- Japan’s State Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, Ichiro Tsukada, has offered to resign over comments about a project involving the constituencies of the prime minister and deputy prime minister.
- Former Nissan Motor chairman Carlos Ghosn has again denied charges of financial misconduct white at the automaker.
- U.S. President Donald Trump says a trade deal with China is close and could come within a matter of four weeks.
April 5, Friday, 2019 (2:00 p.m.) Read by Ms. Emma Howard and Ms. Sara Macdonald