日: 2018年11月21日

November 20, Tuesday, 2018 (2:00 p.m.) Read by Ms. Hiroko Kitadai and Ms. Fumiko Konoe

  1. 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.
  2. NHK has learned that Nissan Motor provided its chairman with houses in four countries without any legitimate business reason.
  3. 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.

November 19, Monday, 2018 (2:00 p.m.) Read by Mr. Yoshi Ogasawara and Ms. Emma Howard

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. U.S. President Donald Trump says he is thinking about reshuffling 3 to 5 cabinet posts following his dismissal of Attorney General Jeff Sessions.