1. Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has suggested that North America, including the United States, could be called “Mexican America” as shown in an old map. The Mexican president floated her idea by showing reporters a map from the 17th century. It described North America as “America Mexicana” in Spanish, which means Mexican America. Sheinbaum said with a smile that the name “sounds nice, doesn’t it?”
2. Former Japanese Prime Minister Suga Yoshihide and US Senator Bill Hagerty have confirmed that they will work to uphold and bolster the bilateral alliance from their respective positions. Suga and Hagerty met for about 30 minutes in Washington on Wednesday. Hagerty was the US ambassador to Japan during the first Donald Trump administration. Suga will attend Thursday’s state funeral for former US President Jimmy Carter as a special envoy of Japan’s Prime Minister Ishiba Shigeru.
3. Public health officials in Japan say the average weekly number of influenza patients per medical institution has hit a 26-year high. The National Institute of Infectious Diseases says a total of 317,812 cases were reported in the week to December 29, an increase of over 100,000 from the previous week.
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