Japan's education and culture minister, Nagaoka Keiko, says she will exercise the government's legal authority on Tuesday to question the religious group formerly known as the Unification Church.
Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio has dismissed another Cabinet minister. Internal affairs minister Terada Minoru has been under fire over a series of allegations of inaccurate political funding reports. Kishida has now lost three ministers in just one month.
Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio and Chinese President Xi Jinping have met in Bangkok. It marks the first bilateral in person summit for their countries in three years.
The APEC (Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation) ministerial meeting in Thailand has come to a close, but there are still conflicting views on how to include the impact of Russia's invasion of Ukraine on the region's economy in the ministerial statement, which continues to be coordinated.
According to statistics on machinery orders, which show the outlook for corporate capital investment, the value of orders received by major machinery manufacturers from domestic companies between July and September this year, excluding ship and power orders, which fluctuate widely, was 2,743.8 billion yen, down 1.6% compared to the previous three months.
Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio is scheduled to hold summit talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Thailand, after a Group of 20 summit wraps up on Wednesday.
Japan's Prime Minister Kishida Fumio has decided to dismiss Justice Minister Hanashi Yasuhiro, who has been under fire for controversial remarks. Kishida conveyed his decision to senior officials of the Liberal Democratic Party.
Japan's top government spokesperson has reiterated that no coronavirus-related restrictions on people's activities will be imposed in principle unless a new strain more powerful than the Omicron variant emerges.
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