The Justice Ministry is considering amending the Civil Code to raise the legal marriage age for women from 16 to 18, the same age at which men are legally allowed to marry.

Voters in the Japanese capital of Tokyo elected their first woman governor among a record 21 candidates on Sunday after her predecessor resigned over a financial scandal in June.

In the upper house election on Sunday, the first national election since Japan lowered the voting age from 20 to 18, some media exit polls showed the ruling coalition won a landslide victory.

While the presidential nominees of both major parties have historically low approval ratings, most Americans have never heard of Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson, a third party option.

US President Barack Obama made a brief but historic visit to Hiroshima to offer respects to the victims of the atomic bomb the United States dropped on the city in 1945.

The embattled Tokyo governor apologized to the public on Friday for diverting political funds for private purposes but maintained that his actions were within the law.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un told a party congress on Sunday that his country will not use nuclear weapons unless its sovereignty is threatened by other nuclear powers.

A new opposition party was launched on Sunday through the merger of the Democratic Party of Japan and the Japan Innovation Party in a bid to boost its chances in upper house elections this summer.

North Korea successfully launched a long-range missile carrying a satellite on Sunday. The United States denounced the event as a provocative action.

At the Iowa caucuses on Monday, the first vote in the US primary election, billionaire Donald Trump failed to win the Republican race, while Democrat Hillary Clinton declared victory by a slim margin.

Relations between Saudi Arabia and Iran, two big oil producers in the Middle East, quickly deteriorated following the kingdom’s execution of a top Shiite cleric on Saturday.

Japan and South Korea reached a landmark agreement in late December to settle a dispute over “comfort women” during World War II, but the deal is drawing a backlash in Korea.