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