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- A comprehensive free trade deal between Japan and the European Union has come into force.
- U.S. President Donald Trump says he will announce details of his upcoming summit with North Korean leader next week.
- Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare says the ratio of job offers to applicants averaged 1.61 last year, the second highest after 1.76 marked in 1973.
- Ministers from China and the United States have begun talks in Washington in a bid to end the trade spat between the countries.
- A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers has submitted a bill aimed at blocking the withdrawal of U.S. troops from South Korea.
- Police in Japan are investigating the sale of radioactive materials suspected to be depleted uranium.
- Leaders of the European Union and British Prime Minister Theresa May remain divided on whether they renegotiate part of the Brexit agreement.
- Earnings at US IT giant Apple fell in the October-to-December quarter, weighed down by a drop in sales of the iPhone in China.
- The U.S. government has formally asked Canada to extradite the chief financial officer of Chinese telecom giant Huawei Technologies.
- The U.S. Justice Department has filed criminal charges against Chinese tech giant Huawei, two of its subsidiaries and a top executive.
- Mounting concerns against the global economic outlook dragged down New York stocks on Monday.
- Japan’s Labor Ministry said on Monday that flaws have been found in statistics used to determine the minimum wage.
- Japanese tennis star Naomi Osaka has become the world’s Number-One singles player.
- A Russian Presidential Office spokesperson says signing a peace treaty with Japan is a major goal in ongoing talks.
- France’s economy minister has warned against handing a massive severance payout to Carlos Ghosn for his former role as chairman and CEO at Renault.
- Japanese tennis player Naomi Osaka has won the women’s singles title at the Australian Open.
- Tense discussions at the U.N. Security Council on the political crisis in Venezuela have resulted in no action.
- Brazilian authorities say 34 people have been confirmed dead and more than 300 others remain missing after Friday’s collapse of a mining dam in a southeastern region.
- U.S. President Donald Trump has signed a three-week spending bill to reopen the government until February 15th, ending the longest shutdown in the U.S. history.
- The United Nations will begin an independent investigation into the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who was critical of the Saudi government.
- Government figures show the number of foreign workers in Japan hit a record high last year.
- French automaker Renault has accepted Carlos Ghosn’s resignation as chairman and CEO as he remains in detention in Tokyo.
- Members of the prefectural assembly in Japan’s southwestern prefecture of Okinawa have agreed to add another choice for a planned referendum on relocation of a U.S. base.
- The U.S. Senate has voted down two competing budget bills that would have reopened the government.
- South Korea did not take a stance on Japan’s call for talks on the wartime labor issue at a meeting of the two countries’ foreign ministers.
- The Japanese prime minister says he hopes to hold telephone talks with the U.S. president before a second U.S.-North Korea summit planned for next month.
- Pope Francis has expressed his desire to visit Japan this November. It will be his first trip to Japan as head of the Catholic Church.
- The leaders of Japan and Russia have agreed to further accelerate negotiations on concluding a peace treaty that would include resolving the issue of four Russian-held islands claimed by Japan.
- The foreign ministers of Japan and South Korea are to hold their first meeting since the South Korean Supreme Court’s ruling on the wartime labor issue.
- The U.S. government is likely to speed up its preparations for a second summit between the U.S. president and North Korean leader.