Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba clung on Monday even after his coalition suffered what he called an "extremely regrettable" election result, as painful new US tariffs loom.

Three wire ropes hanging carp streamers over the Nade River in Kinokawa City, Wakayama Prefecture have been cut in an act of property damage, police said. According to police, at around 5:50 a.m. on April 20, a passerby called 110, reporting that the wires of the carp streamers were hanging…