Overview
- Japan Post faced additional administrative suspensions in Hokkaido as the transport bureau ordered 15 light vans across eight post offices off the road for inadequate alcohol checks.
- Tomakomai police reported provisional special-fraud losses of about ¥35.5 million for January–November 2025, roughly 5.5 times the prior year, and warned that officers do not show badges over video calls or contact via social media.
- Hisamitsu Pharmaceutical said President Kazue Nakatomi, through a family asset-management company, plans to acquire all shares and take the firm private in a management buyout valued at around ¥400 billion.
- A special committee’s report on misconduct in Fukui detailed a culture that discouraged reporting and left complaints about former governor Tatsuharu Sugimoto’s sexual harassment unaddressed by management.
- Separate developments included Hyogo assembly member Kenichi Okutani filing a ¥11 million defamation suit in Kobe against party leader Takashi Tachibana, while community responses advanced with a nurse-accompanied demand transport service targeting a 2027 launch and new food-rescue donation boxes in Bihoro.