Overview

• Tokyu confirmed a contact between an in-service and a deadhead train at Kajigaya Station around 11 p.m. on October 5, with no injuries reported and Den-en-toshi Line service still suspended between Shibuya and Saginuma without a restart timetable.
• Visible scratches and dents were seen on affected cars as MLIT and Tokyu investigated the incident that halted a high-capacity commuter corridor serving Greater Tokyo.
• Nanjo Mayor Keishun Koja dissolved the city council after it passed a no-confidence motion tied to a third-party finding of multiple sexual-harassment acts; a city election must be held within 40 days and he could be removed if a newly elected council again passes no-confidence under statutory thresholds.
• LDP leader Sanae Takaichi is preparing to unveil a new party executive as early as October 7, with NHK reporting intentions to name Taro Aso to a senior role and Keiji Furuya as election strategy chair, and Aso meeting Kokumin Minshu’s secretary-general for talks on possible coordination.
• Police in Akita said a man in his 70s was bitten by a bear during farm work in Misato and suffered minor injuries, while separate reporting from Hokkaido Shimbun said an estimated 900,000 people fled Gaza City during a recent Israeli operation amid widespread infrastructure damage.