Overview
- JR West told bereaved families at a Nov. 8 meeting in Takarazuka that the preservation facility for the 2005 Amagasaki derailment cars will be completed in mid-December and that relatives will be guided to the site.
- With the Tokyo Deaflympics opening on Nov. 15, Japan’s men’s and women’s deaf football teams held warm‑up friendlies in Fukushima as final preparations continued.
- Wheelchair curling mixed‑doubles world champions Aki Ogawa and Yoji Nakashima said they are preparing for Milan–Cortina after being provisionally named to Japan’s Paralympic team.
- Japan’s national rugby team lost 10–41 to world No. 3 Ireland in a test match played in Dublin.
- Taiwanese media reported the re‑arrest in Taipei of an Iwate prefectural employee previously detained in June on suspicion of upskirt photography.