Overview
- Rescue teams saved one middle-school boy who was conscious and in stable condition while patrol vessels and local fire crews continue sea and shore searches for two middle-schoolers and one high-schooler reported missing on August 28.
- The incident took place near the rocky swimming and jumping spots by Terushima Shrine in Ichiki-Kushikino, where local forecasts had warned of larger swells though no formal wave advisories were in force.
- In a separate case, Nagoya police arrested a 19-year-old man on August 28 on suspicion of unlicensed dangerous driving causing injury and hit-and-run for a crash that occurred in the early hours of August 26.
- The Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare confirmed a special measure to let qualifying insured workers with sudden income drops receive a lower high-cost medical expense cap from the next month, with the rule set to start in January.
- On the sports and policy fronts: Bolton signed midfielder Atsuki Ito to a three-year deal, Crystal Palace players Daichi Kamada and Takehiro Tomiyasu featured in a 1–4 loss to Manchester City, Okinawa Girls finished runners-up in the NPB Girls final, and a Diet bill to provide lump-sum relief to surviving air-raid victims lapsed without committee debate.