1. Japan’s Nippon Steel says a US government panel has decided to let President Joe Biden decide whether it can buy US Steel. Biden has repeatedly expressed his opposition to the deal, but he is now expected to announce his decision within 15 days after receiving the committee’s report.
2. Japan’s Environment Ministry has decided to require regular testing of tap water and set a legal standard for the concentration of PFAS chemicals, a group of organic fluorine compounds. PFAS include PFOS and PFOA, which are considered potentially harmful.
3. Seeing a loved one with dementia can be painful. Confidence gives way to confusion. And dementia sufferers sometimes forget the impossible: basic tasks. Even the name of a child or spouse. But many sufferers become more than lost psychologically. Last year, over 19,000 people diagnosed or showing signs of dementia in Japan went missing. The figure is a record. About 500 were discovered dead. 250 still had not been found.
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