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- Japan and the U.S. have agreed to boost cooperation in the fields of cyber security and outer space.
- A Russian presidential spokesperson says his government will do everything it can to prompt denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.
- A senior official of Russia’s presidential office says the first meeting between President Vladimir Putin and North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un will likely take place next week.
- The Japanese government has officially decided to hold Emperor Akihito’s abdication ceremony on April 30 as an act of state stipulated under the Constitution.
- People in Paris have taken part in a ceremony in show of solidarity to rebuild the fire-damaged Notre-Dame Cathedral.
- North Korea’s state media say its leader Kim Jong Un oversaw a testfiring of a new type of tactical guided weapon on Wednesday.
- The European Union is considering tariffs on 20 billion dollars’ worth of products from the United States in the latest development in their dispute over aircraft makers.
- U.S. media are reporting that the United States and China are planning to resume trade talks this month.
- Japan and the United States have wrapped up their first round of talks aimed at reaching a new trade deal.
- A U.S. think tank says its latest satellite imagery of North Korea’s Nyongbyon nuclear complex shows specialized railcars, associated with nuclear fuel processing.
- The 2020 Tokyo Olympic organizing committee has announced a detailed schedule for the 17-day event.
- Japan and the United States launched a new round of trade talks on Monday.
- Japanese and Chinese foreign ministers have reaffirmed the need to develop bilateral relations and also work closely together for the G-20 summit in June.
- The blaze that ravaged the Cathedral of Notre-Dame in Paris, one of the city’s iconic landmarks, was brought under control by firefighters about 10 hours after it broke out.
- The operator of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant has begun removing nuclear fuel from a storage pool inside one of the damaged reactor buildings at the complex.
- China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi has expressed his willingness to boost economic cooperation with Japan.
- Japan and the United States are set to kick off a new round of trade negotiations hoping to strike a two-way agreement.
- U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin has reiterated Washington’s demand that a trade agreement with Japan include a provision to prevent competitive currency devaluation.
- Japan will call on China to strengthen measures to protect intellectual property rights as the two countries hold a high-level economic dialogue in Beijing.
- The latest opinion polls show that Indonesia’s incumbent president Joko Widodo still leads his election rival, but the gap has been shrinking.
- North Korea’s state media says leader Kim Jong Un is open to a third summit with U.S. President Donald Trump, as long as Washington offers mutually acceptable terms for an agreement.
- In the meeting of the Group of 20 nations’ finance chiefs, Japan called on other countries to cooperate and implement structural reforms to correct global current account imbalances that are behind trade friction.
- The top executives from Nissan Motor, Mitsubishi Motors and Renault have convened for the first meeting of the auto alliance’s new oversight body.
- Officials from the Group of 20 major economies have begun a two-day meeting in Washington amid concerns that the global economy is slowing.
- U.S. President Donald Trump and South Korean President Moon Jae-in have discussed denuclearization of North Korea.
- The World Trade Organization has ruled in South Korea’s favor in a dispute over the country’s ban on Japanese seafood imports.
- Japan’s minister for the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games has resigned.
- An international group of scientists says it has successfully captured the first-ever image of a black hole.
- The European Union has agreed to another postponement of Britain’s withdrawal from the EU to October 31st.