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- People across Japan are casting their ballots in the Upper House election. About 47,000 polling stations opened at 7:00 a.m. on Sunday.
- Japan’s meteorological agency says 110 millimeters of rain fell in one hour in Fukuoka and Saga Prefectures. The agency has issued warnings for flooding and landslides in the area.
- Police say the suspect in an arson attack that killed dozens of people at an animation studio in Kyoto may have used a bucket to spray gasoline before setting it afire.
- Japan’s Meteorological Agency has issued an emergency warning for extremely heavy rain in parts of Nagasaki Prefecture, southwestern Japan.
- Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps says it has seized a British-flagged tanker in the Strait of Hormuz, for what it described as a violation of international maritime regulations.
- China’s state-run television says a massive explosion at a gasification plant in the central province of Henan has left at least 10 people dead and five others missing, with 19 people seriously injured.
- South Korea has missed the Thursday deadline for responding to Japan’s request to start a third-party arbitration process over a wartime labor dispute.
- Police in Japan say 33 people were killed and 35 wounded after a suspected arson attack at an animation studio in Kyoto.
- The United States has imposed sanctions on an international network of seven entities and five individuals, accusing them of supporting Iran’s uranium enrichment.
- South Korea will likely fail to meet the deadline for acting to establish an arbitration panel on the issue of wartime labor.
- Japan is to call for abolishing import restrictions on Japanese food introduced after the 2011 nuclear accident in the country at a World Trade Organization meeting on Thursday.
- A fire at an animation studio in the city of Kyoto, western Japan, has reportedly injured more than 30 people.
- A senior official of South Korea’s presidential office says the government will deal resolutely with Japan’s stricter export restrictions against the country.
- The finance ministers of the Group of Seven economies will kick off a two-day meeting in France on Wednesday for which the regulation of crypto-assets is going to be high on the agenda.
- A U.S. State Department official says the United States will brief other countries on Friday on a new initiative to ensure security in the Strait of Hormuz.
- 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.
- U.S. Democrats have slammed President Donald Trump’s tweets that their progressive congresswomen should “go back to where they came from.”
- Pacific Rim countries are holding a fisheries conference on measures to maintain the stocks of Pacific saury in the North Pacific.
- China has posted its slowest economic growth since the country began releasing its quarterly GDP data in 1992.
- People protesting the controversial extradition bill in Hong Kong have clashed with police, resulting in injuries.
- 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.
- Britain’s foreign secretary says an Iranian tanker seized off the British territory of Gibraltar could be released if Tehran guarantees that the ship would not head to Syria.
- Twenty-six people, including several foreign nationals, have been killed in an attack on a hotel in southern Somalia.
- An international fisheries commission is warning that declining stocks of Pacific saury may not fully recover if the fish continues to be caught at the current pace.
- As tensions continue over Japan’s stricter export curbs against South Korea, officials from both governments have held talks since the measures were imposed on July 4.
- China’s Foreign Ministry says sanctions will be imposed on U.S. companies that sell arms to Taiwan.
- Britain is sending a second warship to the Strait of Hormuz amid an escalation in tensions with Iran over recent incidents in the region.
- Japan and South Korea are discussing in Tokyo Japan’s tightened curbs on exports of some materials to South Korea.
- Authorities in the British territory of Gibraltar say they have arrested the captain and chief officer of an Iranian supertanker they seized last week.
- The nominee for the U.S. military’s top post says China will be the main challenge to U.S. national security over the next 50 to 100 years.