Overview
- Search-and-recovery operations continued on Thursday after Typhoon 25 dropped record rain on Chiba and Kanagawa, leaving at least ten people dead, four missing and large areas still inundated.
- JR East suspended many services and warned that restoration on some North and Boso Peninsula segments could take several months, disrupting commuters after the holiday weekend.
- An ANA Boeing 737 (NH1502) returned to Naha on Sept. 23 after right-engine trouble, all 158 people evacuated down slides, three sustained minor injuries and the Transport Ministry has classed the event as a major incident with the transport safety board opening a probe.
- The justice system and police oversight saw fresh accountability moves as the Tokyo District Court sentenced a former lawyer to six years for embezzling about ¥160 million and a former Metropolitan Police officer admitted leaking gambling-related investigation information at his first trial.
- Political realignment in the Diet produced a new opposition grouping named '中道' that preserved the largest opposition bloc with 47 members and appointed Yuichi Goto as the party's Diet negotiator, a change that will affect strategy in the upcoming extraordinary session.