Overview
- Tokyo’s Metropolitan Police warned of a rise in motorcycle fatalities and ran a speed-reduction outreach in Edogawa Ward, citing frequent right-turn versus straight-through intersection crashes.
- The anti-gang division arrested three men, including Keito Yamasaka, on suspicion of confining and coercing a man at Haneda Airport in June in a case tied to the large scouting group known as Natural.
- Aichi Prefectural Police reported seizing 194 cannabis plants and arresting a Yokohama-based yakuza-affiliated figure and a woman on drug charges.
- The Nagoya High Court’s Kanazawa branch will issue a ruling on Nov. 28 in residents’ provisional injunction cases seeking to halt operations at Mihama Unit 3 and Takahama Units 1–4.
- Hokkaido authorities cautioned drivers after widespread icy roads and multiple slip accidents in Sapporo, and a central Asahikawa fire spread to an adjacent building with no injuries reported.