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- The Lower House of the Diet has passed a bill to accept more foreign workers to help address Japan’s serious labor shortages.
- The Group of 20 finance ministers will gather in Argentina on Thursday. The key focus of the meeting is whether they can have constructive discussions on the trade dispute between the United States and China.
- Sources say an auditing firm raised questions about a Nissan Motor subsidiary in the Netherlands that apparently played a role in the financial misconduct allegations involving former chairman Carlos Ghosn.
- Ukraine’s parliament has approved a plan to introduce martial law for a period of 30 days starting Wednesday.
- NHK has learned that former Nissan Motor executive Greg Kelly has denied his own involvement in alleged financial misconduct, and any by ousted chairman Carlos Ghosn.
- U.S. border security authorities have arrested 69 migrants who allegedly crossed the border illegally.
- Nissan Motor President and CEO Hiroto Saikawa has explained to employees about former chairman Carlos Ghosn’s alleged misconduct.
- A massive wildfire in California has been fully contained after burning more than 2 weeks.
- Tensions flared on the U.S. border with Mexico as Central American migrants poured into a major Mexican border city.
- Taiwan’s ruling Democratic Progressive Party suffered a crushing defeat in Saturday’s local elections, prompting President Tsai Ing-wen to resign as the party’s chief.
- NHK has learned that a tax haven may have been involved in the suspected financial misconduct by former Nissan Motor Chairman Carlos Ghosn.
- Japan’s foreign minister wants to hold a conference in one of the Palestinian territories to discuss the provision of aid to the Palestinian people.
- Japan’s western city of Osaka has been chosen to host the 2025 World Expo.
- Informed sources say ousted Nissan chairman Carlos Ghosn allegedly had the company pay his membership fees for a yacht club in Brazil.
- A Kazakh national of Uighur descent has spoken about the ordeal he experienced at a detention camp in China.
- Nissan Motor’s board of directors have voted unanimously to oust Carlos Ghosn as chairman.
- The chief of the International Atomic Energy Agency says North Korea may have continued work at its nuclear facilities in recent months.
- A senior U.N. official in charge of peacekeeping operations has told NHK he will ask for Japan’s support to improve the performance of peacekeepers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
- Nissan Motor is holding an extraordinary board meeting on Thursday to decide whether Chairman Carlos Ghosn will be removed from his executive positions.
- NHK has learned that a close aide to Nissan Chairman Ghosn told others that Ghosn might be ousted from Renault if his real income had been known.
- Top officials from Osaka Prefecture continue their campaign in Paris to rally support for a bid to host the 2025 World Expo, one day ahead of voting.
- South Korea says it will close a fund designed to support those referred to as wartime comfort women, set up under an agreement with Japan.
- The board members of French automaker Renault has appointed a temporary replacement for Carlos Ghosn. He will remain Chairman and CEO.
- The U.S. secretary of state says the inter-Korean relations should not be moved forward on its own unless progress is also made in denuclearizing the Korean Peninsula.
- Carlos Ghosn has long demonstrated strong leadership as head of Nissan Motor. It is almost certain that his arrest will force the automaker to review its business strategy.
- NHK has learned that Nissan Motor provided its chairman with houses in four countries without any legitimate business reason.
- Japan’s automaker Mitsubishi Motors says it will also propose to its board of directors that Ghosn be immediately dismissed from his post as chairman.
- Leaders at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit have failed to agree on a final communique due to a divide between the United States and China over trade.
- A Russian presidential spokesperson has stressed that a recent agreement to accelerate peace treaty talks between his nation and Japan was never meant to be an automatic handover of Russian territories to Japan.
- U.S. President Donald Trump says he is thinking about reshuffling 3 to 5 cabinet posts following his dismissal of Attorney General Jeff Sessions.