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- The foreign ministers of Japan and South Korea have held talks amid worsening bilateral relations over wartime issues.
- A series of legal battles are looming as U.S. Democrats prepare to challenge President Donald Trump’s declaration of a national emergency to get funding for a border wall with Mexico.
- U.S. President Donald Trump has indicated that he is willing to extend the March 1st deadline for the trade talks with China and tariffs on Chinese imports may continue unchanged.
- Japan’s foreign minister says he plans to urge his South Korean counterpart to have Seoul act appropriately on the issue of wartime labor.
- U.S. President Donald Trump says he will declare a national emergency to fund the building of a wall along the southern border with Mexico.
- U.S. Vice President Mike Pence has strongly urged European nations to follow the United States in withdrawing from a nuclear deal with Iran.
- Preparations are taking place to have Japan’s Foreign Minister Taro Kono meet his South Korean counterpart in Germany on Friday amid deteriorating bilateral ties.
- Official campaigning began on Thursday for a prefectural referendum on landfill work to relocate a U.S. base within the southern Japanese prefecture.
- The latest GDP data shows Japan returned to growth in the latest quarter.
- U.S. President Donald Trump has suggested he may extend the deadline for reaching a trade deal with China beyond March 1st.
- Senior U.S. military officials are welcoming the second U.S.-North Korea summit scheduled for later this month, but say Pyongyang is unlikely to give up all of its nuclear weapons.
- Japanese swimming superstar Rikako Ikee says she will start full treatment for leukemia after revealing she had the disease earlier this week.
- Prime Minister Shinzo Abe says Japan has lodged a strong protest with South Korea over remarks made by its National Assembly speaker on the issue of those referred to as comfort women.
- Vietnam’s foreign minister will visit North Korea ahead of the second summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un scheduled for later this month in Hanoi.
- U.S. President Donald Trump has blasted Iran for what he called “40 years of failure” on the anniversary of its1979 Islamic revolution.
- Monday marks the 40th anniversary of Iran’s Islamic Revolution.
- The United States and China have resumed trade talks in a bid to reach a deal by March 1st.
- Japan has pledged to provide long-term assistance for the peace process on the Philippine island of Mindanao.
- The U.S. envoy to North Korea expressed hope for a successful second U.S.-North Korea summit after meeting with Japanese and South Korean officials.
- The number of people fleeing to other countries to escape the political turmoil in Venezuela is predicted to top five million by the end of this year.
- Japan’s foreign minister says Japan supports the ongoing peace process in the Philippines, aimed at ending over 40 years of armed conflicts on Mindanao.
- U.S. President Donald Trump says he will meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at the end of this month in the Vietnamese capital of Hanoi.
- High-level trade talks between the United States and China will be held on Thursday and Friday next week.
- Japan’s government debt has topped 1,100 trillion yen for the first time.
- U.S. President Donald Trump says he has no plan to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping before March 1st, the deadline for raising tariffs on Chinese goods.
- Share prices in New York plunged on Thursday as investors are worried about the deteriorating growth outlook for the Eurozone.
- Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has ordered emergency checks within a month into cases of suspected child abuse to confirm children’s safety.
- Documents obtained by NHK show that the leadership of the Soviet Union was prepared to offer the handover of two of the four islands claimed by Japan as its biggest concession before negotiations on normalizing diplomatic ties in the 1950s.
- Lain American countries that are remaining neutral on the Venezuelan political crisis, such as Mexico and Uruguay, will hold an emergency meeting on Thursday in Uruguay’s capital, Montevideo.
- The U.S. president has nominated a senior government official known for his harline stance against China as the next World Bank chief.