The governor of Akita prefecture pleaded for help after a bear killed one person and injured three other people amid a record number of attacks across the country this year.
Two suspects with histories of jewel thefts had been tracked for days after their DNA was recovered from the museum and were arrested shortly before one of them was set to board a flight out of the country, a police official told NBC News.
The White House has imposed a total tariff rate of 50% on Brazilian products, citing the criminal prosecution of former President Jair Bolsonaro, a Trump ally.
The Chinese state media report, which Taiwan denounced as a propaganda ploy, came days before President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping are due to meet in South Korea.