October 3, Wednesday, 2018 (2:00 p.m.) Read by Mr. Michael Reese and Ms. Eriko Kojima

  1. U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will visit North Korea on Sunday to meet the country’s leader Kim Jong Un.
  2. A suspicious letter has been sent to U.S. President Donald Trump. The U.S. media say it may contain ricin, a deadly poison.
  3. 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.

October 2, Tuesday, 2018 (2:00 p.m.) Read by Ms. Fumiko Konoe and Ms. Hiroko Kitadai

  1. The lineup of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s new cabinet has been officially announced.
  2. A cancer patient has congratulated Japanese molecular immunologist Tasuku Honjo for winning this year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
  3. Survivors of last week’s powerful earthquake and tsunami that hit the Indonesian island of Sulawesi are facing severe shortages of relief supplies.

October 1, Monday, 2018 (2:00 p.m.) Read by Ms. Emma Howard and Ms. Mariko Kojima

  1. People throughout Japan are assessing the damage from Typhoon Trami.
  2. 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.
  3. The Bank of Japan’s quarterly Tankan survey in September shows that business sentiment among large manufacturers worsened for three quarters in a row.