President Shavkat Mirziyoyev met with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on his official visit to Tokyo on December 19, the presidential press service said.

An agreement was signed between the National Project Management Agency (NPMA) under the President of Uzbekistan and the Ministry of Security and Public Administration of the Republic of Korea on the establishment of Uzbek-Korean E-government and Digital Economy Cooperation Center In Sejong (Republic of Korea) Tuesday.

According to unconfirmed date, Uzbekistan authorities are planning to toughen punishments for people using the Internet to organize or call for unsanctioned rallies, according to a source close to the Uzbek government.

The President Shavkat Mirziyoyev at the Akasaka residence in Tokyo met with the President of the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) Shinichi Kitaoka, the presidential press service said.

The bodies of 6 people were recovered after a tunnel at the construction site of the Yunusabad metro line collapsed in Tashkent, the Ministry of Emergency Situations said.

On the third day of the official visit to Japan, the President of Uzbekistan, Shavkat Mirziyoyev met with the Speaker of the House of Representatives of Japan, Tadamori Oshima.

On December 18, Uzbekistan delegation headed by the Chairman of the Senate, Tanzila Norboeva attended the 9th plenary session of the Parliamentary Assembly of Turkic-speaking countries.

The President Shavkat Mirziyoyev held a meeting with executives of Japanese financial institutions and companies such as JETRO, JICA, JABIC, NEDO, JOGMEC, Mitsubishi, Itochu, Sumitomo, Marubeni and Isuzu in Tokyo, the presidential press service said.

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev today at the Akasaka residence in Tokyo hosted the Japanese Deputy PM/Minister of Finance, Taro Aso, the presidential press service said.

The opening of the all-weather Amirsoy resort in the mountains of the Bostanlyk district of Tashkent province will take place on December 21. The resort will offer skiing in winter and cycling, hiking and swimming in the summer, said the Deputy PM, Aziz Abdukhakimov at a press conference Tuesday.

Sudden ground collapse accident occurred today at the contruction site of the Tashkent’s Yunusabad metro extension line. The cave-in happened early in the morning due to heavy rainfalls, with no information available if there were any casualties.

Nagoya University was the next destination of the official visit of President Shavkat Mirziyoev to Japan. Today, the Nagoya university has more than 16,000 students. There are over 1600 international students (150 undergraduate) from 78 countries studying in the faculties of Nagoya University, while Uzbekistan is represented by more than 30 students, with a total of over 400 Uzbek students and researchers graduated Nagoya University.

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev yesterday arrived in Nagoya, which is listed as the first destination in the program of his official visit to Japan, the presidential press service said.

Human Rights Watch (HRW) says that after taking "some steps" toward reforming Uzbekistan, President Shavkat Mirziyoev has not extended this "reform spirit" to this month’s elections.

Gulnor Sulaymonova, member of Uzbekistan Kurash Team, was suspended for four years, after she was positive for the presence of the prohibited substance, metabolite following an in-competition test at the Kurash World Cup in South Korea.

The Trump administration plans to publish a new U.S. strategy for Central Asia as China and Russia fight for influence in the energy-rich region and militants from Afghanistan threaten to destabilize it, a senior State Department official has said.

The senators at the 25th plenary meeting approved amendments to the Criminal Code, according to which administrative forcing to labour and the use of child labour at hazardous sites, committed repeatedly, shall be classified as a criminal offense.

The Uzbekistan-Japan business forum was held in Tokyo yesterday, ahead of the visit of the President Shanvkat Mirziyoyev to Japan. Executives of more than 500 Japanese companies and organizations attended the event, the Ministry of Investment and Foreign Trade said in a statement.

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev signed a resolution “aimed at ensuring the supremacy of the Constitution and the Law", Komil Allamjonov, director of the Agency for Information and Mass Communications (AIMC), said in his Telegram channel.

The Chairman of the Central Election Commission, Mirzo-Ulugbek Abdusalomov at a meeting with a delegation of observers from the IPA CIS spoke about the new legislation, explaining why some provisions were amended or postponed.