Overview
- A Tokyo district court ordered a Kofu city councilor to pay ¥1.1 million for outing writer Li Qin‑feng, a rare judicial award recognizing non‑consensual disclosure of a person’s transgender history and private images.
- Kyoto prosecutors appealed a district court’s not‑guilty verdict in the 2013 shooting of the CEO of Ohsho Food Service, seeking review at the Osaka High Court after the lower court said reasonable doubt remained.
- The Consumer Affairs Agency ordered about ¥441 million in surcharges on four Iida Group housing subsidiaries for using unreliable surveys to claim “customer satisfaction No.1,” enforcing the Act against Unjustifiable Premiums and Misleading Representations.
- Kanagawa prefectural authorities disclosed and addressed an incident at the prefectural Nanasawa care home in which a staff member put a bucket over a resident’s head, apologized to the family and launched an internal probe to assess safeguarding failures.
- Central and local governments advanced economic and social plans this week including a government‑backed Okinawa medical and bio cluster aiming to double local firms to 200 over ten years and an image plan for a 2027 income‑linked support payment that would include a limited child‑care addition.