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HIROSHIMA -- Experts discussed ways to realize a world free of nuclear weapons at a symposium in Hiroshima held Saturday by The Yomiuri Shimbun ahead of a Group of Seven summit in the city in May.

The Group of Seven nations are expected to agree on basic principles for trading greenhouse gas emission reductions at a ministerial meeting in Sapporo on Saturday and Sunday, The Yomiuri Shimbun has learned.

The government plans to establish a council to promote domestic production of autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs), also known as underwater drones, according to an intermediate plan seen by The Yomiuri Shimbun on the government's strategy for such craft.

Patterns have been detected in the movements of China Coast Guard vessels sailing off the Senkaku Islands. The ships have been entering Japan's territorial waters off the Senkakus as if carrying out "regular patrols" at specific times of the day and chasing after Japanese fishing boats if they are in…

The government intends to tighten the screening process for the establishment of new private universities, to curb the overall number of universities, the Yomiuri Shimbun has learned.

KYIV -- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy emphasized that the entire international order is under threat from the Russian aggression against his country in an exclusive interview with The Yomiuri Shimbun on Thursday. Zelenskyy's distrust of a 12-point proposal made by China was also evident.

SEOUL -- South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol fondly recalled childhood memories of visits to Japan to see his father, an economist who attended Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo in the late 1960s, in an exclusive interview with The Yomiuri Shimbun in Seoul on Tuesday.

SEOUL -- South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol has expressed his desire to resume periodic reciprocal visits between Japanese and South Korean leaders, in an exclusive interview with The Yomiuri Shimbun.