1. A hot spring in western Japan is marking Respect For the Aged Day on September 15 by floating wood boards in the baths that bear messages from children to seniors. The boards are about 9 centimeters in diameter. Ones with messages such as “stay fit forever” were put in the men’s open-air bath. Bathers were reading them, while taking in the aroma of cypress.
2. Senior government officials from the United States and China have begun a new round of trade talks in Spain with a focus on the sale of Tik Tok’s American operations. In previous rounds, the US and China slashed additional tariffs that they had imposed on each other, and suspended some of the tariffs until November while they continue talks.
3. A large-scale anti-immigration protest took place in London on Saturday, capping more than a week of demonstrations across Britain. According to British media, over 30,000 asylum seekers were being housed in around 200 hotels in England and Wales as of the end of March. Tensions escalated in July after an Ethiopian asylum seeker staying at a hotel in Essex, southeast England, was charged with sexual assault and other offences.