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- Japan’s main ruling Liberal Democratic Party is choosing its leader for the next 3 years, a vote that also effectively decides who will be the prime minister.
- The United States has welcomed the latest inter-Korean summit and proposed a prompt resumption of talks with Pyongyang.
- Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Kono is planning to meet his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, next week.
- South Korean President Moon Jae-in and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un have signed a joint declaration at the end of their talks in Pyongyang on Wednesday.
- China says it will impose tariffs on U.S. imports worth about 60 billion dollars in retaliation for new U.S. tariffs.
- The operator of Hokkaido’s main power plant says unit one of its Tomatoh-Atsuma thermal plant is back online.
- The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump has unveiled the third- and largest yet- round of additional tariffs on Chinese goods that will take effect on September 24th.
- South Korean President Moon Jae-in is now in Pyongyang hoping to improve relations and jumpstart stalled denuclearization talks between the U.S. and the North.
- Railway services to Kansai International Airport have resumed, two weeks after the bridge linking it with the mainland was damaged by an oil tanker.
- Authorities in the Philippines say a powerful typhoon has left 65 people dead on Luzon Island.
- Thousands of boats have left ports after Chinese authorities lifted a ban on seasonal fishing in parts of the East China Sea.
- The South Korean government is making final preparations for the 3-day inter-Korean summit, which will start in North Korea’s capital Pyongyang on Tuesday.
- People in Hong Kong are bracing for the powerful typhoon Mangkhut, which earlier tore across the northern Philippines.
- Nankai Electric Railway says train services to Osaka’s Kansai International Airport will be running again on Tuesday.
- Japanese pop star Namie Amuro has performed live for the last time before drawing the curtain on her 25-year singing career.
- Powerful Typhoon Mangkhut has made landfall in the northern Philippines early Saturday local time.
- U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has criticized Russia for attempting to undermine U.S. Security Council sanctions resolutions against North Korea.
- U.S. media are reporting that President Donald Trump has instructed aides to go ahead with imposing additional tariffs on about 200 billion dollars’ worth of Chinese imports.
- The operator of typhoon-hit Kansai International Airport in western Japan has reopened part of its main passenger facility.
- The United States has imposed sanctions against 2 IT companies in China and Russia in a bid to stop the flow of illicit revenue to North Korea.
- Turkey’s central bank has steeply raised its key interest rate in an attempt to stem the currency crisis.
- The Russian government has expressed readiness to open talks with Japan on President Vladimir Putin’s proposal to sign a peace treaty by the end of the year without any preconditions.
- Nearly 1,600 people remain displaced in Japan’s northern prefecture of Hokkaido a week after the region was hit by a magnitude 6.7 earthquake.
- Japanese tennis sensation Naomi Osaka has spoken to reporters after returning to Japan after her U.S. Open championship.
- Electricity supply in quake-hit Hokkaido, northern Japan, will likely improve soon as a hydroelectric power plant is scheduled to go online later this week.
- Japan’s prime minister and China’s president say they’ll work to improve relations. As part of that, Shinzo Abe told reporters he’ll push ahead with plans to visit China next month.
- On Tuesday, the United States marked 17 years since the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Bereaved families and many others remembered the victims in New York City.
- In Hokkaido, the death toll from last week’s earthquake has risen to 41 after police found the body of a 56-year-old man who’s been trapped under the books at his home.
- Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Russian President Vladimir Putin has concluded their meeting in Russia’s Far East.
- U.S. President Donald Trump has received a letter from North Korean leader Kim Jong Un requesting a second meeting following their historic Singapore summit in June.