Overview
- Metropolitan Police arrested assistant inspector Daisuke Jinbo on suspicion of leaking investigative camera images to the escort‑scout group “Natural,” with about ¥9 million seized in August now under review for links to the alleged leak.
- Police detained Kinari Kaihatsu, a former gang member who presented himself as a monk, for allegedly selling a revolver and four rounds; a seized weapon was confirmed to be an illegally manufactured gun with lethal capability.
- In the case of a man later found buried in Ibaraki, three suspects including Shogo Umeda and Seiya Kumazaki were arrested on suspicion of confining the victim in June, after investigators documented a threatening call to a woman linked to the case.
- Prosecutors in Nagoya began a psychiatric detention evaluation for Kumiko Yasufuku, 69, to determine criminal responsibility in a 1999 apartment murder, pausing the usual detention clock while experts assess her mental state.
- China’s defense ministry warned Japan would pay a “tragic price” if it intervened militarily over Taiwan, and the foreign ministry urged Chinese citizens to postpone travel to Japan as both sides lodged formal protests following Takaichi’s Diet testimony.