1. People across much of Japan sweated through a second day of unseasonably hot weather on Wednesday.
2. Group of Seven finance officials are set to meet for discussions that are expected to be dominated by US tariffs and the impact on the global economy. The two-day gathering of G7 finance ministers and central bank governors will kick off on Wednesday in Banff, Canada. 3. Japan’s Prime Minister Ishiba Shigeru had decided to appoint Koizumi Shinjiro, the former chairperson of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party’s Election Strategy Committee, to succeed Eto Taku as agriculture minister.