As the weather in late Spring lurches from hot and humid to wet and cold, news comes in of plans by the Japanese government to expand its scheme allowing foreign workers with specific skills to live in the country for longer. The Yen temporarily hit an eight-year and four-month low, falling to ¥148 against the Euro on Tokyo’s foreign exchange market yesterday. At the same time as the Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno confirmed that Japan will deploy a PAC-3 'surface-to-air' missile defense system on two Okinawan islands in readiness for new missiles launched from North Korea. And as the political situation in Sudan worsens, Japanese nationals along with their spouses have been airlifted to neighbouring Djibouti aboard a Japanese Self-Defense Forces aircraft on Monday night.

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