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- People at a public hearing in Fukushima have criticized a plan to release water containing radioactive tritium into the ocean from the prefecture’s crippled nuclear plant.
- Workers have begun removing nuclear fuel at the Monju fast-breeder reactor in central Japan.
- A senior Japanese Foreign Ministry official has flown to Beijing with the apparent purpose of coordinating Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s visit to China.
- A U.S. newspaper is reporting that senior U.S. officials expressed irritation that Japan concealed a meeting with North Korea last month.
- U.S. Defense Secretary James Mattis has suggested that the United States may resume military exercises with South Korea.
- Japan’s vice-minister for foreign affairs will travel to China on Wednesday to lay the groundwork for a possible visit to the country by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe later this year.
- A Japanese man who has been detained in North Korea is on his way back to Japan via China.
- Japan’s annual defense report stresses the need to introduce a new ballistic missile defense system, citing nuclear and missile threats from North Korea.
- The Japanese manga artist famous for her character Chibi Maruko-chan has died.