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- U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will visit North Korea on Sunday to meet the country’s leader Kim Jong Un.
- A suspicious letter has been sent to U.S. President Donald Trump. The U.S. media say it may contain ricin, a deadly poison.
- The Japanese co-winner of this year’s Nobel Prize for medicine reportedly plans to donate the prize money to his university to support young researchers.
- The lineup of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s new cabinet has been officially announced.
- A cancer patient has congratulated Japanese molecular immunologist Tasuku Honjo for winning this year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
- Survivors of last week’s powerful earthquake and tsunami that hit the Indonesian island of Sulawesi are facing severe shortages of relief supplies.
- People throughout Japan are assessing the damage from Typhoon Trami.
- Denny Tamaki, who was chosen as the next governor of Okinawa in Sunday’s election, has reiterated his opposition to the Japanese government’s plan to move a U.S. military base within the prefecture.
- The Bank of Japan’s quarterly Tankan survey in September shows that business sentiment among large manufacturers worsened for three quarters in a row.