November 28, Wednesday, 2018 (2:00 p.m.) Read by Mr. Michael Reese and Ms. Mariko Kojima

  1. The Lower House of the Diet has passed a bill to accept more foreign workers to help address Japan’s serious labor shortages.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.