Overview
- Local firefighters and the Kusikino Coast Guard began a multi‑agency search after four students were swept from rocks on Friday, with one middle‑school boy rescued and three (two middle‑school, one high‑school) still missing.
- Authorities say the group jumped from a rocky shoreline near Terushima Shrine and were carried offshore by strong currents, prompting patrol boats and crews to continue searches into the following day.
- In a separate case, Nagoya police arrested a 19‑year‑old on suspicion of unlicensed dangerous driving causing injury and hit‑and‑run for a crash on August 26 that injured another motorist.
- The Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare announced a special rule to start in January that will let qualifying workers have their high‑cost medical expense caps lowered from the month after an income drop instead of the current three‑month wait.
- Regional sports results reported over the weekend include Okinawa Girls finishing runner‑up in the NPB Girls Tournament final, Oonozato winning an 11‑match summer sumo practice series 6–5 over Atamifuji, and Daichi Kamada playing the full match as Crystal Palace lost 1–4 to Manchester City.