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- Tokyo’s benchmark Nikkei Average dropped more than 1,000 points in afternoon trading on Thursday.
- The replacement for the famous Tsukiji fish market in Tokyo has held its first auctions.
- A magnitude 6.0 earthquake has struck off the Indonesian island of Java, reportedly killing 3 people.
- U.S. President Donald Trump says his second summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will take place after the midterm elections.
- The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, has announced she will step down at the end of this year.
- The Japanese Business Federation plans to do away with guidelines that restrict how companies recruit new graduates.
- Leaders of Japan and 5 Southeast Asian nations along the Mekong River have agreed to cooperate to promote a “free and open Indo-Pacific” region.
- Russia’s defense chief says the massive military exercises in September did not include islands claimed by Japan.
- A co-winner of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize has called on the international community to work together to fight genocide and sexual violence.
- The South Korean presidential office says U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un have agreed to arrange a second summit as soon as possible.
- The Unite Nations is offering assistance to Haiti, which was hit by an earthquake over the weekend.
- Monday marks 20 years since the leaders of Japan and the South Korea issued a joint declaration calling for future-oriented relations based on mutual understanding and trust.
- Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe met U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in Tokyo on Saturday.
- A North Korean diplomat has arrived in Moscow for talks with officials from the country’s long-time allies, Russia and China.
- Interpol has asked China for information about its missing president.
- Japan is facing its second major storm in a week. Typhoon Kong-rey, now classified as a severe tropical storm, is battering the country’s southwestern regions.
- This year’s Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to two people for their efforts to end the use of rape as a weapon of conflict.
- Tokyo’s Tsukiji Wholesale Market, often dubbed the “ Kitchen of Japan,” permanently shuts at noon on Sunday, bringing the curtain down on 85 years of trade.
- A magnitude 5.2 earthquake has hit the northern prefecture of Hokkaido.
- Typhoon Kong-rey is battering Japan’s southern prefecture of Okinawa.
- A U.S. research group says the dismantling work in a North Korean missile launch site has been halted since early August.
- U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has expressed hope that his planned visit to Pyongyang will lead to progress in paving the way for North Korea’s denuclearization process.
- The death toll has now topped 1,400 from the powerful earthquake and tsunami that hit the Indonesian island of Sulawesi on Friday.
- Peru’s Supreme Court has annulled a medical pardon granted to former president Albert Fujimori and ordered he be returned to prison.
- 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.