Overview
- Chief Cabinet Secretary Minoru Kihara said the government is concerned about rapid, one-directional yen depreciation and is watching for disorderly moves with high vigilance.
- The Japan Coast Guard confirmed four China Coast Guard vessels equipped with deck guns operating in the contiguous zone near the Senkaku Islands for a sixth straight day, issuing warnings to keep them from Japan’s waters.
- The Nagoya High Court’s Kanazawa branch set November 28 for decisions on residents’ provisional injunction appeals seeking to halt Kansai Electric’s Mihama No. 3 and Takahama Nos. 1–4 reactors.
- U.S. President Donald J. Trump hosted Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman at the White House with lavish treatment, securing large U.S. investment pledges as the 2018 journalist murder issue was effectively sidelined in public remarks.
- Aichi prefectural police arrested a 42-year-old yakuza-affiliated executive and a 28-year-old woman after finding 194 cannabis plants at a residence, seizing cultivation equipment and making arrests under drug laws.