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- An international conference on Asa-Pacific security challenges will open in Singapore on Friday, with top defense officials from the United States and China attending.
- The foreign and defense ministers of Japan and Russia remain at odds over some security issues, including the Russian-controlled islands claimed by Japan.
- The Internal Affairs Ministry said on Friday that Japan’s unemployment rate in April marked its first decline in two months.
- A video of a man randomly attacking a group of schoolchildren waiting for a school bus in Kawasaki, near Tokyo, on Tuesday was captured on the onboard camera of the bus.
- Japanese and Russian foreign and defense ministers are scheduled to meet on Thursday in Tokyo.
- The Dow Jones industrial average fell more than 200 points for the second straight day on global concern over global economic slowdown.