December 15, Saturday, 2018 (2:00 p.m.) Read by Ms. Fumiko Konoe and Ms. Risa Shimizu

  1. Nissan Motor plans to put off naming a successor to former chairman Carlos Ghosn at its board meeting next Monday.
  2. Okinawa Prefecture is set to consider legal measures to counter a controversial plan to relocate a U.S. military base within the prefecture.
  3. The former personal lawyer of Donald Trump says the president knew he was breaking the law by paying hush money to 2 women who said they had affairs with him.

December 14, Friday, 2018 (2:00 p.m.) Read by Ms. Emma Howard and Ms. Fumiko Konoe

  1. Japan’s central government is moving forward with a controversial plan to relocate an American military base within the southern prefecture of Okinawa.
  2. French police have shot dead the suspect in the Strasbourg gun attack that left 3 people dead and 13 others wounded.
  3. Russia says the former Soviet Union’s memo in 1960, which called for the withdrawal of U.S. forces in Japan, needs to be taken into account during the expected peace treaty talks with Japan.

December 13, Thursday, 2018 (2:00 p.m.) Read by Ms. Hiroko Kitadai and Ms. Yuka Matsumoto

  1. Researchers say up to 60 percent of sandy beaches in Japan could disappear by the end of this century because of rising sea levels brought by global warming.
  2. The Economic Partnership Agreement between the European Union and Japan appears set to come into effect on February 1st.
  3. British Prime Minister Theresa May has survived a non-confidence vote brought against her by members of her Conservative Party.