Overview

• U.S. media reported Trump will host House Speaker Mike Johnson, Senate GOP leader John Thune, House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer to discuss averting a partial shutdown.
• With the fiscal year ending Sept. 30, there is still no clear path for a stopgap funding bill as partisan divisions have hardened.
• JA Group Kyoto chairman Yasuhiro Nakagawa denied tax evasion allegations and said he filed a Sept. 25 review request with the National Tax Tribunal.
• Reports citing the Osaka Regional Tax Bureau say related firms were found to have concealed about 500 million yen in income over seven years and were hit with roughly 500 million yen in additional taxes including heavy penalties, parts of which were treated as Nakagawa’s personal underreporting.
• Tonaki Village in Okinawa re-elected former mayor Suguru Momohara with 121 votes, defeating the incumbent by 16 votes on 88.72% turnout, as the LDP leadership race enters its final week with Koizumi and Takaichi seen as running close and a runoff viewed as likely, and a Naha council survey found more members judged a councilor’s anti-trans remarks problematic than not.