The following is the latest list of selected news summaries by Kyodo News.
NAHA, Japan - A helicopter from a China Coast Guard ship violated Japanese airspace close to the Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea on Saturday, the Japanese Defense Ministry said, making it the fourth airspace intrusion by Beijing.
The helicopter took off from one of the four Chinese coast guard ships that entered Japan's territorial waters around the Senkakus from around 12:20 p.m., the Japan Coast Guard said. The uninhabited islets are controlled by Japan but claimed by China, which calls them Diaoyu.
Japan PM Ishiba vows to work to revise Constitution, yet momentum low
TOKYO - Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba on Saturday expressed his desire to seek the country's first-ever revision of the pacifist Constitution, as Japan marked the 78th anniversary of its coming into force with no clear political momentum toward such a move.
In a video message to a pro-reform gathering, Ishiba said his "top priorities" on constitutional amendment will be including an explicit reference to the Self-Defense Forces and introducing an emergency clause to give more power to the Cabinet at a time of a major disasters.
TOKYO - Japan has no intention of striking a trade deal with the U.S. administration of President Donald Trump unless all of its new tariffs are reviewed, top negotiator Ryosei Akazawa indicated Saturday as he returned to Japan following the second round of ministerial-level tariff talks in Washington.
"We have pressed the United States to reconsider all of the series of tariff measures and we cannot reach an agreement if that is not properly addressed in a package," Akazawa told reporters after meeting Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba to discuss the outcome of the negotiations.
Albanese's ruling Labor party wins Australia election
SYDNEY - Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese declared victory for his center-left Labor Party in Saturday's general election, with the leader of the Liberal-National coalition Peter Dutton conceding defeat.
Speaking to the party faithful in Sydney's Inner West on Saturday night, Albanese declared Labor had won a majority government in the election, with the Australian Broadcasting Corp. projecting the government will be returned with an increased majority based on preliminary results.
Ex-minister Kim becomes S. Korean conservatives' presidential pick
SEOUL - South Korea's conservative People Power Party on Saturday picked former Employment and Labor Minister Kim Moon Soo as its candidate in the June 3 presidential election after he won the party's primary, positioning him as the rival of the main opposition Democratic Party candidate Lee Jae Myung.
Kim won 56.53 percent of the vote in the final round of the party's primary -- the results of which were released Saturday -- defeating former party leader Han Dong Hoon who received 43.47 percent. The pair had come on top in the first two rounds of the primary last month in which eight candidates originally ran.
WASHINGTON - The U.S. administration of President Donald Trump on Saturday imposed a new 25 percent tariff on key auto parts such as engines, in another blow to Japan's mainstay car industry already slapped with the same rate of tariff on automobiles.
However, in a bid to ease the impact of the tariffs on the auto industry, the Trump administration has taken steps to help manufacturers relocate supply chains for car parts used in the United States over the next two years.
TOKYO - Osaka Marvelous won the inaugural women's title of Japanese volleyball's rebranded SV.League on Saturday, defeating NEC Red Rockets Kawasaki in Game 2 of the best-of-three final.
Lise Van Hecke nailed a spike on match point as the Marvelous followed Friday's Game 1 win with a 25-22, 25-21, 25-16 victory at Ariake Arena in Tokyo.
YOKOHAMA - A man in his 20s was taken in for voluntary questioning by police on Saturday, after the skeletal remains of his former girlfriend were found in his home near Tokyo, investigative sources said.
The man, who had been warned by the police for stalking 20-year-old Asahi Okazaki before she went missing in December, returned to Japan from overseas Saturday afternoon, they said.
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