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- Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says evidence suggests that an Iranian missile shot down a Ukrainian passenger jet that crashed on Wednesday.
- Japan’s Defense Minister Taro Kono is set to order the dispatch of a Self-Defense Force mission to the Middle East on Friday despite heightened tensions in the region.
- Japan and the Philippines have agreed to strengthen bilateral maritime security cooperation amid China’s increasing maritime activities in the South China Sea.
- U.S. President is striking a measured tone in his response to Iran firing missiles at American military facilities in Iraq.
- Japan’s government is set to decide whether Prime Minister Shinzo Abe should go ahead with his planned visit to the Middle East.
- Former Nissan Motor chairman Carlos Ghosn made his case to the media on Wednesday in Beirut, a little more than a week after skipping bail and fleeing Japan.
- The U.S. Defense Department says Iran launched more than a dozen ballistic missiles targeting American military and coalition forces stationed in Iraq.
- Former Nissan Motor chairman Carlos Ghosn is set to hold a news conference in Lebanon on Wednesday.
- A rapidly developing low pressure system is feared to bring violent winds on wide areas of western and northern Japan on Wednesday through Thursday morning.
- The international community is urging the United States and Iran to exercise self-restraint following a pledge by Tehran to take revenge for the killing of a top military commander.
- South Korean President Moon Jae-in has expressed willingness to improve bilateral ties with Japan, but said he will continue to demand that export controls be reviewed.
- Japan’s chief cabinet secretary has said the government will make every diplomatic effort to realize the extradition of former Nissan Motor chairman Carlos Ghosn.
- A series of funerals and memorial rallies have begun around Iran for a top Iranian military commander killed in a U.S. drone attack in Baghdad.
- Share prices in Tokyo have opened sharply lower in the year’s first trading session.
- A Turkish newspaper has reported that former Nissan Motor chairman Carlos Ghosn was able to jump bail and secretly leave Japan by evading immigration officials and hide inside cargo containers on private jets.
- The body of an Iranian military commander killed in Iraq has arrived in Iran, with a funeral and other memorial events scheduled across the nation.
- U.S. President Donald Trump tweeted that the U.S. has targeted 52 Iranian sites that it would strike if Iran attacks Americans or U.S. assets.
- Sources say inspectors at a Japanese airport conducted no pre-flight x-ray checks on large cases loaded onto a private jet that is thought to have carried Carlos Ghosn.
- The U.S. military has reported the attack on a Shia military group near the capital Baghdad, leaving six people dead. Earlier, the U.S. forces killed top Iranian military leader Qassem Soleimani near Baghdad airport.
- Authorities in Lebanon plan to hear from former Nissan Motor chairman Carlos Ghosn about his arrival in the country, while out on bail in Japan.
- Lebanon’s caretaker justice minister says his country has received an international wanted notice for former Nissan Motor chairman Carlos Ghosn from Interpol.
- The South Korean government has achieved stable domestic supply of a hydrogen fluoride—a chemical use of making semiconductors.
- Hong Kong police say they arrested 420 people during anti-government protests on New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day.
- A British newspaper says the Lebanese government asked for the return of former Nissan Motor chairman Carlos Ghosn from Japan, 10 days before he flee to Lebanon.
- Police in Hong Kong have moved to break up an annual New Year’s Day protest march attended by tens of thousands of people, citing reports of vandalism.
- Demonstrators at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad have withdrawn after two days of violent protest.
- Sources say the Tokyo District Court ahs decided to revoke the bail of former Nissan Motor chairman Carlos Ghosn.
- U.S. President Donald Trump says he will sign a trade deal with China in Washington on January 15.
- A new trade agreement between Japan and the United States entered into force on Wednesday.