- Finance ministers and central bank governors of the Group of 20 economies have opened a two-day meeting in Japan. The focus is on whether they can adopt a common front to ease an escalating trade dispute between the United States and China.
- Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe says he will do all he can to advance economic cooperation on four Russian-held islands claimed by Japan and peace treaty talks with Russia.
June 8, Saturday, 2019 (2:00 p.m.) Read by Ms. Fumiko Konoe and Ms. Risa Shimizu