1. Overseas-bound travelers are crowding an international airport in the central Japanese prefecture of Aichi, ahead of the year-end and New Year holidays. Airport officials say that on Friday more than 8,200 people had booked departures from the Chubu Centrair International Airport. Outbound travel is expected to peak on Saturday, with nearly 9,000 bookings.
2. Japan’s government has approved a draft budget for the next fiscal year starting in April, 2025. It is the largest-ever initial draft budget in yen terms and is worth about 115.5 trillion yen, or 732 billion dollars. Prime Minister Ishiba Shigeru’s Cabinet approved the bill on Friday. The draft budget has exceeded the 110 trillion yen-mark for the third consecutive year.
3. Multiple media outlets say an Azerbaijan Airlines passenger plane that crashed in Kazakhstan on Wednesday was downed by a Russian air defense system. Reuters and other media outlets broke the news on Thursday. They quoted sources in Azerbaijan.
カテゴリー: