Overview

• Tokyo High Court overturned a denial of benefits by recognizing a former Shibuya ward employee’s depression as a work‑related injury after Fukushima reconstruction duties, in a ruling dated September 24 and reported September 29.
• Prosecutors’ special investigations unit plans an at‑home indictment of former Upper House member Akira Ishii over alleged public secretary salary fraud, according to reports on September 30.
• The Japan Fair Trade Commission conducted on‑site inspections into suspected bid‑rigging in Metropolitan Expressway road‑cleaning contracts, targeting multiple companies on September 30.
• Keizai Doyukai representative Tsuyoshi Niinami resigned after the group’s ethics panel deemed a resignation recommendation appropriate following a police probe related to supplements.
• Gujo city in Gifu Prefecture dismissed a male employee for embezzling 1.28 million yen in subsidies for a local fire brigade and said it will not file a criminal complaint after full restitution.