Overview
- The U.S. Senate voted 51–45 to block a motion to proceed on a Republican stopgap funding bill, the tenth such failure, leaving a partial federal shutdown in place that requires 60 votes to advance.
- Former prime minister Tomiichi Murayama died at 101 on Oct. 17, according to associates, having led the 1994 coalition government that reshaped Japan’s postwar political landscape.
- Tournament organizers said Naomi Osaka withdrew from the Japan Open singles quarterfinal due to a left leg injury sustained in her Oct. 15 match.
- Muroran police are investigating after a woman in her 70s in Hokkaido’s Iburi region lost about ¥18.9 million to callers posing as Osaka prefectural police in an electronic-computer fraud case.
- Hyogo Prefectural Assembly’s General Affairs Committee again deferred a vote on an ordinance to cut Governor Motohiko Saito’s pay linked to a private information leak issue.