Overview

• Shohei Ohtani notched two hits in his first multi-hit game in nine contests, but the Dodgers fell 1–9 for their first four-game losing streak since May as Yoshinobu Yamamoto exited early, and sumo wrestlers step up training ahead of the July 13 Nagoya basho at the new IG Arena.
• Sendai Shirayuri Women’s University will admit male students from April 2027 to counter enrollment declining to about 600 against a 1,130-seat capacity.
• Miyagi Governor Yoshihiro Murai asserted that Japan must welcome foreign residents to address acute labor shortages and counter restrictive proposals ahead of the July 20 Upper House election.
• A 60-year-old defendant pleaded guilty to indecent assault at Nagano District Court, and a Tsuruga city inquiry found power harassment contributed to an official’s suicide.
• Authorities issued heavy rain warnings for Akusekijima as landslide risks rise, are probing a Tokyo bus-trailer collision that injured 12, and arrested three suspects in a ¥79.5 million investment-fraud ring.