1. Food and drink prices in Japan are rising at an accelerating pace, driven higher by the increasing cost of raw materials. Private research firm Teikoku Databank polled nearly 200 major domestic food and beverage makers. The survey found they are preparing to raise the prices on 2,343 items this month.
2. Japan’s Prime Minister Ishiba Shigeru says he will make efforts to seek US involvement and Group of Seven unit in dealing with the conflict in Ukraine. He was commenting on the heated exchange between US President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the White House on Friday.
3. An iconic atomic bomb survivor has appealed for increased efforts for nuclear disarmament at an event in New York ahead of the third Meeting of States Parties to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. Setsuko Thurlow, who now lives in Canada, was 13 years old when an atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. She has been working for nuclear disarmament for over half a century and helped create the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.
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