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- Tensions are rising in Hong Kong over an expected gathering of protesters on Saturday afternoon, despite a ban by authorities.
- The U.S. government says it is imposing sanctions on two individuals and three entities for engaging in ship-to-ship oil transfers with North Korea.
- The tourism ministers of Japan, China and South Korea have agreed to work to further promote exchanges among people of the three countries through tourism.
- Leaders from Japan and more than 50 African nations have ended this year’s three-day session of a Tokyo-led conference on Africa’s development.
- Senior Foreign Ministry officials from Japan and South Korea have met in Seoul amid strained relations over trade, wartime labor and other issues.
- Hong Kong democratic activist Joshua Wong has been arrested ahead of another weekend planned protest in Hong Kong.
- Japanese and African leaders have focused on boosting public and private investment as the Tokyo International Conference on African Development enters its second day.
- Weather officials in Japan are warning of floods and landslides, one day after deadly rains slammed parts of the country prompting emergency warnings.
- A senior U.S. Defense Department official has called on South Korea to renew its intelligence-sharing pact with Japan.
- Japan’s weather officials have issued their highest emergency warning for heavy rain in the three prefectures of Saga, Fukushima and Nagasaki in western Japan.
- Leaders from over 50 African countries, representatives of international organizations, and the U.N. secretary-general are gathering in Yokohama for the opening of the Tokyo International Conference on African Development.
- Japan has removed South Korea from a list of trading partners entitled to simplified export procedures.
- French President Emmanuel Macron is touting a one-page document issued at the end of the G-7 summit as a positive achievement and a reflection of unity among the leaders.
- Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe says he and other G7 leaders have agreed to support a process being undertaken by the United States and North Korea.
- Japan and African countries are to prepare the draft of a declaration to be adopted at a Tokyo-led conference on African development.
- Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and U.S. President Donald Trump have agreed to seek the conclusion and signing of a trade deal at a bilateral summit next month.
- French President Emmanuel Macron has held talks with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on the sidelines of the Group of Seven summit.
- New threats from the U.S. and China to hit each other with additional tariffs have been shaking up financial markets in the Asia-Pacific region.
- Leaders of the Group of Seven countries have agreed to prevent Iran from becoming a nuclear power and pledged to seek peace and stability in the Middle East.
- North Korean state media has reported that the country’s leader Kim Jong Un oversaw a test of a newly developed “super-large multiple rocket launcher” on Saturday.
- Japan and the United States have reached a broad agreement in trade negotiations.
- The trade war between the United States and China is heating up, with both sides saying that they will impose more retaliatory tariffs on each other’s imports.
- North Korea launched two projectiles from the South Hamgyong Province toward the Sea of Japan on Saturday morning.
- Japan’s minister in charge of negotiating a trade deal with the United States says the two countries have agreed on the direction of talks, including what sectors should be included.
- South Korea is expected to notify Japan on Friday of its decision to terminate an intelligence-sharing pact between the two countries.
- Japan’s Foreign Minister Taro Kono has summoned South Korea’s ambassador and lodged a protest at Seoul’s decision to end the intelligence-sharing agreement.
- The U.S. Department of Defense has expressed its “strong concern” and “disappointment” at South Korea’s decision to terminate the pact.
- North Korea says it is not interested in denuclearization talks as long as the United States and South Korea keep up their “military threats.”
- Foreign ministers from Japan and South Korea have failed to narrow differences over wartime labor issues when they met in Beijing on Wednesday.
- Japan’s minister in charge of trade negotiations with the U.S. says he and his U.S. counterpart have yet to bridge their differences.