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- One of the most powerful storms of the year is on track to hit wide areas of eastern Japan this weekend.
- Senior officials from Japan and South Korea will start talks in a bid to resolve their trade dispute under the framework of the World Trade Organization.
- Nissan Motor has expressed a sense of crisis about the possible impact of export tariffs if Britain leaves the European Union without reaching a deal.
- Turkey’s Defense Ministry says the military has launched ground operations into Northern Syria, targeting Kurdish forces. Eight people, including civilians, have been reportedly killed.
- Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has congratulated Japanese scientist Akira Yoshino for winning this year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
- Typhoon Hagibis could make landfall in eastern Japan on Saturday, bringing gale force winds and heavy rains over a wide area.
- Six European nations have jointly condemned North Korea for test-firing a submarine-launched ballistic missile last week.
- Diplomats from Japan, the United States and South Korea meeting in Washington on Tuesday reaffirmed the importance of cooperation in working toward the denuclearization of North Korea.
- Prime Minister Shinzo Abe plans to meet dignitaries from about 50 countries who will come to Japan to attend a ceremony to announce Emperor Naruhito’s accession to the throne.
- Japan has lodged a protest against North Korea over a collision between one of its patrol ships and a North Korean fishing boat in Japan’s exclusive economic zone.
- Japan’s board of Audit says it has found flawed government communication lines for nuclear emergencies.
- Japan and the U.S. have signed a bilateral trade pact.
- A Japanese Fisheries Agency vessel and a large North Korean fishing boat have collided in the Sea of Japan.
- More than half of subway stations in Hong Kong are out of service Monday after protesters vandalized stations over the weekend.
- North Korean chief negotiator, Kim Myong Gil, has expressed doubt over the continuation of talks with the United States on the North’s denuclearization.
- U.S. officials want to restart denuclearization talks with their North Korean counterparts, but observers say Pyongyang has put the ball back into U.S. President Donald Trump’s court.
- In Hong Kong, anti-government protesters wearing face masks marched on Saturday despite the prohibition on such coverings at rallies.
- The European Union has informed the Japanese government that it will likely ease import restrictions on Japanese food products before the end of the year.
- In Hong Kong, pro-democracy protesters took to the streets on Friday night after the government announced a ban on face masks at rallies.
- A 14-year-old boy was wounded after a police officer shot him with a live round.
- Officials from the United States and North Korea have met in Sweden ahead of planned working-level talks on Saturday.
- U.S. President Donald Trump says his country will hold talks with North Korea despite its launch of a new ballistic missile from a submarine.
- Teenage Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg has updated her Twitter profile in an apparent bid to protest criticism made by Russian President Vladimir Putin.
- Major Japanese non-life insurance firm Tokio Marine Holdings says it will buy U.S.-based Pure Group for 3.1 billion dollars.
- North Korea’s state-run media reports that the country has succeeded in test-firing a submarine-launched ballistic missile.
- South Korean prosecutors are questioning the wife of Justice Minister Cho Kuk for the first time over shady investments and other allegations involving the family.
- Heightened concerns over the U.S. economic outlook have triggered a selloff on Wall Street.
- South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff says Pyongyang appears to have fired a submarine-launched ballistic missile, or SLBM.
- NHK has learned that the chiefs of the U.S. and South Korean militaries and Japan’s Self-Defense Forces have held tripartite talks.
- Hong Kong’s police chief says officers fired a total of six live rounds at four locations as they clashed with protesters on Tuesday.