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- A U.S. defense official says Defense Secretary James Mattis is considering visiting Japan and South Korea in early February.
- The Japanese government will continue to seek the United States’ understanding of the benefits of the Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade agreement.
- Toyota Motor says it will invest about 600 million dollars to improve its plant in the U.S. state of Indiana and hire 400 local workers.
- U.S. President Donald Trump has signed a presidential memorandum formally withdrawing the United States from the Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade deal.
- The new Trump administration has vowed to protect U.S. interests in international waters in the South China Sea.
- Peace talks aimed at ending Syria’s civil war have got off to a rocky start, with government representatives and opposition delegates trading criticism over a ceasefire.
- A Japanese government panel discussing Emperor Akihito’s apparent wish to abdicate will release a report later today summarizing its deliberations.
- The White House says President Donald Trump has invited Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Washington in early February.
- Members of Syria’s government and rebel delegates are to hold peace talks in Kazakhstan on Monday.
- Millions of people have taken to city streets across the United States opposing the agenda of new President Donald Trump.
- Leaders of Europe’s right and far-right parties have gathered in Germany to present a united front ahead of major elections later this year.
- The United Nations cultural agency has strongly condemned Islamic State militants for further destroying cultural assets in the central Syrian city of Palmyra.
- Donald Trump has been sworn in as the 45th president of the United States. In his inauguration address, Trump made clear his stance to place top priority on U.S. interests.
- The administration of new U.S. President Donald Trump has announced that the U.S. is withdrawing from the Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade agreement.
- South Korea’s special prosecutor has arrested the culture minister and a former senior official in connection with the scandal surrounding President Park Geun-hye.
- U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has stressed that he will bring about changes to the United States on the eve of his inauguration.
- Officials with China’s National Bureau of Statistics say the economy has expanded but the pace of growth continued to slow in 2016.
- Japan’s government will soon notify New Zealand that it has completed its domestic procedures for implementing the Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade agreement.
- A special prosecutors’ team in South Korea has requested an arrest warrant for Culture Minister Cho Yoon-sun. She is suspected of abusing her power.
- Struggling Japanese electronics giant Toshiba has come up with another plan to strengthen its capital base.
- The Iraqi government says its forces are in “full control” of eastern Mosul, the largest stronghold of the Islamic State militant group.
- British Prime Minister Theresa May says her country will seek a complete withdrawal from the European Union.
- Japanese companies will likely review their business strategies for Europe as May says her country will take a “hard Brexit”.
- Italian Antonio Tajani has been elected President of the European Parliament.
- Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has pledged to work for peace and prosperity in the Asia-Pacific region.
- Leaders from around the world are expected to discuss how Donald Trump’s policies will impact the global economy at the annual meeting of the world economic forum in Davos.
- People in Japan are remembering the victims of a powerful earthquake that devastated the western city of Kobe and its surrounding areas 22 years ago.
- Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is on his way to Vietnam, the last leg of his 4-nation tour of the Asia-Pacific region.
- Japan and the United Arab Emirates have agreed to extend a Japanese company’s interests in an oil field off the Middle Eastern country.
- U.S. organizers have held a rehearsal for the coming inauguration ceremony for President-elect Donald Trump.