Overview
- Nagoya’s place in next season’s J1 was secured when Yokohama FC lost, even as the team’s form left it mired in the lower reaches of the table.
- Local reporting says general manager Motohiro Yamaguchi will step down due to poor results, with an announcement expected soon.
- Wheelchair curling mixed doubles world champions Aki Ogawa and Yoji Nakashima were provisionally named to Japan’s Milan–Cortina 2026 Paralympic team after a public practice in Tokyo.
- Suzuki Naba won her first all‑Japan rhythmic gymnastics individual all‑around title with 104.850 points, earning selection for international events including the Aichi–Nagoya Asian Games, and Japan’s deaf football teams held Fukushima friendlies one week before the Tokyo Deaflympics as the women lost 0–6 to Shoji High School.
- Nishio police said a 75‑year‑old woman died after being struck by a car on a straight prefectural road in Aichi, where the driver is believed to have moved left to avoid an oncoming vehicle.