The Japanese prime minister met with the former Osaka City mayor on Saturday night at a Tokyo hotel, only a day after the lawyer-turned-politician left office, ending his stormy political career.

Japan’s prime minister and the South Korean president held their first summit in Seoul on Monday, vowing to resolve disputes over wartime history to improve bilateral relations.

In a Cabinet reshuffle on Wednesday, Japan’s Prime Minister appointed a deputy chief Cabinet secretary to a new ministerial post for building a society in which all 100 million people can be active.

China held a major military parade in Beijing on Thursday to commemorate the end of World War II while President Xi Jinping made a pledge to cut the number of troops by 300,000.

North and South Korea resumed high-level talks on Sunday in a bid to ease tensions on the peninsula after the two sides exchanged artillery fire last week.

The ruling Liberal Democratic Party punished four of its lawmakers on Saturday for calling for pressure on the media at a recent study meeting.

Voters rejected by a small margin the Osaka metropolis plan to convert the city of Osaka into five special wards in a local referendum on Sunday.

Hillary Rodham Clinton, the former first lady and secretary of state, officially announced on Sunday via social media that she would run for U.S. president for a second time.

Japan’s Chief Cabinet Secretary and the Governor of Okinawa remained divided in a meeting on Sunday over the planned relocation of a US military base within the prefecture.

Prince William, the second-in-line to the British throne, kicked off his first official tour across Japan after being welcomed by a crowd of fans and journalists at Tokyo’s Haneda airport on Thursday.