November 5, Tuesday, 2024

1. Japanese Prime Minister Ishiba Shigeru told reporters on Tuesday that North Korea fired multiple ballistic missiles earlier in the morning, following a launch just last week. Ishiba said the missiles are believed to have fallen outside Japan’s Exclusive Economic Zone, and that there have been no reports of damage so far. 2. US Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump held competing events to appeal to voters in the battleground state of Pennsylvania on the eve of the country’s presidential election. The two have remained neck and neck in recent polls. Both Harris and Trump visited the state, which has the largest number of electors among the seven battleground states, on Monday night.
3. Celebrated manga artist Umezu Kazuo has died aged 88. He was known for a wide range of works, from horror and science fiction to comedy. Umezu was born in Wakayama Prefecture in western Japan and started drawing comics when he was still a child. He was first published in his senior year of high school, with works including “Mori no Kyodai,” based on the fairy tale “Hansel and Gretel.”