Most broadcasters gave top play to reports that England’s Leicester City Football Club, which Shinji Okazaki plays for, secured a miraculous Premier League title for the first time in its 132-year history.
Major front-page items in Tuesday morning’s national papers were updates on the Kumamoto earthquakes, including reports that local farms suffered 76.7 billion yen in property damage; Supreme Court Chief Justice Terada’s apology to former leprosy patients over the decades-long practice of holding their trials in isolated facilities due to unfounded fears of contagion; and the yen’s rapid rise against the dollar and its negative effects on Japanese exporters.