Overview
- Police in Ibusuki, Kagoshima are trying to identify two bodies found after a wooden single‑story house burned down and are investigating the cause of the fire.
- Authorities in Kitakyushu are probing a top‑floor condominium blaze that fully destroyed a 15th‑floor unit with an air‑conditioning unit suspected as the ignition source.
- Sapporo East Police opened a criminal investigation after a man in his 60s reported losing ¥12.7 million to an SNS investment scam in which the attacker impersonated entrepreneur Takafumi Horie.
- Tokyo police and the National Police Agency are verifying a PFLP statement that Japan Red Army member Kozo Okamoto died in Lebanon and have not confirmed the claim.
- Former Northern Territories residents held a shipboard memorial voyage from Nemuro because visa‑free visits remain blocked and regional leaders are responding to a new vice‑capital law as cities pursue formal designation.