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- South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff say North Korea launched two short-range ballistic missiles into the Sea of Japan on Wednesday morning from the vicinity of the eastern city of Wonsan.
- Foreign ministers for the Association of Southeast Asian Nations kicked off their meeting in Bangkok on Wednesday.
- Police are to look into a novel written by a person with the same name as the suspect in the deadly arson attack on a Kyoto Animation studio.
- The Japanese government says it has determined that two projectiles fired by North Korea last week were short-range ballistic missiles.
- Civil servants in Hong Kong plan to hold a rally to express their opposition to the government’s handling of the pro-democracy protests.
- Police in Japan have reportedly confiscated papers from the home of the suspect of the Kyoto Animation arson attack. He may have intended for them to become a novel.
- Unrest has been deepening in Hong Kong since some protesters clashed with police and took aggressive action on Sunday.
- Taiwan’s largest opposition party has nominated the mayor of the southern city of Kaohsiung as its candidate in next year’s presidential election.
- The Japanese government is considering helping the recovery of the animation studio in Kyoto that suffered a deadly arson attack.
- North Korean leader Kim Jong Un paid tribute to those who died in the Korean War on the 66th anniversary of the armistice that ended fighting.
- Russian police have detained more than one thousand people who staged a protest against the exclusion of more than 50 opposition candidates from a local election.
- Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen has expressed concern about China’s latest defense report and stressed her commitment to working with the international community to confront the country.
- A tropical storm is bringing dangerous levels of rain and the risk of landslides to parts of western and central Japan.
- Japan’s Defense Ministry says two projectiles launched by North Korea on Thursday has trajectories that were “irregular” when compared to conventional ballistic missiles.
- The firefighters who responded to the deadly fire at an animation studio in Kyoto say they wanted to do as much as they could but were not able to because the entire facility was engulfed in flames.
- North Korea’s state-run media says the country’s leader Kim Jong Un on Thursday oversaw the firing of “a new type of tactical guided weapon.”
- The new U.S. secretary of defense has stressed the need for the fair sharing of contributions among U.S. allies, to ensure global security.
- Police have searched the home of the suspect of a fatal arson attack at a Kyoto Animation studio in Kyoto City last week.
- South Korea’s military has revealed that two projectiles North Korea fired toward the Sea of Japan early Thursday appear to have been short-range missiles, resembling those launched in May.
- Tokyo and Seoul remain at loggerheads over Japan’s tightening of export controls on some high-tech materials for the South Korean market.
- The U.S. government has announced that ministerial trade talks with China will resume in Shanghai from Tuesday.
- Wednesday marks one year until the start of the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games, with preparations for the event progressing on schedule.
- Members of the World Trade Organization will discuss Japan’s tightening of export restrictions on some high-tech materials to South Korea on Wednesday.
- Industry sources say Japan’s Nissan Motor will cut more than 10 thousand jobs globally over the next several years.
- Media in South Korea report that a Russian military aircraft violated what the South claims to be its airspace near the Takeshima Islands in the Sea of Japan on Tuesday morning.
- Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is expected to reshuffle his Cabinet and ruling party executives in mid-September.
- Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda has indicated the BOJ is prepared to step up its easing measures if necessary.
- Japan’s ruling coalition is set to maintain control of the Upper House following Sunday’s election.
- People in Hong Kong have held another massive rally against the controversial extradition bill, while some protesters defaced Beijing’s representative office.
- China’s state-run media say Chinese companies are preparing to make new purchases of U.S. agricultural items.