Japan's Princess Aiko, the daughter of Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako, will visit Laos in November. The trip is expected to be her first official overseas visit.

East Japan Railway Company says broken overhead wires were the likely cause for the trouble that led to a full suspension of the Yamanote Line loop railway service in central Tokyo on Friday morning.

North Korea's law-enforcement authorities have reportedly begun procedures to investigate and restrain senior officials of a shipyard in relation to a failed warship launch earlier this week.