1. Japan’s Prime Minister Ishiba Shigeru and Portuguese Prime Minister Luis Montenegro have pledged to further develop economic relations between the two countries.
2. Japan says it has compiled a joint statement on foreign exchange policy with the United States. It follows the signing of a document on US tariffs by the two countries. Japanese Finance Minister Kato Katsunobu announced on Friday that he and US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent reaffirmed that exchange rates should be determined by markets.
3. Brazil’s Supreme Court has sentenced former President Jair Bolsonaro to 27 years and three months in prison for plotting a coup to overturn the results of the 2022 presidential election.