The leaders of Japan and Kenya have agreed to work together to promote a free and open Indo-Pacific, and to closely coordinate on the situation in Sudan, where military clashes continue.
The foreign ministers of the Group of Seven nations have discussed relations with China. They agreed they are opposed to any unilateral attempt to change the status quo by force and reaffirmed the importance of peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait.
A high-ranking South Korean government official has said his country's President Yoon Suk-yeol has indicated that Japan had apologized enough for its colonial past.
North Korea says it test-fired missiles from the country's southwest. A commander reportedly pledged that its troops will "annihilate the enemy" if fighting breaks out.
Japan has sent construction and engineering experts to Turkey to help rebuild communities and infrastructure damaged by powerful earthquakes last month.