minister Taro Aso resign.
- The Meteorological Agency is keeping access restrictions in place for Mt. Io in southwest Japan, after the volcano erupted on Thursday for the first time in 250 years.
- Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and U.S. President Donald Trump have agreed to maintain the maximum pressure on North Korea until the country takes concrete steps for denuclearization.
- Finance ministers of the Group of Seven countries say maximum economic pressure will continue to be applied to North Korea.
- Russia says it has started massive military drills in the Kuril Islands. The country says the island chain includes 4 Russian-held islands claimed by Japan.
- Japan and the U.S. have agreed to maintain maximum pressure on North Korea to make the country abandon its nuclear and missile programs in a complete, verifiable and irreversible manner.
- A defense personnel exchange program between Japan and China has resumed after a 6-year hiatus.
- Cuba will convene its parliament on Wednesday. Cuban President Raul Castro is expected to step aside as president, marking an end of nearly 6 decades of leadership under him and his brother Fidel.
- Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe headed for the United States to hold talks with President Donald Trump.
- The recently disclosed activity logs of Japan’s Ground Self-Defense Force mission in Iraq years ago contain vivid accounts of a severe security situation in the country.
- An international chemical weapons watchdog says its fact-finding team is being barred from reaching the site of an alleged gas attack in Syria.
- Ministers from Japan and China have restarted a high-level economic dialogue in Tokyo for the first time in nearly 8 years.
- Economic ministers of Japan and China have agreed to work together to develop infrastructure in third countries.
- French President Emmanuel Macron has defended Saturday’s air strikes on Syria, saying they were necessary to stop its government from using chemical weapons.
- Russia and the United States remained at odds at a U.N. Security Council meeting over U.S.-led military strikes in Syria.
- The Japanese government says it supports the United States’ and its allies’ stance against proliferation, or use of chemical weapons.
- Japanese and Chinese foreign ministers will meet in Tokyo on Sunday to hold the first high-level economic talks between the 2 countries in about 8 years.
- U.S. President Donald Trump has announced he ordered military action against Syria in response to chemical weapons attacks by the regime of President Bashar al-Assad.
- Syria’s state-run television says coordinated air strikes by the U.S., Britain and France have hit a scientific research center in the suburbs of the capital Damascus, among other targets.
- A senior U.S. official says President Trump is expected to discuss with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on how to respond to North Korea when they meet next week.
- Agriculture Minister Ken Saito says documents related to a controversial project to open a veterinary school in Ehime Prefecture has been found in his ministry.
- The Japanese government has compiled urgent measures to deal with anti-pirating websites.
- The top national security advisers of Japan and the United States have agreed to continue close cooperation in dealing with North Korea, ahead of next week’s Japan-U.S. summit.
- U.S. President Donald Trump has warned Russia to be prepared for the possibility that missiles will be fired at Syria.
- Japan’s Foreign Minister Taro Kono has asked South Korean President Moon Jae-in to discuss abductions of Japanese nationals when he meets North Korean leader Kim Jong Un this month.
- Japan and China are set to hold their first high-level economic talks in about 8 years starting on Sunday.
- French President Emmanuel Macron says he will decide whether to launch military strikes on chemical weapons facilities in Syria in the coming days, after more consultations with the U.S. and Britain.
- North Korea will convene its parliament in Pyongyang on Wednesday, exactly 6 years after Kim Jong Un officially became the country’s top leader.
- Rescue crews in southwestern Japan are looking for at least 6 people who are missing after a landslide.