Overview

• Yokohama’s mayor expressed surprise at reports that Nissan is considering selling its stake in the Yokohama F. Marinos operating company, saying the club should continue and community benefits must be protected, with the Kanagawa governor pledging coordination on potential economic impacts.
• Takeshi Niinami resigned as representative director of Keizai Doyukai after stepping down as Suntory Holdings chairman following police scrutiny tied to supplements, putting the group’s leadership selection and public voice in focus.
• Tokyo police arrested a 40-year-old suspect after a woman in her 70s was fatally stabbed in a Machida apartment, with investigators indicating she was attacked as she returned home.
• A two-story wooden house collapsed in Tokyo’s Suginami Ward with no injuries reported, and Hokkaido police are investigating a special-fraud case in which a man in his 70s lost 3.32 million yen to impostors.
• Agriculture Minister Koizumi publicly demanded corrections to what he called misleading coverage of the LDP leadership race, while Takarazuka named Onosai Yui the next Snow Troupe top daughter-role and two wrestlers earned promotion to jūryō for November’s Kyushu basho.