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- A Tokyo court has denied another bail request by Nissan Motor’s former chairman Carlos Ghosn.]
- The Japanese prime minister is seeking progress in talks with Russia on signing a peace treaty that would include a solution to the issue of Russian-held islands.
- U.S. and North Korean officials appear to have met in Sweden, following the announcement by the U.S. of a second summit next month.
- U.S. Vice President Mike Pence says a second U.S.-North Korea summit scheduled for late February is expected to focus on specific steps toward the North’s denuclearization.
- Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is heading to Russia for talks with President Vladimir Putin.
- The French economic minister has denied news reports claiming the French government told Japanese officials that it wants to integrate Renault and Nissan Motor.
- U.S. President Donald Trump says “things are going very well with North Korea” and a country has been picked to host his second summit with the North’s leader Kim Jong Un.
- The U.S. military has said an air strike in Somalia on Saturday killed 52 members of an Islamic militant group.
- A gasoline pipeline has exploded in central Mexico. Local authorities say at least 66 people were killed.
- The White House says the second U.S.-North Korea summit will take place “near the end of February.”
- Japan’s Defense Ministry plans to make public new evidence to support its claim that a South Korean naval vessel directed its fire-control radar at a Japanese patrol plane.
- More than half of a million high-school students and graduates across Japan are putting their knowledge to the test at unified college and university entrance exams.
- A close aide to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has arrived in the United States, apparently to discuss a second summit between the two countries’ leaders.
- Former Nissan Motor chairman Carlos Ghosn’s attorneys have made another request for bail to the Tokyo District Court.
- Japan has launched a 26-meter-long Epsilon-4 rocket carrying seven small satellites from the Uchinoura Space Center in Kagoshima Prefecture, southwestern Japan.
- Thursday marks 24 years since the Great Hanshin Earthquake devastated western Japan.
- The French minister of the economy and finance says France’s government would like Renault to hold a board meeting within days and decide on new management.
- The defense chiefs of Japan and the United States have reaffirmed close cooperation in dealing with China’s growing maritime presence and other regional matters.
- Britain’s parliament has overwhelmingly rejected Prime Minister Theresa May’s deal for leaving the European Union.
- In NHK’s latest opinion poll, Japanese voters’ approval rating for the Cabinet of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe stood at 43 percent.
- Multiple casualties are being reported in Kenya after an armed group stormed an upscale hotel and office complex in the capital, Nairobi.
- The foreign ministers of Japan and Russia have agreed that their leaders will meet in Moscow next week.
- Japan and South Korea failed to narrow their differences over last month’s radar incident in a meeting between their defense officials.
- A court in Tokyo is expected to decide as early as Tuesday whether it grants bail to former Nissan Motor Chairman Carlos Ghosn.
- Israel’s prime minister says the country’s military carried out an airstrike on Iranian targets in Syria.
- A French far-right party has launched a campaign for this year’s European Parliament election, and is pledging to retake authority from the E.U.
- Japan has denied refusing to hold a news conference after Foreign Minister Taro Kono meets his Russian counterpart, Sergey Lavrov in Moscow on Monday.
- Japan’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson has written an article rebutting a New York Times editorial that slammed the country’s plan to resume commercial whaling.
- Japan’s Agricultural Ministry will conduct a survey to check whether the fertilized eggs of premium wagyu beef cattle are properly managed in the country.
- Chinese telecoms giant Huawei Technologies says it has dismissed an employee who was arrested in Poland on suspicion of spying.