Overview

• Yomiuri published a verification report on its August 27 front‑page error and cited a reporter’s assumptions and failed editorial checks, announcing pay givebacks for two senior editors and suspensions for desk leaders and the reporter.
• The paper misidentified lower house member Taku Ikeshita as a Tokyo prosecutors’ target when raids actually concerned upper house member Akira Ishii, and it pledged steps to help restore Ikeshita’s reputation.
• At the Ranran group home site in Iwaizumi, Iwate, families and staff marked nine years since Typhoon No.10 as the operator acknowledged having no flood evacuation plan and vowed to prevent a recurrence.
• Iwate officials reiterated a toll of 28 deaths including related deaths and one missing from the 2016 disaster, with additional casualties reported in Hokkaido.
• The 96th Urban Baseball Tournament began at Tokyo Dome, with JFE West beating Honda Suzuka 5–2 and SUBARU defeating Tokyo Gas 8–3, as JFE East’s Renya Omori homered and Honda’s manager voiced hopes to lift disaster‑hit hometowns.