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- 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.
- French prosecutors says an investigating judge may again question the chief of the Japanese Olympic Committee to decide whether to open a trial for an alleged corruption case.
- The foreign and defense ministers of Japan and France have expressed strong concern about China’s maritime assertiveness. They have agreed to establish a dialogue framework to boost maritime cooperation.
- An 18-year-old Saudi woman who said she fled to Thailand to escape abuse by her family has left for Canada after receiving an offer of asylum there.
- Japanese prosecutors are expected to soon indict former Nissan Motor chairman Carlos Ghosn on anther charge—aggravated breach of trust.
- Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has urged his British counterpart, Theresa May, to avoid a no deal Brexit.
- U.S. Donald Trump has again stated the need for building a border wall during his visit to the U.S.-Mexico border in the southern state of Texas.
- China’s state-run Xinhua news agency says North Korean leader Kim Jong Un vowed to work toward a good result at a second summit with U.S. President Donald Trump.
- Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe says Japan and the Netherlands have agreed to work together on global challenges for the Group of 20 summit to be held in Japan in June.
- Japan and Nepal have agreed to compile a document related to Japan’s new system that allows more foreign workers into the country.
- Japan’s Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga says the government plans to soon ask South Korea for talks based on a 1965 bilateral deal to discuss the recent court-ordered seizure of assets of a Japanese firm.
- NHK has learned that former Nissan Motor chairman Carlos Ghosn allegedly tried to loan millions of dollars of company funds to a Saudi businessman as part of the efforts to obtain a credit guarantee for his financial deals.
- Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has left for the Netherlands and Britain for separate summit talks with the countries’ leaders.
- Nissan Motor’s former chairman Carlos Ghosn has told a Tokyo court that all the allegations of financial wrongdoing against him are baseless.
- North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has arrived in Beijing in his fourth visit to China.
- Japan’s foreign minister says the government is considering necessary measures in case a Japanese firm is impacted by a wartime labor lawsuit in South Korea.