Overview

• Osaka Metro announced the July 21 Yumeshima shuttle incident was caused by the autonomous system misrecognizing the vehicle’s position and steering into a central divider, with no injuries reported.
• The crash occurred on the Yumeshima North Overpass at about 30 km/h, with the bus scraping roughly three meters of curb while heading from the Expo site toward the Maishima park-and-ride.
• Nippon Steel Setouchi edged Nippon Express 4–3 in the Urban Corporate Baseball first round, securing the club’s first tournament win in 14 years as manager Masaki Yoneda outdueled his former high school teammate, manager Yukiaki Sawamura.
• Mitsubishi Motors Okazaki beat JR Shikoku 3–1 to reach the second round, with manager Yoshihiko Kajiyama leaning on a planned multi-pitcher rotation and starting two reinforcement hitters from JR Tokai.
• Amid an academic credentials controversy, Ito Mayor Maki Takubo refused to answer questions beyond city-announced items at a regular briefing, prompting a written request from the local press club as she cited prior reporting as the reason and ended the session.