July 16, Tuesday, 2019 (2:00 p.m.) Read by Ms. Hiroko Kitadai and Ms. Fumiko Konoe

  1. South Korean plaintiffs seeking damages for wartime labor plant to begin court procedures soon to sell assets they seized from Japan’s Mitsubishi Heavy Industries.
  2. U.S. Democrats have slammed President Donald Trump’s tweets that their progressive congresswomen should “go back to where they came from.”
  3. Pacific Rim countries are holding a fisheries conference on measures to maintain the stocks of Pacific saury in the North Pacific.

July 15, Monday, 2019 (2:00 p.m.) Read by Mr. Yoshi Ogasawara and Ms. Emma Howard

  1. China has posted its slowest economic growth since the country began releasing its quarterly GDP data in 1992.
  2. People protesting the controversial extradition bill in Hong Kong have clashed with police, resulting in injuries.
  3. The South Korean government says it will explain problems and unfairness of Japan’s export restrictions at the de facto top decision-making body of the World Trade Organization.