Overview
- At the Imperial Palace’s Matsuno‑ma on Nov. 3, eight recipients including baseball icon Sadaharu Oh, 85, and Nobel chemistry laureate Susumu Kitagawa, 74, received the Culture Decoration from the Emperor.
- Akita prefectural police said a 79-year-old woman was found dead in mountain woodland in Yuzawa on Nov. 3 with severe facial injuries, and they suspect a bear attack after she reportedly went mushroom picking.
- A house fire around 1 a.m. on Nov. 3 in Enjoji, Kasamatsu Town, Gifu Prefecture, left a 74-year-old male resident with burns to both hands; he is hospitalized without life‑threatening injuries as police examine the cause.
- Reporting from the United Kingdom said two people were critically injured in a stabbing on a train and two men in their 30s were arrested on suspicion of attempted murder.
- In Kanoya, Kagoshima, a joint memorial on Nov. 2 honored war dead including 1,271 kamikaze personnel, drawing about 550 bereaved family members.