NHK gave top play to a report on Prime Minister Abe’s meetings with German Chancellor Merkel on Sunday and French President Hollande on Monday, during which the premier confirmed the importance of free trade. All commercial networks led with reports on former Tokyo Governor’s Ishihara’s testimony as a sworn witness at the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly on the purchase of land from Tokyo Gas to relocate the Tsukiji fish market to Toyosu.

Major front-page items in national dailies included former Governor Ishihara’s testimony at the Tokyo assembly and a Japan-Russia 2+2 foreign and defense ministers’ meeting in Tokyo yesterday.