May 31, Friday, 2019 (2:00 p.m.) Read by Ms. Sara Macdonald and Ms. Emma Howard

  1. 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.
  2. The foreign and defense ministers of Japan and Russia remain at odds over some security issues, including the Russian-controlled islands claimed by Japan.
  3. The Internal Affairs Ministry said on Friday that Japan’s unemployment rate in April marked its first decline in two months.

May 30, Thursday, 2019 (2:00 p.m.) Read by Ms. Yuka Matsumoto and Ms. Hiroko Kitadai

  1. 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.
  2. Japanese and Russian foreign and defense ministers are scheduled to meet on Thursday in Tokyo.
  3. The Dow Jones industrial average fell more than 200 points for the second straight day on global concern over global economic slowdown.