NHK led with a report that Osaka Prefecture may not to approve Moritomo Gakuen’s application to establish a new grade school due to inconsistencies in figures for construction costs in the documents submitted. All commercial networks led with reports that the head of the school told reporters on Thursday that there were no inconsistencies in the documents.

Main front-page items in national papers included updates on the Moritomo Gakuen scandal and an ongoing drill in the East China Sea involving a U.S. carrier strike group and MSDF ships.