Overview
- Fukagawa Police arrested a 37-year-old man from Okazaki, Aichi, on Dec. 6 on suspicion of abducting a minor, with no subsequent legal updates reported.
- Nobel laureate Shimon Sakaguchi of Osaka University visited the Nobel Museum on Dec. 6 (Japan time) and donated manga artwork featuring a character representing regulatory T cells.
- Sapporo’s Youth Science Museum hosted the 10th Science Plaza on Dec. 6, where middle and high school science club members introduced experiments and crafts to children.
- High school students from Hokkaido and Aomori presented research posters and exchanged questions at the Science Education Forum in Hakodate on Dec. 6.
- Regional life on Dec. 7 included the Asahikawa-branch tag rugby qualifier in Higashikagura with three teams competing for prefectural berths, the Otaru Santa Run with about 30 participants, Yubari Taiko’s 55th-anniversary concert drawing roughly 300 people, and keirin rider Minato Nakaishi expressing resolve ahead of the Dec. 28 Young Grand Prix.