- Japan has used the G20 meeting to propose setting up an international framework for cooperative research into how to dispose of high-level radioactive waste from nuclear power plants.
- The police officer who was stabbed in Osaka Prefecture early Sunday morning remain unconscious.
- The Chinese State Council’s Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office has expressed support for the Hong Kong Chief Executive’s decision to suspend a proposed bill for the extradition of criminal suspects to mainland China.
June 16, Sunday, 2019 (2:00 p.m.) Read by Mr. Hirokazu Sakamaki and Ms. Keiko Kitagawa